Boehner to Resign in October

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by bobabode

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...unning-asylum/

The inimitable Charlie Pierce...

"Welcome to the monkeyhouse, America. The prion disease afflicting the Republican party finally has devoured the last vestiges of the Republican party's higher functions. I had as many problems with Boehner as Speaker as anyone did, but, dammit, he at least believed that the government should keep running. And, as much as the Times wants to believe it, this has nothing to do with the "challenges of divided government," and everything to do with the fact that the modern Republican party, especially in the House of Representatives, is completely demented."

Interesting.

You all are clearly more in tune with politics than I am.

When it comes to Republican party rhetoric my mind keeps flashing back to an old article on religious camps, as in summer camps for kids. Someone, somewhere, discovered that people want a serious, quiet, and contemplative forum. How that compares with the latest polls I have no idea. But the article stuck with me because serious, quiet, and contemplative is what I hoped for in the Republican party. Instead the party got noisier until I had to leave; not just the party, but politics in general.

It will be a while until I vote again.