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philo
climber
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I say they nominate Joe the Plumber. They are headed down the drain as it is.
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dirtbag
climber
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McCarthy just withdrew his candidacy for speaker, according to the Washington post.
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dirtbag
climber
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The House GOP is one big mess.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Just read that. That's a surprise. I think the Benghazi flub must have sunk him.
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dirtbag
climber
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He probably just spared himself months or years of heartburn and scorn.
I have no idea why any sane person would want that sh#t job.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Why stress out about the name of the next speaker. Suffice to know that he'll be unqualified and have marching orders to oppose any and every move of Obama.
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dirtbag
climber
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Spud, freedom first, or whatever name you use: do you even care about facts?
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Norton
Social climber
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with McCarthy gone the door is open for a hard line Tea Party White Male to take over
and being true to his principles and beholden to the Freedom Caucus bleachers clan,
look for a serious US Government shut down after Dec 11 comes and goes
even though, since 1978, no Federal Funds can be spent on abortion, Planned Parenthood
along with healthcare for millions of low and middle income American women, will be the
reason for the shut down: - my way or the highway, defund PP or we shut it down
and maybe that will be a good thing, take it as far as no SS checks going out, military contractors not being paid, and maybe even default on some US Debt payments
and in the end, just like last time and the time before that, the House Republicans will
have to cave and fund the government while at the same time driving the urgency of their
own demise deeper in their own hearts with the American public
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dirtbag
climber
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I worry about them playing chicken with the debt ceiling again.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) summed up the feelings of his soon-to-be-former colleagues in one line: "Well, that was a surprise."
/sarcasm
Ho, man...that's feckin' hilarious.
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Spud, freedom first, or whatever name you use: do you even care about facts?
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Iraq and Syrian now run by Islamofascists thanks to Obama pulling out of Iraq and abandoning Syria.
That would be Reaguns bailing out of that region after getting 270 marines killed in a hotel.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Wa Post:
you are Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio or John Kasich, what happened on Thursday in Washington should put a lump in your throat.
The Republican establishment has been operating for months -- really since the rise of Trump -- under a belief that, eventually, things will return to "normal" and that the party will put forward an establishment candidate for president.
That was the same wrong-headed thinking I heard constantly in the run-up to today's speaker vote:
Yeah, sure, conservatives weren't sold on McCarthy, but the alternatives weren't any good or serious, and so he would win.
Nope.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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So, one of the biggest parts of this story are not being reported:
The reason he quit was because he became convinced that he could not get the majority of votes needed ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
He WAS sure that he could get the majority of the votes in the caucus, making him the Repub nominee.
But then one has to go to the ENTIRE House to be elected. The Repubs have the majority, so whoever they put up will automatically win.......
EXCEPT if the nutjobs choose not to vote, vote "present", or vote for anyone else....so who wins????
NANCY PELOSI! Who is the nominee that every democrat will vote for. If there are insufficient Repug votes to elect the Repug nominee, she will win!
So these suicidal crazies would rather have Nancy Pelosi, than McCarthy.
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Norton
Social climber
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NANCY PELOSI! Who is the nominee that every democrat will vote for. If there are insufficient Repug votes to elect the Repug nominee, she will win!
Ken, the new House Speaker would have to have a simple majority to be elected
and so even if ALL the Dems voted for her which they would she would still need quite a
few Repubs to also vote for her, that even one would is highly unlikely
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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No Norton. All that would have to happen is enough tinfoil hats to stage a protest vote, robbing the Repugs of a majority vote, and it would happen.
If you look at all the articles on this, McCarthy states he withdrew because he finally understood that he could not get a majority on the floor of the house.....that's exactly what I'm talking about.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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The world is in flames -- with Iraq and Syrian now run by Islamofascists thanks to Obama pulling out of Iraq and abandoning Syria.
Our economy -- in Obama's 7th year -- still sucks, with black unemployment and those not in the workforce at record highs, and Obamacare sucking the life out of small businesses.
Yeah, bring back W! He knows how to start and fight a war!! And after 8 years of his economic brilliance, look at what he got us.
{fools, I tell ya...}
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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This episode is reason #214 why you should never vote for a Republican.
WASHINGTON — Republicans expanded their numbers in the House and won the Senate in 2014 by asking voters to give them control of Congress and let them prove that they could govern the country. Right now they appear unable to govern themselves. Some Republicans worried that the current unraveling might be even worse than 1998, which played out in a crisis atmosphere as the House was voting to impeach President Bill Clinton. "Even then we knew we could resolve it ourselves,” said Representative Pete King, Republican of New York. “But now you have a situation where there are 30 or 40 people in their own party who say they are not going to vote for anyone no matter who it is. We have to end this. We look absolutely crazy.”
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