Showing posts with label speaker of the house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speaker of the house. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2015

GOP Desperately Seeking a House Speaker

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All Over and Not Crying ~ John Boehner Resigns

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Speaker of the House John Boehner resigned after the Pope visited Washington and the result has been utter chaos among Republicans. The heir-apparent to Boehner was supposed to be Kevin McCarthy, but he made the mistake of being really honest (a rarity in Congress) and admitted they targeted Hillary Clinton with the Benghazi Committee:















Also a smear campaign was happening on social media saying he committed adultery with married Congresswoman Renee Ellmers of North Carolina.




Last week McCarthy realized he didn't have the votes to become Speaker and decided to pull his name in a surprise announcement. Congress and the beltway press were shocked! SHOCKED!





The Presidential Candidates React:
























Then in a complete show of madness, people started asking Paul Ryan to step up and become Speaker. In response, he acted as though they had tossed him a radioactive hand grenade. He said he would think about it over the weekend - we'll see what Monday brings.











Here's what's happening in the Stupid Party:

From Business Insider
Confusion reigned across the party. One Republican aide told Business Insider on Thursday, "I honestly have no idea" of the caucus' next move. Another echoed that sentiment. Yet another had similar thoughts, though the aide simply sent Business Insider the emoticon commonly referred to as a "shruggie," that signals a shrug: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
"Thunderdome," Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative activist and the editor in chief of the site RedState, told Business Insider.

From Addicting Info:
Currently, a small faction of Tea Party extremists in Congress is wreaking havoc and chaos at every possible turn. These 40 republican politicians, all members of the House Freedom Caucus, have decided to hold their fellow Republicans, and likely the entire country, hostage to their fanatical demands. Every seemingly-sane member of Congress has been targeted by these far-right nuts, who have absolutely no clue how to govern.
This is the group that orchestrated the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner. They went after Republican colleagues, Renee Ellmers and Kevin McCarthy, when it looked as if McCarthy had a good chance of becoming the next speaker.
Sane conservatives, scrambling to save the party from a now inevitable implosion, have been begging Paul Ryan to put in a bid for speaker. Although Ryan has repeatedly said that he is not going to run, far right extremists are now attacking him, apparently just for being mentioned as a possibility.




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Sunday, September 27, 2015

All Over and Not Crying ~ John Boehner Resigns

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Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker 2015
GOP Seeks New Oompa-Loompa to Replace Boehner

The day after the Pope visited Congress, John Boehner turned in his resignation as Speaker of the House. And he suddenly looked like a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders, striding in to his press conference singing "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah."

What happens now? The far-right conservative jackals such as Ted Cruz are thrilled because they have called Boehner a "traitor" and "RINO" for making deals with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. But let's see if the monstrous Tea Party can do any better without Boehner to kick around anymore. Probably not.

From CNN:

Boehner had wanted to end his run last year, but was concerned about destabilizing the House Republican caucus. He was ready to announce his resignation on his birthday this November. But Friday, one day after the emotional, historic visit by Pope Francis to Capitol Hill, Boehner found his moment.
"I decided today is the day I'm going to do this, simple as that," Boehner said at a Capitol Hill press conference, saying his decision came after a night of sleep and prayers.
. . . The timing may have been right for Boehner -- but it stunned the House GOP Conference Friday morning, which had been meeting to discuss a way forward on funding legislation. Boehner made the announcement -- and choked up. Others did too.
"A lot of grown men and women were crying, especially those who know him the most," said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-New York.





From New York Times
Of course Boehner couldn’t last: He’s an adult. And as Donald Trump’s perverse currency and a Republican nominating contest that’s often indistinguishable from a temper tantrum demonstrate, the qualities of maturity, steadiness and prudence aren’t in especially big favor right now with an animated, engaged and frighteningly influential segment of the Republican electorate.
. . . “He’s somebody who understands that in government — in governance — you don’t get 100 percent of what you want,” President Obama said on Friday at the White House, reflecting on the fresh news that Boehner was leaving. “But you have to work with people who you disagree with, sometimes strongly, in order to do the people’s business.” Obama and Boehner were hardly a study in “Kumbaya” cooperation, but Obama seemed to sense that the song sung by whoever follows Boehner will be sourer and more strident.
Brace for it.

From The Hill
A fired-up House Ethics Committee Chairman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), speaking not long after Boehner dropped the bombshell at a Friday conference meeting that he’ll leave Congress at the end of next month, ripped into hard-line conservatives.
He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn, and noted they have “never had a horse of their own.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.
Leadership allies are frustrated by what they see as a repeated exercise in futility.
They argue that the lawmakers who repeatedly tangled with Boehner aren’t team players, and they said a new leadership team shouldn’t cater to them.




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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

John Boehner Re-elected House Speaker 2015

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John Boehner, R-Ohio, has been re-elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.













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Louie Gohmert Runs for Speaker of the House

From Huffington Post:
In the final tally, Boehner received the votes of 216 House members, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received 164 votes. A number of discontented Republicans, however, voted for other candidates, including Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who, with 12 votes, got the most opposition votes from the GOP.

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Louie Gohmert Runs for Speaker of the House

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Are you serious, Bro? Congressional gadfly and general nuisance Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, is leading the pack of Tea Party Clowns who are challenging John Boehner for Speaker of the House.

This should be entertaining! :)

*Popcorn Time*

Via KENS5, San Antonio, Texas
"We've heard from a lot of Republicans that, "Gee I'd vote for somebody besides Speaker Boehner, but nobody will put their name out there as running, so there's nobody else to vote for,'" Gohmert said in an appearance on "Fox and Friends" on Sunday morning.

"Well, that changed yesterday, when my friend [Florida Republican Rep.] Ted Yoho said, 'I'm putting my name out there. I'll be a candidate for speaker,'" Gohmert added.
"And I'm putting my name out there also today to be another candidate for speaker."

Gohmert's strategy is to force multiple rounds of voting.
"Eventually the goal is, second, third, fourth round, we have enough people that say, "You know what, it really is time for a change," he said.

Let us cast no aspersions on Louie Gohmert’s asparagus. Neither should we curse his cauliflower, defame his dandelion greens, libel his leeks, slander his spinach, hex his horseradish nor give grief to his garlic. Yet however laudably we treat Gohmert’s legumes, it must be said that he is full of beans if he thinks he is going to be speaker of the House.
~ Dana Milbank on Washington Post

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is throwing her support behind Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House, saying that the GOP needs "new energy."
"I love Louie Gohmert," she said during an interview on Fox News' "Hannity." "I love those Texan politicians who call it like they see it and are true conservatives. So I will be rooting for Louie."
~ Sarah Palin, via Newsmax

Yep, the guy that argued that black people won the right to discriminate against gay people because of Civil Rights, among a whole bunch of other ridiculous, untrue, incorrect and occasionally flat-out disturbing things, is attempting to become Speaker of the House. While we can't vouch for the safety of the country should the stars align to usher Gohmert into the office, we can guarantee that the soundbites coming out of a Gohmert-led House would be epic. When Gohmert announced his candidacy we're pretty sure that even the Fox News anchor interviewing the man was fighting to keep a straight face.
~ Dianna Wray, Houston Press








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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Tea Party Terrorists Take America Hostage - Saturday 9/28

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Excerpt from President's statement 9/27/13
I don’t know how I can be more clear about this. Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. No one gets to hurt our economy and millions of innocent people just because there are a couple of laws that you do not like.
Do not shut down the government. Do not shut down the economy. Pass a budget on time. Pay our bills on time. Refocus on the everyday concerns of the American people.
. . . do not threaten to burn the house down simply because you haven’t gotten 100 percent of your way. That's not how our democracy is supposed to work.



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House Republicans are a classical array of stunned and mystified.
~ Rachel Maddow

So GOP what is your solution?.....*crickets*
~ noelle198 on Huff Post

I am with the President. If the teaparty choses to default, let the pieces fall where they may. 79 Votes in the Senate on a clean funding bill. For the teapots that is over 3/4th of the Senate, and 25 republicans. If the house choses this path, it all falls on them.
~ Delval on Huff Post

Let's hope the GOP is taking it to heart, and Boehner puts a 'clean' CR and a 'clean' raising of the debt ceiling, up for a vote.
If he has the fortitude to do that, there would be enough votes from the dems and the 'sane' repubs, to pass.
It's all up to the Speaker of the House.
~ mae4 on Huff Post

Ted Cruz Now Speaker Of House Of Representatives
~ Headline on Wonkette

For someone trained at one of the nation's top law schools, Cruz seems to be a surprisingly lousy parliamentarian.
~ OneYieldRegular on Wonkette

GOP Descends Into Civil War Over Obamacare As Shutdown Looms
~ Headline on Talking Points Memo

Do not be surprised if the House repubs remove Boehner from his post in the coming days. If that happens all hell will break loose.
~ tbhull on Talking Points Memo

If it were not so scary for the country, the Republican war on Republicans would be delicious.
~ wiz99 on Talking Points Memo

Orville Redenbacher was up +2 7/8 on the news.
~ Trippin on Talking Points Memo


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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Speaker Boehner Says Romney Not Lovable

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Speaker of the House John Boehner made these remarks at a fundraiser in Wheeling, West Virginia, on June 30th.

Via Roll Call
The Ohio Republican made the remarks when an unidentified woman asked during a question-and-answer session: “Can you make me love Mitt Romney?”

“No,” Boehner said. “Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for or against Barack Obama.

“Mitt Romney has some friends, relatives and fellow Mormons ... some people that are going to vote for him. But that’s not what this election is about. This election is going to be a referendum on the president’s failed economic policies.

“Mitt Romney believes, just like we do, that if we’re going to get the economy back, if we’re going to put the American people back to work, we need to fix the tax code, we need to stop the regulatory juggernaut that’s going on in Washington and we need to fix our economy. Solid guy, he’s going to do a great job, even if you don’t fall in love with him.”



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. . . if a weepy romantic like Boehner isn't even going to bother trying to convince you that Mitt might just be the man of your dreams, then it's obviously time to admit that you settled and get on with it. Sure, you can make like Rupert Murdoch and get all publicly pouty, but what's the point? Your fate is sealed, forever intertwined with that of a humor-challenged robot whose religion probably weirds you out. On the plus side, he is very rich, and he's got a great head of hair.
~ New York Magazine

It's sad that his kind of money can't buy love. All he has to show for it are mom jeans and cringe-inducing endorsements.
~ comment on New York Mag by thasswhatImtalkinbout

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HOW long has this guy been in politics?
I mean, it's just 'effing amazing at this point -- it's like they've completely lost track of the concept of inner thoughts vs. speech.
~ comment by kenlac on Daily Kos

Hopefully they will fall in hate with Rmoney instead!
~ comment by ChemBob on Daily Kos

How can Boehner not be charmed by the extraterrestrial from Kolob?
~ comment by spunhard on Daily Kos

To me ...Romney is Our Idiot Brother, and Obama is The King's Speech. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.
~ Movie Producer and Obama money-raiser Harvey Weinstein on Rachel Maddow

The ballots will read:
Obama _____
Romney....I guess _____ sigh
~ comment by SirenforSanity on Huffington Post

Maybe Pawlenty would add charisma to the ticket...
I'm laughing so hard it took like a full minute to type it.
Which raises the larger question...who in the whole darn party now is likable??
~ comment by secular666 on Huff Post































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Why not just nominate Ron Paul instead? Nobody is enthusiastic about Romney. Ron Paul at least has a chance to win in the general election. The Romney campaign is DOA.
~ comment by madonato on CBS News

No one, possibly even Romney, can tell who he is, what he is, what he stands for, and what he would do in the Executive Office. No one should,or can, love a will-o'-the-wisp ghostly light in the night, some smoke, an intangible, shifty phony.
~ comment by haturner on CBS News

Mr. Banner,
There's a reason you can't get people to love Mr. Mitt. It's because they fear he will do the same thing that the Republican George W. did to our country - destroy the economy. Mr. Barack pulled us from the brink of disaster and you can't handle that.
~ comment by shurch4truth on CBS News

Sure they will love Romney.
These are the same idiots that nominated Palin.
~ comment by Post Away on CBS News

i'm waiting to see who makes the ballot.
~ comment by torchbearer on the Ron Paul Forums

With respect--John Boehner is wrong. I love the fact that Mitt Romney isn't Obama...We're not electing him to be well liked--you can always get a dog for that.
~ comment by lleone on Breitbart

Boehner has such a knack for rolling over and giving in--an establishment weasel
~ comment by Scoobydu on Breitbart

Boehner is a Marxist. He couldn't even pass a repeal of the light bulb ban because of all the Marxists in the RINOpublican party who bought into the Global Warming scam.
~ comment by Beekaaay on Breitbart

WTF is Boehner using for brains? Tapioca pudding? Good grief! Thanks for sticking the old shiv right between the ribs there, Boner. Romney is a highly likable guy. The problem is, the Old Media is making him out to be a bad guy no one likes. A vulture. A vampire. A capitalist running dog. Romney has to fight that false image every day. And now Boner comes out and parrots Old Media's propaganda? Whose side is Boner on anyway? Tell me the Chicago thug political machine hasn't flipped Boner the way they did Roberts.
~ comment by POGO13 on Breitbart

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Ad Hominem Republicans Attack Nancy Pelosi's Mind

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From Fox News Via Real Clear Politics:

"You know my friend Allen West said the race card was the last card in the deck. I think former Speaker Pelosi has opened up a new deck and has found the 2 of clubs. I could not believe it when I heard her saying that. Is that all you have to come back with?" Rep. Gowdy said on FOX News tonight.

"Is that the best you can come up with, is that we got together in this grand scheme to suppress votes and I'm sure she didn't say southern states but that's what she meant," Gowdy said.

"It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous and the fact that she was once the Speaker is mind numbing. I honestly, and I have her a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor, I couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth. But keep in mind, Greta, this is the same woman who said she could have arrested Karl Rove any day she wanted. So I don't know what was wrong with her yesterday or today or whenever she said that, but I would schedule an appointment with my doctor if she thinks that we are doing this to suppress votes this fall. That is mind-numbingly stupid," he said.
























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