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GOP Chaos: Boehner's Chosen Successor Kevin McCarthy Pulls Out Of Speaker Race
Just two weeks after House speaker John Boehner dramatically announced his premature resignation without cause from his position seemingly in an attempt to difuse the tension within the GOP, there has been another just as dramatic development when moments ago we learned that Boehner's chosen successor Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn his candidacy for the speaker position.
- MCCARTHY TELLS HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOT RIGHT MAN FOR SPEAKER JOB
- MCCARTHY SAYS HOUSE REPUBLICANS NEED TO UNITE BEHIND ONE PERSON
The result is a delay in the speaker vote...
- HOUSE REPUBLICANS POSTPONE ELECTION FOR SPEAKER; MCCARTHY OUT
... which puts in jeopardy not only any future negotiations over US government funding when the continuing resolution expires in mid-December but more importantly puts into question what happens with the US debt ceiling when the US government runs out of emergency measures some time in early November as Jack Lew has warned is the deadline for getting a deal struck.
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This is what happened moments ago:
In a few moments, we'll announce the #gop nominee for #speaker. Who do you think it'll be? pic.twitter.com/oPJoDkUVzE
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) October 8, 2015
Followed by this:
In a stunning move, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn his candidacy for House Speaker.
GOP lawmakers said McCarthy told colleagues at the start of the conference Thursday that he was not the right person for the job. He recommended that the election be postponed and Speaker John Boehner delayed it.
“His supporters appeared stunned too”: Huelskamp
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has abandoned his bid for House speaker Thursday afternoon, just minutes before the election was about to begin.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who resigned the post last month, announced in the meeting that elections were being postponed.
The House Republican Conference, which has lurched from one legislative disaster to another, is now in a serious crisis. McCarthy was one of the only lawmakers in the chamber who was seen as able to garner the 218 requisite votes to become speaker.
Now, Republicans will likely have to look for another candidate — and quickly. Boehner is planning to step down at the end of October.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) repeated after the announcement that he won't run for speaker. "While I am grateful for the encouragement I’ve received, I will not be a candidate.
Perhaps McCarthy's exit is not all too surprising considering the announcement late last night that the Freedom Caucus would support the relatively unknown California Rep. Daniel Webster. Politico had more:
The move, so far, affects McCarthy only during an internal Republican Conference vote on Thursday — as members of the group could still end up voting for McCarthy in a few weeks when the entire House votes to elect a new speaker.
But it’s a strong signal that conservatives aren’t happy with McCarthy’s campaign to this point, and they’re going to try and move him closer to the far-right flank of the party — the same group that rebelled against GOP leadership and helped force Speaker John Boehner’s retirement.
“We’ve been clear — we want rules, policy and process. Regular order was the big word from the last couple of weeks. We want that on paper ahead of time,” said Rep. David Brat of Virginia. “We just go day by day by day.”
Interviews with more than a half-dozen members of the Freedom Caucus point to a deep skepticism of McCarthy’s promises to reform how the House operates. They want McCarthy to put out a written statement on his plans to empower committees and do away with punishments for lawmakers who vote against leadership.
And conservatives are refusing to back him until they see results.
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Here are some guidelines on the current status of US debt ceiling courtesy of Stone McCarthy:
Our latest projections show Treasury with less than $2.0 billion left in its toolkit in the week that starts November 2. Given the uncertainty surrounding these projections -- particularly regarding debt issuance to trust funds -- we think that's tantamount to the extraordinary measures being exhausted. Treasury Secretary Lew in his letter said Treasury expects to use up its extraordinary measures "on or about" November 5.
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Earlier today, outgoing House Speaker Boehner said that discussions were under way to deal with the debt limit, but that "there is no agreement on how to do this."
We think that a best-case scenario is one where Boehner pushes through a clean debt-limit increase with the help of Democrats before he steps down at the end of the month. However, given the internal turmoil in the GOP as it debates naming new leaders, we don't know how likely that is. To put it mildly, the 40 or so more right-wing Republican House members who make up the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) would not be pleased if that happened. While Boehner wouldn't care, what would be the repercussions for his preferred successor, Majority Leader McCarthy? (A group called the Tea Party Patriots is handing out "McBoehner" T-shirts to make the point that McCarthy is Boehner's "clone.")
McCarthy, meanwhile, isn't a shoe-in for the Speaker's job. The House GOP is supposed to nominate a speaker in a meeting later this week, and McCarthy is expected to get the support of a majority of the 247 GOP House members. What's more uncertain is how McCarthy would fare when the full House elects the next Speaker on October 29. No Democrats are expected to support him, and it's not clear how many members of the HFC might not back him. It's conceivable that McCarthy might not get the 218 votes needed relying on Republicans alone. We're not sure what might happen next. Would another Republican get 218 votes? That seems unlikely based on the other candidates who have thrown their hat into the ring so far. Would McCarthy court Democrats for support? That would certainly weaken his standing with the HFC members of his party.
If McCarthy does become Speaker at the end of the month, and has to engineer an increase in the debt limit, it will be a major challenge for the first few days of his tenure. The HFC types won't want a debt limit increase without something in return, a nonstarter with Democrats and the President. If he ignores the HFC members to avoid a default, he'll be in the cross hairs like Boehner was pretty quickly.
Now that McCarthy is out, the future of the debt ceiling raise is suddenly in limbo.
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In the end the debt limit will be raised anyway.
balls or no balls crybaby for sure^
"pulls out of speaker"
every zh reader knows that feeling.
disappointing, of course.
but it's for a noble cause: protecting yourself, your future, and your reputation.
Like the difference between a freezer and a faggot?
I guess having sex with a dead pig while kicking a baby was too high an entry price even for Kevin. Hitlery, on the other hand...
<< but it's for a noble cause: protecting yourself, your future, and your reputation. >>
I bet that company, "Reputation Protector" that claims to remove all the negative things written about you on the internet is a booming business; probably one of the few soaring profit companies out there next to white collar defense attorneys.
BTW, what's happened to Lois Lerner?
Do any republicans actually WANT that job? They are much more comfortable governing when they don't have to get anything done as the minority.
It's a good thing that this guy dropped out. The last thing the Republicans needed was another Boehner, siding with the democrats and Dear Leader, against the country, much of the time.
GOP is channeling The Changeling...
In spades...
With a cherry on top...
Pelosi could end up being speaker....
Why would we want another Republican in name only? Sick of these "moderate" Republicans who are just like their Democrat Socialist/Corparatist Vermin who only know how to spend us into debt and take away our rights.
Could it because there are only 40 or so non-RINOs in the House? And you need 218 votes to become speaker...
I ain't taking sides only outlining the political calculus...
I agree. I don't understand this RINO infestation in the GOP in the past 10 years. Why aren't there DINOs in the dem party? They all seem to stick together and are all liberal and equally destructive to the nation. The repubs on the other hand at this point are basically like the democrat lite party. Minus those 40 or so conservatives I don't even see a real reason to even have the GOP anymore as they are all mostly doing whatever they can to cowtow to the dems. I just don't get that dynamic.
progressives
Thank God that Louie is my congressman.
Here's what he had to say a couple of days ago.
http://www.redstate.com/diary/rep_louie_gohmert/2015/10/05/congressional...
AND the vote is postponed (until the weeping tangerine finds another yesman.
is there ANY doubt left that both party's power elites are doing the bidding of the same forces?
No doubt in my mind for a long, long time.
This would be funny if not so pathetic.
And America wants to fight a war with Russia when we can't even organize a good garage sale. This should be a complete 'throw the bums out' election. Just vote for anyone not currently holding office, preferably anyone running as an Independent in a House or Senate race if there are any on your ballot. Couldn't be much worse. .
Chaos?? For who? Rhino Republicans? OK...just them...its called the people having enough of this bullshit
This guy is a fucktard assclown and I'm being kind today. He would have been perfect for the Speaker job.
He was poking that other Congressional representative, the nurse from NC.
They threatened him with a bathtub of mud. This way he gets to keep exchanging body fluids with her with a wink and a nudge.
Fuckers.
yawn. as if it really matters. who's playing tonite ?
It does matter if we want a peaceful solution. This fuckhead was a liberal through and through. Hopefully we can get a real conservative in there.
Bring back Newt; he was one of the last real conservatives and not a war monger. I don't consider war mongers conservative since they spend Billions of OPM on the MIC.
I think Ann is busy at the moment...
He loves Woodrow Wilson. The father of U.S. progressivism .Newt oversaw the Boskin comission recommendations being put in place
Newt is a CFR guy along with the clintons and Bushes. Newt is also an Adelson guy.
Newt was a CFR douchebag. Newt and Romney were owned by Adelson in 2012 election. Newt was there to insure Romney won the primaries which Romney had to steal in the Midwest from Santorum. Santorum had Romneny beaten.
Adelson had said he liked Santorum but he was too Christian for him. Sort of tells you who runs the show. Romney was picked to lose like McCain.
The USSA doe snot have real elections,.
You mean the lead guy in giving Obama and Clinton cover for their disastrous war in Libya?
The guy who suggested in all seriousness that a staged terror attack on the US by our own government would be a good idea? https://youtu.be/W3x-OvhIwig?t=1m
The guy who was asking for a Department of Homeland Security six months before 9/11? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYthEhmw68
The guy who supports CFR, Bilderberg, and Bohemian Grove?
THAT Gingrich?
There is no "spoon".
Apparently the video with the edible underwear and the two interns was about to be released.
<< the two [male] interns >>
I presume?
he does look a little gay to me. However, many gays are wonderful overachievers who contribute great things to America and help build a strong nation --- remember Barney Frank?
And the Fuhrer, and Hillarnazi. The Big Gay hate Machine is loaded with wonderful people
Fwank
Just what the hell did that nasty repulsive fag contribute???
If you are going to give examples at least use someone like to Cruise. At least he contributed to making of some good movies.
........on, he is still in the closet???
OK,let's use Liberace then. Great musical entertainment.... And very flamboyant.
He's porking the representative from NC, a former nurse. Both are married, it would have been a mess.
"Clean debt-limit increase"? WTF is that supposed to mean?
A bill with nothing but the debt-limit increase...
Too bad Ron Paul retired.
I'm beginning to think the rats are jumping ship as the jig may be up. Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan all say no.
I think the more apt metaphor is "the parasites are leaving for another host". The ones being left behind to die are clammering for a spot.
The mention of extraordinary measures running out on November 5th raised my eyebrows a bit. Interesting coincidence.
He must still need work on his crying and caving-in skills.
Hilarious. He's also not orange enough.
lol, perfect
No one wants the job because their first act in office will be to push through a sizable debt load and raise the debt l
And to take it up the ass from the Fuhrer when he's done with Reggie
SWEET....
He's a RINO. I still would prefer a Speaker who was not a member of the House for a change of pace.
Ron Paul is elegible
he's never "Too Old".
Now that would cause a war,
With the Establishment.....
HE's Perfect, haha.....
Chosen by who?
Kinda puts a slant on your whole story, like the guy resigned or somethin'
DRAFT RON PAUL!
More than talk.
Nominations are open.
I Nominate Million Dollar Bonus.
--Second?
Why not just install an actual retard at this point? Or, maybe a goat?
I nominate (D-GA) Hank Johnson who was concerned about the number of troops stationed on Guam over fears it may capsize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk0tIqsbYM
The real story is, only a goat would want the job, aside from maybe a revolutionist!
The House has become the doormat of the branches of Government. Their mandate, to inject the will of the people, is being completely ignored by the rest of the Federal government. For however many years now the speaker has been the lap dog, as the processes of enacting and ruling by law has been turned on it's head and the House is told to sit in the corner and shut up, WACKOS!
Inventing ways to operate without a budget, thereby effectively bypassing the will of the House, has enabled the Federal Government to operate extra-constitutional. Only a radical bent on the illusion of change, or another lap dog recruit would want the job of Speaker!
Same for President, majority Leader, Etc. No sane man wants to lead us off this cliff, and most of them know it's coming. The Federal Government is about to default, and nothing they do can stop it. If it happens during this next round of debates on the Budget and Debt Limit, a perfect black swan event, they blame it on the WACKOS in the House, ostensibly the people did it!
I can imagine Debbie Wasserman-Schultz nominating Hank Johnson. When he got trounced, she could have gone to the microphone and spat out some venom about how he was mistreated by those nasty, extremist, racist people on the other side of the aisle.
She truly makes me ill. In fact, she reminds me of the female lawyer who used to do PR for the tobacco companies about 30 years ago. Sociopath.
I heard Chancy Gardener is available -
NoVa
Bonus video from Hank Johnson: 'Imagine a world without balloons'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dP_IzmgW0s
I'd actually prefer Peter Sellers (if he were still alive)
At least we could laugh along our way to hell...
The Rump is certainly giving us a run for our money in that regard. Sooo entertaining. Smack down smack daddy Donald Rump.
Honestly, a cactus literally would have done less damage than Boehner.
I vote for the goat but not the igoat.
"which puts in jeopardy not only any future negotiations over US government funding when the continuing resolution expires in mid-December but more importantly puts into question what happens with the US debt ceiling when the US government runs out of emergency measures some time in early November as Jack Lew has warned is the deadline for getting a deal struck."
Somehow, I think the govt will find a way to keep feeding itself.
Two words -- Kiddie Porn
Kabuki Theatre
Good, this clown has absolutely no record of achievement in the house other than brown nosing every establishment RINO fool as he worked his way up the ladder of power. He is no different than Boehner, they are both clones of each other and are in it for the money. On top of that he has already stuck his foot in his mouth in epic fashion, it is time for these professional politicians to be retired.
For a second there, I thought you were referring to the entire congress. My bad.
Thank God.
It remains to be seen whether or not this will hinder the right-wing's chances in the presidential race to come. Remember that this is a party where an openly racist demgogue is leading in the polls. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Who is the openly racist candidate? Any chance you can substantiate that nonsense?
His Aunt Jemima wife told him so.
Probably that "openly racist" candidate that my black American relatives are actually friends with, but my white American relatives tend to view as a obnoxious uppity clown they wouldn't give the time of day to...
Chump's own statements are self-authenticating. If you can't see it, you're deliberately choosing not to, and that's nonsense.
Openly racist? What an f'ing crock of shlt.
You are just spewing someone else's crap.
Trump may be a clown but he is no racist.
Know what Mar-a-Lago is? It was Trump's home in PB. He had some black, jewish and hispanic board members in the mid 90s who he wanted to get membership in the B&T in PB. The establishment blackballed them all and the same folks gave them grief in certain NY clubs/associations. Trump gave them the middle finger. Resigned from his NY and PB clubs and turned MaL into an all inclusive social club for business people. Right across the street from the B&T so they could flip off the wasps from a better more grand location (the B&T is a WASP shlthole).
Trump may be a LOT of things. The move was undoubtably self serving to an extent. But when a guy with an ego that big already on the inside of the establishment tells them to go f-ck themselves in order to create a more exclusive enitiy - you have to respect it.
He's a lot of things and should never be our president - but racist? That's just ignorant BS...
take that lying sheit on over to nbc or msnbc the hillary promo channel. Not needed here!
Dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way stupid.
McCarthy is a RINO cunt just like Boehner. Looks like the conservative wing of the party is finally asserting control?
theater of the parasitical...
FUCK THEM ALL...
and their MoneyChanger masters...........
The CIA said no way.
comical how CNBC is blaming the "sell-off" on anticipation of this news.
ive been saying for days that is shows how fucking retarded the republicans are; they FINALLY have hillary on the ropes & this asshole says something completely fucktarded on a tv interview (about how they were going after here for political reasons, me - id like to know the friggin truth about her emails & our 4 dead in benghazi but thats just me) AND THEY WERE STILL GOING TO LET HIM BE THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE?!?!?!
you simply cannot make this shit up. at least it seems as tho MAYBE someone there grew a brain (or had 1 of their aids watching ALL the libral talk shows BLASTING this ass-clown for what he said).
Good riddance. Sadly, anyone who can get that job is most likely not someone the public should trust.
Very gratuitous Jack Lew mention.
https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+lew+signature&biw=1274&bih=640&tbm=...
Jack Lew
As to McCarthy, it seems he has no peep skilz.
Does this mean NATO will send troops in?
Always the optimist.
Seems like no-one wants this "hot-potato".
Sounds to me like they're getting marching orders even they aren't comfortable with executing.
Bingissimo!! +1000
That's a very astute and concerning observation roisaber.. what could be that bad? Another round of TARP after the next massive crash? A vote for open warfare with Russia? Black mailed into going along with a national gun confiscation/martial law executive order?
Perhaps no one wants to be the fall guy during our very own Reichstag event..
I wonder what the Secret Service has on him.
3 some with obola & boner?
Nothing that anyone would pay attention to. Nobody gets taken to account on anything anymore. Besides, what's a speaker do anymore anyway? We have a dictator.
Ya, going into government to govern is so last century.
...
...and there was much rejoicing.
The last "government shutdown" was a complete joke and any future occurrence will be no different.
83% of the federal government continues operations as usual during a 'government shutdown'. It is a complete joke, the government 'shuts down' every night and every weekend.
Correct. In fact, it was really a two-week paid vacation!
I think there's now a general consensus that whomever is in charge at any level is, from an economic perspective, no longer relevant. Who would want to be in any position of authority when this ship tries to right itself?
-Argenta
Excellent! Next owned controlled establishement rino obunga sphincter holder please!
There must be some fucking shit train steaming our way. Is that lights I see up ahead ???
HeHeHe That's exactly what I was thinking Seasmoke, They know we are going off the cliff no matter what in the near future and none of I'm want to be the target of the wrath of the people.
He was fucking that chick Congresswoman.
She wasn't bad looking. But they are both married with kids.
I figure it would have been OK if he was a dick sucker.
Your 1st sentence should have been the ZH headline!
What chick?
This is a family web-site.
"Pulls Out" and "Boner" should not be used in the same sentence - at least not in such close proximity.
That depends entirely on what is being pulled out of.
They were probably threatening him with an ethics committee investigation, and he couldn't get his slushfund for hookers & blow in order.
Ho-hum. Because what I've seen over the last six years is that the Republicans can be counted on to continue to make crappy decisions on everything. They abandoned the constitution, so it's every man for himself. Nothing shocking, no surprises. Carry on.
whole thing should be prefaced by, Following the lead of the demonrats" ----
That thing in the bus station bathroom stall will probably come out anyway.
Who wants a job herding cats.
Smart man. I may not like him, but he shows intelligence for not wanting to be the head of a rotting corpse.
No loss, McCarthy was a fake anyway. He would have been another Boehner boot licker.
Wow, big news! My first thought.... which hot young intern is conspiculously absent today? This is too sudden and unexpected to just be him rethinking what he wants to do. Somebody's got the goods on him...
Missed Aliki's comment on this earlier... so consider everything below to be a "."
Seriously? Not a single comment about this?
WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) screwed up when he admitted the Benghazi committee was a weapon against Hillary Clinton, the likely future speaker of the House admitted Wednesday.
But he insisted the committee, which was impaneled after multiple bipartisan investigations found no wrongdoing, is a genuine attempt to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2012 attacks in Libya.
"Benghazi is not political. It was created for one purpose and one purpose only -- to find the truth on behalf of the families of four dead Americans," McCarthy told reporters when asked if he had inadvertently aided the campaign of Clinton, who released an ad Monday highlighting McCarthy's comments from the week before.
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee, what are her numbers today?" McCarthy told Fox News last Tuesday. "Her numbers are dropping, why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened."
This gaffe alone immediately took him out of the running for Speaker of the House. So the GOP gave him the only face-saving option it could. Withdraw.
Standard Disclaimer: Besides, he's from California, and he's already been warped just by living in the state to begin with.
We can declare our independence on a single sheet of paper.
Why can't we run the government on a ream?
OT, but relevant to ZH bloggers...
ZH, what's going on with the blogs? Responses are no longer indented, which makes it difficult for anyone but an AI to connect responses to a prior comment.
Wide stance?
Perhaps they should give it to James Sensenbrenner. He is the most senior Republican (36 years) that has an ACU lifetime score that is higher than either Boehner or McCarthy. Could he get 218 votes?
Has Sensenbrenner finally put away his brown shirt? His performances in committee hearings in the years after 9/11 were absolutely chilling. He was fine with national security letters and the Patriot Act. I was waiting for him to show up with a swastika on his arm.
Really atrocious.
I guess I don't understand?? Is the money printing machine broken?? I'm sure they will raise the debt ceiling even if they need to go get some duct tape
Glad this little shit eater is gone, no for that queer Obama.
Boehner light was not going to cut it, eh?
Under the leadership of Boehner and his evil accomplice over in the senate the republican party was doing everthing in its power to destroy itsef from within, rendering powerless and politically disenfranchised 30 percent of the eligible electorate of the US!... and serving up the control of this country, on a silver platter, to their secret buddies the openly leftwing wing of the predatory bird of prey known as the two party system.
An epic struggle is underway in the republican party...and much, including the fate of this nations political traditions and freedom itself are being decided.
"Boehner's chosen successor Kevin McCarthy"
The Rat's chosen rodent successor...
McCarthy was BAD on everything of import to White America, that is the REAL AMERICA.
Even Ann Coulter had to TWEET about the GOP debate everything was ISRAEL, ISRAEL, ISRAEL.
They, Conservative Inc., KNOW who their Masters are...
And meanwhile the END OF AMERICA continues full force:
France Train Hero Attacked
Stabbed in Sacramento
Sanctuary cities grow to 340
9,295 illegals released from jail, 6,460 still at-large
CUBANS FLOOD USA
Half a million Minnesotans don't speak English at home...1 in 6 kids now born to immigrant parents...Largest population of East Africans in N America
Toys ‘R’ Us Forces U.S. College Grads To Train Their H-1B Foreign Replacements
Ted Kennedy is not responsible for the Immigration Act of 1965
Bingo....a long, tireless, well-funded campaign to capture America without firing a shot...and it is still going on.
The next triumph for the Israeli lobby was just 2 years later when the Supreme Court, under infulence of Justice Abe Fortas, in a 5-4 decison, affirmed the right to hold dual citizenships. Since then, upper levels of the Government have bcome infested with these dual citizens, whose actions in large part overwhelmingly come down on the side of Israel's lobbists. No man can serve 2 masters.
http://viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html
Here is a partial list of names that will be familiar to many of you:
Jonathan Jay Pollard
Michael Mukasey
Michael Chertoff
Richard Perle\
Paul Wolfowitz
Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
Douglas Feith
Edward Luttwak.
Henry Kissinger
Dov Zakheim
Kenneth Adelman
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Robert Satloff
Elliott Abrams
Marc Grossman
Richard Haass
Robert Zoellick
Ari Fleischer
James Schlesinger
David Frum
Joshua Bolten
John Bolton
David Wurmser
Eliot Cohen
Mel Sembler
Steve Goldsmith
Adam Goldman
Joseph Gildenhorn
Christopher Gersten
Mark Weinberger
Samuel Bodman
Bonnie Cohen
Ruth Davis
Daniel Kurtzer
Cliff Sobel
Stuart Bernstein
Nancy Brinker
Frank Lavin
Ron Weiser
Mel Sembler
Martin Silverstein
Lincoln Bloomfield
Jay Lefkowitz
Ken Melman
Brad Blakeman
Anybody who would take this job is so severely unhinged only the other unhinged would support them.
Consider what that means. Would you run for the House? Can you think of anyone in the House you wouldn't consider a deranged psychopath? I really can't. So, among the 435 deranged psychopaths, nearly all of them are at least sane enough to refuse to be Speaker. The very few with an expressed interest must be just unbelievable. Considering that candidates for the GOP Presidential nomination have to claim a bizarre set of extreme religious opinions, a disbelief of science despite using the products of the same science they disavow, belief in a totally fictitious national and world history, the inability to ascertain basic cause and effect; how crazy does somebody have to be to satisfy that crew?
I'm not advocating Democrats. I saw through the red/blue thing decades ago. I'm saying the Republicans have pursued Nixon's Southern Strategy and Reagan's Embrace of the Evangelicals to the [il]logical conclusion. I also think there's no bridging the business faction, the religious fanatic faction, the fascist faction and the corporate-anarchist faction. We may be seeing the first dissolution of a major US party in over 150 years.
Who on Earth could be Speaker of the House right now? Anyone who could get the support of one faction would get no support from any of the others.
Really, they'd do best to nominate Pelosi. As Speaker of a majority-hostile House, she could at least route paperwork. This Chaffetz guy can't even read the text on his own slides.
Can you think of anyone in the House you wouldn't consider a deranged psychopath?
Justin Amash
I hadn't heard of him. He does look interesting, though.
OK, you found one possibility. That's better than I did.
When it comes to running the Govt. I never had much faith in the GOP. Few people are good at doing things they hate.
Exactly. Electing Republicans to government positions is like hiring vegans to run a steakhouse.
PRemature evacuation
Pulls out right after he ejaculated all over the Republican parties efforts to bring some degree of clarity to Hillary's emails, servers and treachory. Too stupid for words. Boehners Mini-Me bites the dust.
Big deal, the repubs lost a "waffler" . I guess that's what they wanted.
http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/28918/kevin-mccarthy/
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Fuck it, just give it to Pelosi.
No one will see any difference.