Boehner to resign in October

[DarrinS]

Thank God. I hope he has a big box of tissues.

[DarrinS]

Link -->. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/john-boehner-to-resign-from-congress.html

[m>s]

Good riddance

[DMX7]

You think government is dysfunctional now... just wait till we get a tea party loon as Speaker.

[m>s]

lol loon

[hater]

Is nigga on estrogen pills?

[RandomGuy]

You think government is dysfunctional now... just wait till we get a tea party loon as Speaker.

:corn:

Yet another step in the implosion of the GOP.

I laugh when Republicans talk about winning the presidency. The GOP primary is all about who will lose to the Democrat in the next election, IMO.

[tlongII]

This disappoints me. I really liked Boehner. I would have to agree with RandomGuy that the Republicans don't know what the fuck they're doing.

[boutons_deux]

"I've read" that Boner will prevent the "defund PP or no spending" shutdown, then get the hell out of Dodge.

[DarrinS]

"I've read" that Boner will prevent the "defund PP or no spending" shutdown, then get the hell out of Dodge.

Fuck PP, tbh

[DMX7]

"I've read" that Boner will prevent the "defund PP or no spending" shutdown, then get the hell out of Dodge.

That's what we need.

[boutons_deux]

Boehner to Continue Repealing Obamacare After Leaving Congress

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would resign as Speaker and leave Congress in October, but said that he would continue repealing Obamacare from his home in Ohio.

Explaining his decision, Boehner told reporters, “A lot of the Speaker’s job is administrative, which is time-consuming and tiring. In retirement, I’ll have more time for what I really love: repealing Obamacare.”


Boehner said that he plans to begin every day with a good breakfast, some exercise, and a vote to repeal Obamacare before lunch.

“No one knows how much time one is allotted on this planet,” Boehner, striking a somber tone, said. “But if the Lord above grants me good health, I will repeal Obamacare thousands of times before my journey ends.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/boehner-to-continue-repealing-obamacare-after-leaving-congress?mbid=nl_092515%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20 (1)&CNDID=&spMailingID=8101532&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=762729149&spReportId=NzYyNzI5MTQ5S0

[in2deep]

Pope destroyed the GOP with a single speech :wow

[boutons_deux]

Dement's nuthouse fringe VRWC stink tank cheers Boner fleeing

Heritage Action Cheers: Boehner 'Stood In The Way' Of Conservatives


“Americans deserve a Congress that fights for opportunity for all and favoritism to none.

Too often, Speaker Boehner has stood in the way.

Today’s announcement is a sign that the voice of the American people is breaking through in Washington.

Now is the time for a principled, conservative leader to emerge.

Heritage Action will continue fighting for conservative policy solutions and we look forward to working with the new leadership team."

Heritage Action is the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The group has long criticized Boehner for his efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-action-john-boehner-immigration) andbipartisan budget legislation (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/john-boehner-slams-conservative-groups-against-budget-deal-ridiculous).

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-action-statement-boehner-resignation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

so now will the clinically insane take over the House?

[DarrinS]

Obama's going to need a replacement caddy

[baseline bum]

Boehner to Continue Repealing Obamacare After Leaving Congress

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would resign as Speaker and leave Congress in October, but said that he would continue repealing Obamacare from his home in Ohio.

Explaining his decision, Boehner told reporters, “A lot of the Speaker’s job is administrative, which is time-consuming and tiring. In retirement, I’ll have more time for what I really love: repealing Obamacare.”


Boehner said that he plans to begin every day with a good breakfast, some exercise, and a vote to repeal Obamacare before lunch.

“No one knows how much time one is allotted on this planet,” Boehner, striking a somber tone, said. “But if the Lord above grants me good health, I will repeal Obamacare thousands of times before my journey ends.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/boehner-to-continue-repealing-obamacare-after-leaving-congress?mbid=nl_092515%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20 (1)&CNDID=&spMailingID=8101532&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=762729149&spReportId=NzYyNzI5MTQ5S0

Why do you always post the Borowitz Report? No one here finds that shit funny.

[DarrinS]

Is this fucker ever NOT crying?


http://youtu.be/268RC1GYFtI

[DarrinS]

Why do you always post the Borowitz Report? No one here finds that shit funny.

Because he thinks it's true. :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Why do you always post the Borowitz Report? No one here finds that shit funny.

why do you think it's meant to be ha ha ha funny? and since when do you speak for "no one"?

[Clipper Nation]

why do you think it's meant to be ha ha ha funny? and since when do you speak for "no one"?
Borowitz is a stand-up comedian. His column is literally in the "Humor" section.

You're like the living infomercial for the dangers of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

[Wild Cobra]

I wonder how much worse the next one will be?

[boutons_deux]

John Boehner's Legacy Is That He Doesn't Really Have One


The surprise is that Boehner, an insider institutionalist leading a band of blow-it-up tea partiers, has lasted so long—that is, that he put up with the nonsense in his caucus and managed to survive.

But he survived by yielding to the extreme forces in the GOP, which he and other party leaders had fueled and exploited to win control of Congress. Consequently, Boehner will exit the speakership with few positive accomplishments.

He failed his own side by not stopping President Barack Obama on health care reform and other measures that conservatives despise, and he failed himself by not achieving any grand legislation that bears his mark. As speaker, he was more of an attendant than a legislator.

There was a specific month when Boehner's dream of being a historic speaker evaporated: July 2011. His fellow Republicans had precipitated a crisis in Washington by refusing to accede to a routine move—raising the debt ceiling so the US government could pay its bills. Tea partiers were demanding deficit reduction and huge cuts in government spending in return for lifting the debt ceiling and threatening a financial crash. This led to a flurry of talks between the president and GOP leaders, and Obama saw this crisis as an opportunity. He initiated secret negotiations with Boehner. Why did they have to be undercover? To protect Boehner. The speaker could not persuade his own caucus that talking with the president to explore compromise had any value.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/john-boehner-resigns-gop-speaker

Repug MISgovernance for the sake the VRWC, fuck 'em all.

[baseline bum]

why do you think it's meant to be ha ha ha funny? and since when do you speak for "no one"?

I have never seen anyone here think your Borowitz Report posts are funny.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I have never seen anyone here think your Borowitz Report posts are funny.

+1

[boutons_deux]

I have never seen anyone here think your Borowitz Report posts are funny.

who said they're supposed to be "funny"? They're too subtle, too cerebral for you dimwits.

[Spurminator]

who said they're supposed to be "funny"? They're too subtle, too cerebral for you dimwits.

They are the very opposite of cerebral and subtle. Which is why they're not funny.

[Spurminator]

"I'm a big stupid dummy" says every Republican
by Andy Borowitz

[boutons_deux]

They are the very opposite of cerebral and subtle. Which is why they're not funny.

:lol "funny" is y'all's strawman, have at it! :lol

[Spurminator]

Okay, they're not particularly observant or thought-provoking either.

[boutons_deux]

Okay, they're not particularly observant or thought-provoking either.

You guys really got a Boner on for Borowitz! Are you so embarrassed, pissed at yourself that you read his articles and take SO LONG to figure his shit out? :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

No. Borowitz is just another shit post.

[TeyshaBlue]

:lol boner.

You're the one that posts his lame shit.

[baseline bum]

who said they're supposed to be "funny"? They're too subtle, too cerebral for you dimwits.

Subtle? The guy beats his point over readers' heads with a 2x4. That guy sucks at satire.

[DMX7]

Is this fucker ever NOT crying?


http://youtu.be/268RC1GYFtI

You tea baggers are so hopelessly lost -- and not just politically.

[baseline bum]

Sorry boots, The Onion is great satire, Borowitz is just stupid.

-PFY-Zm8j0E

[Splits]

647420398389329924

[DarrinS]

Lol



http://youtu.be/yTj0lC9dCOI

[Splits]

:lol "Values" voters. They value hate, that's for sure.

[dbestpro]

At first, when I began reading it seemed liked liberal gloating. Then as each post progressed it reads more like very, very, very, nervous self reassurances.

[Warlord23]

Boehner's exit is similar to the removal of Saddam/Ghaddafi ... he was pretty bad, but now the crazies might take over. If one of the Tea Party caucus reps becomes Speaker, Congress might as well stay home till the general election because nothing's going to get done.

Boehner however will probably pass a clean bill with Democratic support to fund the government for the next fiscal year. This is basically a kamikaze move ... he's taking one for the team to prevent the government shutdown. Someone had to do it, a prolonged shutdown would almost guarantee a Dem president in 2016, and maybe even a Dem Senate.

[ChumpDumper]

So now the wing nuts won't shut the gubmit down over Planned Parenthood?

lol principles

[ducks]

fire them all

[ducks]

he should just leave what the hell a month long quitting notice
thought 2 weeks notice was standard
loves the drama

[Silver&Black]

:cheer

[ElNono]

The whole thing smells like selfish shit to me, tbh... he was going to step down last year, but then the Pope he invited was going to finally show up after 20 years of trying, so he sticks around just for that long, making sure he's the speaker during the visit, and resigns the day after...

[DMX7]

:lol "Values" voters. They value hate, that's for sure.

lol, they value ignorance, bigotry, etc., etc.

I have really bad news for them. They are going to hate the next Speaker just as much because Tea Baggers don't have the votes to push their Tea Bagger agenda in any capacity other than just disrupting government and getting nothing done.

[boutons_deux]

"he was going to step down last year"

... then Cantor lost

[boutons_deux]

So now the wing nuts won't shut the gubmit down over Planned Parenthood?

lol principles

maybe not right now, but killing PP is apparently the destructive rightwingnuts' top social issue as campaign tactic, so expect PP to be on the campaign front burner, along with immigration, Muslim hating, sharia, to keep the Repug rabble base sufficiently roused through Nov 2016.

[hater]

Boener just saving the nation. He's a saint. He will leave govmt open. :tu

[hater]

He's basically taking a big shit on the tea party on his way out :lmao

[baseline bum]

This is basically a kamikaze move ... he's taking one for the team to prevent the government shutdown. Someone had to do it, a prolonged shutdown would almost guarantee a Dem president in 2016, and maybe even a Dem Senate.

I doubt it, voters have short memories.

[JohnnyMarzetti]

He was a victim of commonsense. He wanted to work with Obama but the racist GOP would have none of that.

[DarrinS]

He was a victim of commonsense. He wanted to work with Obama but the racist GOP would have none of that.

:cry theyz racisss :cry

So tired of that shit

[boutons_deux]

The 4 Worst Things John Boehner Did As Speaker

1. Boehner shut down the government to protect the country from “the threat of Obamacare.”

In October of 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days after the GOP-controlled Congress refused to approve a funding bill that included funding for the Affordable Care Act. Boehner explained that the action, which was advanced by a group of conservative lawmakers, was a way for Republicans to “take a stand (http://www.npr.org/2013/10/08/230356311/boehner-at-center-of-shutdown-blame-game)” against “the threat of Obamacare” and blamed Obama for refusing to negotiate over the law. According to Standard & Poor’s, the shutdown took $24 billion out of the economy (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/16/2794391/shutdown-cost-24-billion/), shaving at least 0.6 percent off of GDP in the fourth quarter. The government re-opened after (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-reopens-thursday-after-congress-passes-budget-deal-raises-debt-limit/2013/10/17/dbe7889a-371b-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html) then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) struck a deal to fully fund the government and increase the debt ceiling.

2. Boehner killed bipartisan immigration reform because Healthcare.gov had technical difficulties.

After the Senate passed (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/us/politics/immigration-bill-clears-final-hurdle-to-senate-approval.html?pagewanted=all) bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform in June of 2013, Boehner refused to bring the measure to a vote in the House, suffocating the legislative effort. A bipartisan group of 200 House members (http://www.dems.gov/timeisnow/) signed onto the House version of the legislation and Congressional observers predicted that the measure would pass if brought to a vote. However, fearing a backlash (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/immigration-reform-conservatives-106213) from more conservative House members, Boehner did not take-up the measure. Instead, he offered an ever (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/19/2965861/republicans-excuses-immigration-reform-delay/)-evolving (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/06/12/3448300/republicans-have-a-brand-new-reason-for-failing-to-pass-immigration-reform-bowe-bergdahl/) explanation for inaction.

3. Boehner turned the debt ceiling into a political football.

Boehner almost shut down the government in 2011 by demanding spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling increase. That fight set up sequestration, the automatic budget cuts that threatened to derail the economy at the beginning of 2013 before a last minute deal pushed them back to the beginning of March. Republicans failed to extract more cuts when the debt ceiling was temporarily raised in January through a deal designed to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” leading Boehner to insisted that Republicans would only raise the debt ceiling (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/03/21/1756321/boehner-intends-to-take-debt-ceiling-hostage-for-spending-cuts-again/#.UUts8S1GjIg.reddit) if they got an equal amount of spending cuts. This year, Republicans are threatening to shut down the government if federal dollars continue to flow to Planned Parenthood.

4. Boehner ran the least productive Congress in history.

According to the Pew Research Center,the combined productivity (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/29/in-late-spurt-of-activity-congress-avoids-least-productive-title/) of the 112th and 113th Congresses – in which Boehner served as speaker — was the lowest of any back-to-back Congresses on record. The 112th Congress, is considered the least productive in history, according to the Vital Statistics on Congress, passing just 561 bills (http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/07/vital-statistics-congress-mann-ornstein). As Boehner explained (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/21/2333351/john-boehner-congress-ought-to-be-judged-on-how-many-laws-we-repeal/) during an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation, “[W]e should not be judged on how many new laws we create. We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. We’ve got more laws than the administration could ever enforce.” Indeed, under Boehner, the Congress voted to repeal Obamacare more than 50 times, spent $2.3 million (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/26/2219971/house-republicans-charged-the-american-taxpayer-23-million-to-lose-doma-case/) to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, sought to undo Wall Street reform and a slate of environmental regulations.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/25/3705592/4-things-john-boehner-did-as-speaker-that-make-us-cry/

The Repug House bomb-throwers will block McCarthy, and elect one of their own, MUCH worse than Boner.

[boutons_deux]

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

Kevin McCarthy

Steve Scalise

The third-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) made headlines (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/01/3607463/alibi-white-supremacist-convention-completely-falls-apart/) earlier this year when it came out that in 2002 he had spoken to a group of white supremacists and in 2004 had been one of a handful of legislators to oppose (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/19/3612485/steve-scalise-opposed-mlk-day/) making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday in Louisiana.

He has fiercely opposed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, telling ThinkProgress (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/03/22/3417835/scalise-immigrants-forced-citizens/) that it would “actually force” non-citizens who did not want to become citizens “onto an amnesty track.”

Scalise is a climate-change denier (http://thinkprogress.org/climate-denier-caucus-114th-congress/#LA) and last July refused to rule out (http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/07/27/3464590/top-house-republican-wont-rule-out-impeaching-obama/) impeaching President Obama over what he called executive overreach

Jim Jordan

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus (http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/02/its_official_rep_jim_jordan_no.html). He has been one of the most vocal supporters of drastic spending cuts (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/15/2782911/republican-victory-sequestration/), tax cuts (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/12/03/133167/jordan-making-work-pay/) for the wealthiest Americans, and of reinstating a ban (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/09/18/858141/jim-jordan-dadt/) on open service by gay and lesbian armed servicemembers.

He backed defunding (http://jordan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397905) the entire Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s executive action on immigration, pushed for a voter referendum to overturn DC’s same-sex marriage law (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/03/30/177319/dc-jordan-draft/), and has opined that he believes America’s founders wanted to prohibit abortion (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/24/410290/the-top-5-most-outrageous-anti-abortion-statements-on-the-roe-v-wade-anniversary/).

Jeb Hensarling

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) chairs the House Financial Services Committee and previously chaired both the House Republican Conference and conservative Republican Study Committee. He hasdenounced (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/16/158901/jeb-hensarling-ponzi-scheme/) Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as “cruel Ponzi schemes.”

He has defended recessions (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/02/26/36436/hensarling-recession-freedom/) as just “a part of freedom.” And he has opposed efforts (http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/29/283614/jeb-hensarling-debt-dna/) to raise the debt ceiling as “contrary to our DNA” — despite having voted for an increase under Republican President George W. Bush.

Hensarling co-chaired (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/16/369529/penny-jeb-hensarling/) the unsuccessful 2011 “super committee,” where he vowed to oppose “any penny of increased static revenue.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/25/3705591/speaker-candidates-after-john-boehner/

[ducks]

The 4 Worst Things John Boehner Did As Speaker

1. Boehner shut down the government to protect the country from “the threat of Obamacare.”





In October of 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days after the GOP-controlled Congress refused to approve a funding bill that included funding for the Affordable Care Act. Boehner explained that the action, which was advanced by a group of conservative lawmakers, was a way for Republicans to “take a stand (http://www.npr.org/2013/10/08/230356311/boehner-at-center-of-shutdown-blame-game)” against “the threat of Obamacare” and blamed Obama for refusing to negotiate over the law. According to Standard & Poor’s, the shutdown took $24 billion out of the economy (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/16/2794391/shutdown-cost-24-billion/), shaving at least 0.6 percent off of GDP in the fourth quarter. The government re-opened after (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/government-reopens-thursday-after-congress-passes-budget-deal-raises-debt-limit/2013/10/17/dbe7889a-371b-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html) then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) struck a deal to fully fund the government and increase the debt ceiling.

2. Boehner killed bipartisan immigration reform because Healthcare.gov had technical difficulties.

After the Senate passed (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/us/politics/immigration-bill-clears-final-hurdle-to-senate-approval.html?pagewanted=all) bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform in June of 2013, Boehner refused to bring the measure to a vote in the House, suffocating the legislative effort. A bipartisan group of 200 House members (http://www.dems.gov/timeisnow/) signed onto the House version of the legislation and Congressional observers predicted that the measure would pass if brought to a vote. However, fearing a backlash (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/immigration-reform-conservatives-106213) from more conservative House members, Boehner did not take-up the measure. Instead, he offered an ever (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/19/2965861/republicans-excuses-immigration-reform-delay/)-evolving (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/06/12/3448300/republicans-have-a-brand-new-reason-for-failing-to-pass-immigration-reform-bowe-bergdahl/) explanation for inaction.

3. Boehner turned the debt ceiling into a political football.

Boehner almost shut down the government in 2011 by demanding spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling increase. That fight set up sequestration, the automatic budget cuts that threatened to derail the economy at the beginning of 2013 before a last minute deal pushed them back to the beginning of March. Republicans failed to extract more cuts when the debt ceiling was temporarily raised in January through a deal designed to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” leading Boehner to insisted that Republicans would only raise the debt ceiling (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/03/21/1756321/boehner-intends-to-take-debt-ceiling-hostage-for-spending-cuts-again/#.UUts8S1GjIg.reddit) if they got an equal amount of spending cuts. This year, Republicans are threatening to shut down the government if federal dollars continue to flow to Planned Parenthood.

4. Boehner ran the least productive Congress in history.

According to the Pew Research Center,the combined productivity (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/29/in-late-spurt-of-activity-congress-avoids-least-productive-title/) of the 112th and 113th Congresses – in which Boehner served as speaker — was the lowest of any back-to-back Congresses on record. The 112th Congress, is considered the least productive in history, according to the Vital Statistics on Congress, passing just 561 bills (http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/07/vital-statistics-congress-mann-ornstein). As Boehner explained (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/21/2333351/john-boehner-congress-ought-to-be-judged-on-how-many-laws-we-repeal/) during an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation, “[W]e should not be judged on how many new laws we create. We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. We’ve got more laws than the administration could ever enforce.” Indeed, under Boehner, the Congress voted to repeal Obamacare more than 50 times, spent $2.3 million (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/26/2219971/house-republicans-charged-the-american-taxpayer-23-million-to-lose-doma-case/) to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, sought to undo Wall Street reform and a slate of environmental regulations.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/25/3705592/4-things-john-boehner-did-as-speaker-that-make-us-cry/

The Repug House bomb-throwers will block McCarthy, and elect one of their own, MUCH worse than Boner.


I am glad you know that for a fact amazing this writing thinks he knows everything

[TeyshaBlue]

I am glad you know that for a fact amazing this writing thinks he knows everything

It's thinkprogress.borg. Facts are irrelevant.

[boutons_deux]

I think Boner's gonna have hardon for the rest of his days in Congress, for his enemies.

John Boehner Rips Ted Cruz And Labels The Texas Senator A False Prophet

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/27/john-boehner-rips-ted-cruz-labels-texas-senator-false-prophet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[JoeChalupa]

I actually always liked Boehner and felt he truly wanted to work with Obama and get things done. It was the "don't give Obama anything" attitude of the GOP stance that was the issue. Boehner wanted what is best for America but the anti-Obama at any cost views of so many on the far right that killed any chance he had. Will there ever be a Tip O'Neill in the GOP who is willing to compromise for the good of America?

[boutons_deux]

"Boehner wanted what is best for America"

he wasn't a Kock Bros-hired tea bagger anarchist extremist, but he wanted what was best for his paymasters, like any other politician beholden to big donors.

I expect the tea baggers, having Boner's scalp, will settle for nothing less than one of the 3 assholes listed above, or equivalent from their stinkin ranks as Speaker.

Next scalp? Bitch McConnell

[spurraider21]

Why do you always post the Borowitz Report? No one here finds that shit funny.
and he always makes the text of the source link really small to try to hide that its from the humor section

[boutons_deux]

and he always makes the text of the source link really small to try to hide that its from the humor section

you'r so funny

[boutons_deux]

Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure (https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/lobbyists-lament-speaker-john-boehners-departure/)


https://prod01-cdn04.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/187986029-article-header.jpg

Boehner’s announcement was a reason to mourn.

“We are grateful for Speaker Boehner’s leadership in so many areas,” said (http://www.ncga.com/news-and-resources/news-stories/article/2015/09/corn-growers-thank-speaker-boehner-for-legacy-of-service)Chip Bowling, the chief lobbyist for the corn growers industry. “Speaker Boehner’s departure will leave a hole, to be sure,” said (http://businessroundtable.org/media/news-releases/business-roundtable-statement-announcement-house-speaker-john-boehner) John Engler, a lobbyist who represents the chief executive officers of major American corporations.

Other lobbyists used social media to express grief and salute Boehner’s tenure as Speaker of the House:

A statement from former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who now lobbies (http://www.thenation.com/article/saudi-lobbying-complex-adds-new-member-gop-super-pac-chair-norm-coleman/) on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, was Tweeted by the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Super PAC that works to elect House Republicans:

Kelly Johnston, a lobbyist (http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=49C57130-4FC0-492D-B6C0-B72523C143E3&filingTypeID=51) for the Campbell Soup Company:

David Schnittger, a former Boehner aide who now lobbies on behalf (https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000050733L) of Goldman Sachs, Medtronic, and Royal Dutch Shell, among others:

Gary Shapiro, the president and chief lobbyist for the Consumer Electronics Association:

Myer Marks, a government affairs consultant:


Lobbyists enjoy access to establishment politicians of both major parties. But Boehner leaves behind a career that is marked by a particularly extreme coziness with K Street.

He was once caught (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg&app=desktop) handing out tobacco industry campaign checks on the House floor before a vote on tobacco legislation.

In 2009, Boehner slowed down House proceedings to allegedly attend the “Boehner Beach Party,” an annual event (http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2009/07/did-gop-stall-for-boehner-beach-party-020140) hosted by lobbyists. Before he became Speaker, Boehner served as the House GOP contact (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a64ZIkmVPv_w) for regular meetings with lobbyists and convened (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/07/john-boehner-links-lobbyists-washington) a weekly meeting with lobbyists called the “Thursday Group.”

And for a period of time, Boehner rented (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020701913.html) a Capitol Hill apartment from a lobbyist.

As he raised millions from corporate political action committees, Boehner encouraged lobbyists to have a direct influence over the policy process. Under Speaker Boehner, the reverse revolving door became a blur, with more and more corporate lobbyists hired (http://www.thenation.com/article/these-hires-congress-becomes-even-more-corporation) to manage the day-to-day (http://www.thenation.com/article/lobbyists-snag-top-staff-positions-capitol-hill/) business of key congressional committees and to serve as senior staff (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/12/09/134061/gop-freshmen-lobbyist-cos/).

Boehner at one point called on bank lobbyists to be more aggressive (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-year-more-of-bank-reform-debate-likely-boehner-2010-03-17?reflink=MW_news_stmp) when dealing with congressional staff, declaring: “Don’t let those little punk staffers take advantage of you.”

Even with a Boehner exit, lobbyists probably will not despair. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., whose chief of staff is a former lobbyist (http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201628-1.html) and who is also known for his ties to the lobbying establishment, is expected to replace Boehner.

Speaking to Roll Call, John Feehery, a former GOP aide who now lobbies, was nonchalant about the shift. Boehner “had a very close relationship with K Street — that’s just kind of how it is,” Feehery said (http://www.rollcall.com/news/k_street_crushed_conservatives_elated_over_boehner _departure-243851-1.html?zkPrintable=true), adding, “McCarthy’s got a lot of good contacts on K Street, too.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/lobbyists-lament-speaker-john-boehners-departure/

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It can only get worse. As bad as he was, he at least had a conscience.

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had a conscience.

:lol

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:lol

I knew you would laugh.

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Far-right’s choice for House Speaker is Duggar-allied religious fanatic called ‘Taliban Dan’

Freedom Caucus and other right-wing Republicans in the House are pinning their hopes on Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), an evangelical Christian with ties to the same ministry as the scandal-plagued Duggar family.

Julie Ingersoll of the Annenberg Institute said (http://religiondispatches.org/the-real-context-of-the-taliban-dan-ad/) that Webster’s views are “well outside the mainstream.” Some voters find Webster’s views so medieval that they have nicknamed him “Taliban Dan,” (http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=130220013&m=130219252)

“Webster has aligned himself with an organization that espouses an orientation to the Bible and its role in civil society that is certainly relevant to his campaign for public office” in that he is a follower of Bill Gothard and his Institute of Basic Life Principles (IBLP), which prescribes strict rules for the sexes and urges women to be submissive to their male family members in all things.


“[S]ubmission is a central tenet of Gothard’s teachings.

His evangelical critics have described the insular world of Gothard’s organization as “a culture of fear” and Gothard’s teachings as a “parody of patriarchalism,” the “basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context,” and “anti-woman.”

The core of Gothard’s authoritarian teachings is a chain of command of spiritual authority from God to the husband and father, who is responsible for seeing to his wife’s and children’s obedience in order to ensure their eternal salvation.


The Duggar family are followers of the IBLP and Gothard’s teachings, which place the (http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/heres-how-the-duggars-patriarchal-homeschool-world-teaches-kids-to-shame-sex-abuse-victims/) blame for inappropriate male sexual behavior on women (http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/heres-how-the-duggars-patriarchal-homeschool-world-teaches-kids-to-shame-sex-abuse-victims/) for not meeting the men’s needs properly, for tempting them unduly and for being the vessels through which evil enters the world.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/far-rights-choice-for-house-speaker-is-duggar-allied-religious-fanatic-called-taliban-dan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol Holy Shit, the Repugs are truly 100% fucking Christian Taliban

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Scalise, called himself white supremacist, racist, anti-semitic, KKK grand dragon David Duke w/o the baggage, now running for Speaker (or maybe sprecher auf der Haus is more accurate)

Another Confederate:

House Conservatives Push Trey Gowdy for Leadership Job

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/politics/house-leadership-race.html?_r=0


Another Confederate:

Hensarling :lol backs Tom Price for majority leader

Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, who holds Newt Gingrich's old congressional seat and is seen as a leader of the most conservative House Republicans, said that, during a recent debate over taxes, "we talked past each other oftentimes as much as Republicans and Democrats talk past each other."

To be clear, Price has been in the House since 2005, so the fact that only after eight years has it finally "hit" him that Republicans from other parts of the country represent constituents with less archly conservative views is fairly mind-blowing. This is pretty basic stuff: Voters in different regions have different political views.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/02/27/the-republicans-conservative-problem-in-one-quotation

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The Pointless Cowardice of John Boehner

Boehner also supported immigration reform, at least in its broad outlines—because he correctly saw that it was good for both his party and his country. And there was no doubt that the reform bill could pass the House, with the support of most Democrats and a substantial number of Republicans as well. But Boehner’s Tea Party colleagues in the House opposed immigration reform. So the choice for Boehner, who controlled the House floor, was clear: pass a historic bill that would be good for the Republicans and for the republic, or appease the extremist elements in his party in hopes of hanging on to his position as Speaker.

Boehner caved, refusing to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, and he suffered the fate of all those who give in to bullies; he was bullied some more.

This year, the fight was over the highway bill, another piece of popular legislation that Boehner himself and a majority of the House (as well as the Senate and the President) supported—as well they might, given that maintenance of roads and bridges represents some of the basic work of government. But again the Tea Party intimidated Boehner into keeping the bill off the floor, depriving the Speaker of another major accomplishment.

Boehner adopted an extreme version of the so-called Hastert rule, named for his predecessor as Speaker, Dennis Hastert (http://www.wsj.com/articles/former-house-speaker-dennis-hasterts-lawyers-in-talks-to-settle-criminal-case-1443459651), who is now under indictment for alleged financial crimes connected to blackmail payments (he has pleaded not guilty).

The Hastert rule holds that the Speaker should never allow a vote on a bill unless it’s supported by a majority of the Republican caucus.

But Boehner’s approach was to keep bills off the floor that were opposed by a minority of Republicans—the Tea Party caucus, which only numbers about fifty—effectively giving them a veto over the work of the House.

Nothing came to the floor without their say-so, so that meant that nothing much came to the floor except for symbolic exercises like votes to repeal Obamacare or to defund Planned Parenthood.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pointless-cowardice-of-john-boehner?intcid=mod-latest

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godfather of the select witchhunt on BENGHAZI! has serious, pit bull-ish, dubya-ish trouble with English


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x389ee3_speaker-of-the-house-in-waiting-kevin-mccarthy-seems-to-be-channeling-sarah-palin_news

:lol

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godfather of the select witchhunt on BENGHAZI! has serious, pit bull-ish, dubya-ish trouble with English


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x389ee3_speaker-of-the-house-in-waiting-kevin-mccarthy-seems-to-be-channeling-sarah-palin_news

:lol

He is worse than Palin. How is that possible?

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He is worse than Palin. How is that possible?

Repug puppet masters love Useful Idiots as front men

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just another Repug shitbag, showing how shitbags campaign for Speaker of the House

McCarthy promises Sean Hannity he'll shut down the government. Four times, apparently. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1426740/-McCarthy-promises-Sean-Hannity-he-ll-shut-down-the-government-Four-times-apparently)

Oh, Kevin McCarthy. Not even elected speaker yet and already promising the radio rubes that he'll shutdown the government over pretty much any issue Sean Hannity can name (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122984/kevin-mccarthys-already-making-promises-conservatives-he-cant-kee?utm_content=bufferfc7d0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer).


Boehner, to his great credit, didn’t feed the media beast that sought to destroy him. McCarthy, before serving a single day in the speakership, handed his gonads over to the most Limbaugh-like personality on Fox News, who happily placed them in escrow.Hannity isn’t after McCarthy—who isn’t a particularly quotable guest—for ratings alone. He wants regular progress reports on a different promise McCarthy made to him.

Actually, it was four promises:

“Defunding Planned Parenthood,

defunding executive amnesty and immigration,

defunding Obamacare, and

this Iranian deal is an unmitigated disaster that will lead to a modern day Holocaust,” Hannity said, rattling off his top priorities.

“Will you tell conservative America tonight that you will fight to the end … to defund those issues and use the power of the purse?”

“Yes, the answer is yes,” McCarthy said.


It's the defund those issues part that's key.

Since none of those things are things that the current sitting president will agree to—all of them being predicated on different but related conservative conspiracy theories, and that's even before you get to the "modern day Holocaust" bit—the only avenue available to House Republicans is to attach them to must-pass spending bills and demand that both the Senate and the president acquiesce to them.

If the Senate and the president don't agree to them? The government shuts down.

Again.

Four times, actually, presuming McCarthy keeps his "promise" to do it over every individual issue.

And we already know where it ends up, because we've already done it; no, Obama is not going to "defund Obamacare" or any of those other things in a futile attempt to keep the government open until House Republicans invent a new demand, and no, the Senate is not going to similarly hand over their own legislative powers, installing a hard-right faction of the House of Representatives as the final arbiter of all American laws and policies from here on out.

The must-pass bill will not pass; the government will "shut down," in small part or in larger part; government offices will close, services will be put on hold, and federal workers will stop being paid—again.

Eventually the House will have to come to some agreement that the Senate and executive branch can agree to, since our entire system of government requires that agreement by design, and House Republicans will have to cave in and lick their wounds. Again.

Four times, apparently.

So I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that Kevin McCarthy Is Lying. The alternative is that he's not lying, and really does plan to enter an outright war against the Senate and the president until they bend to this long list of Sean Hannity's personal pet grievances, and I have seen little evidence to suggest Kevin McCarthy is that much of an abject moron.

Is he a little bit of a moron, the sort that would brag that the Benghazi! special committee was founded as effort to damage Hillary Clinton in particular? Certainly.

But signing on to the Sean Hannity model of government by fiscal terrorism would require a special insanity that anyone who's smart enough to install themselves as speaker would, barring head trauma, be hard pressed to follow through on.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1426740/-McCarthy-promises-Sean-Hannity-he-ll-shut-down-the-government-Four-times-apparently?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

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another asshole tea bagger

Republican Rep. Chaffetz Vows To Destroy U.S. Economy In Order to Win Speakership

In the lead-up to Thursday’s party elections, wannabe Speaker Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) vowed Monday during a CNN interview (http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/politics/jason-chaffetz-house-speaker-race-confrontational/index.html%20...)that he would let the nation default on its debt and shut down the government so that Republicans could get their way.

In other words, Chaffetz is willing to destroy the U.S. economy just to win the Speakership.

Chaffetz wants to fight everyone, including his own party leadership and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has promised there would be no shutdown and Republicans would not play debt default games again this year.

When asked about McConnell’s promises that there will be no debt default this time around,

Chaffetz vowed to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage, “I have no interest in just simply raising the debt ceiling without changing the trajectory of spending.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/05/republican-rep-chaffetz-vows-destroy-u-s-economy-order-win-speakership.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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'Freedom Caucus' Leader Has Bad News For McCarthy: We Plan To Vote As One

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/freedom-caucus-vote-speaker?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

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House ‘Freedom Caucus’ backs Florida Rep. Webster before House Speaker vote
http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rep-Daniel-Webster-via-House-dot-gov-800x430.png


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/house-freedom-caucus-backs-florida-rep-webster-before-house-speaker-vote/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[ducks]

when will boutons run for office to make america great

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Boehner Will End His Reign Of Crises Not With A Bang But A Whimper

It is looking more and more likely that Speaker John Boehner will stiff House conservatives and push through an increase in the debt limit with the help of Democratic votes before he steps down. It would be a fitting parting shot to end his speakership.

If the last few years of budget brinkmanship and debt ceiling showdowns were theater, then a standalone, drama-free debt ceiling vote arranged by Boehner on his way out would be the play's denouement. It was Boehner after all, who starting in 2011, escalated the strategy of using debt ceiling votes to seek concessions on spending from Democrats.

GOP sources are telling reporters privately (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boehner-debt-ceiling-vote) that Republican leadership has conceded that a debt ceiling hike will probably need to advanced on its own ahead of a Nov. 5 deadline, separate from the budget negotiations underway ahead of the government spending deadline Dec. 11. Publicly, Boehner's aides are, at the very least, not knocking down (http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/boehner-debt-ceiling-deal-possible/?dcz=) reports there will be a "clean" debt ceiling vote and anticipating (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/14/boehner-likely-to-move-on-debt-limit-hike-before-departure/) that he will "solve some outstanding issues" such as a debt limit hike.

A clean debt ceiling vote would be rebuke to them, if not a recognition that the approach was never very smart in the first place.

"There's never been a meaningful success in using this strategy, it's the legislative equivalent of banging their head against the wall repeatedly,"

"The last thing they want to make it look like is that Republicans can't govern and defaulting on our obligation for the first time in history would be a major setback for Republicans,"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/boehner-debt-ceiling-clean-vote?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

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when will boutons run for office to make america great

your buffoon Trump is running To Make Trump Great.

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Republican leadership prepares to cave to nihilists and make the House even more ungovernable (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/15/1432740/-Republican-leadership-prepares-to-cave-to-nihilists-and-make-the-House-even-more-ungovernable)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/21721/large/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers_sequester.jpg?1362412316?

With the radical nihilists of the House Freedom Caucus gleefully turning Capitol Hill into a hostage-shooting gallery (first John Boehner, then Kevin McCarthy), a terrified GOP establishment has taken a break from begging Paul Ryan to sacrifice his career as a con artist and instead has begun trying to placate the crazies. And oh boy is this not a good idea.Here's the rub:

Two Republican leaders, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Luke Messer, just sent a letter (http://www.politico.com/blogs/the-gavel/2015/10/republican-leaders-house-rules-214816) to their so-called colleagues, promising to reform the House's rules (a key demand of the nutters) and even asking members to stuff their ideas into the suggestion box.

But like a moderator at a Star Trek convention, you've got to be really careful before you open up the floor to just anyone. To wit: Tops on the the berserkers' list, as the letter acknowledges, is an insistence that the House follow "regular order." This is where the true danger lies.

"Regular order (http://www.rollcall.com/news/regular_order_is_a_political_rorschach_wolfensberg er-224587-1.html)" is typically something that members of the minority party demand of the majority: generally speaking, the right to offer amendments and participate in the legislative process without getting treated like the kid picked last in gym class. But here you have members of the majority hollering for their own party to stop ignoring them, damnit!

And that's because, in order to get anything done—like, you know, not shutting down the government or defaulting on our debt obligations—Boehner's had to run roughshod over the maniacs and partner with Democrats. The whackadoodles hate that, of course, so they want a speaker with less power and a greater say for themselves in the legislative process.

But these are not people you want to give any kind of greater say to. Paul Waldman nailed it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/09/it-doesnt-matter-who-the-next-speaker-is-because-this-is-a-permanent-conservative-rebellion/):


They seem to want to ensure not only that the next Speaker is someone disinclined to make compromises with the Senate or the White House, but that he won’t be able to even if he wanted to.

Yet that's exactly what McMorris Rodgers and Messer are courting. A weakened speakership is an empowered Freedom Caucus. These people want to lead us to a thousand years of darkness, and the GOP establishment seems ready to let them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/15/1432740/-Republican-leadership-prepares-to-cave-to-nihilists-and-make-the-House-even-more-ungovernable?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

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Ryan open to running for speakership but not to negotiating with the House crazies (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434993/-Ryan-open-to-running-for-Speakership-but-not-to-negotiating-with-the-House-crazies)

We have to wonder if this negotiation is over before it starts. Paul Ryan is now saying he's open to running for a job he really doesn't want with one stipulation: absolutely no concessions to the House crazy caucus. Nancy Cordes reports (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ryan-open-to-running-for-speaker/):


Ryan's confidants tell CBS News he will not horse trade with the House Freedom Caucus, a group of 40 or so deeply conservative members who have been demanding changes to House rules and other very specific promises from candidates for Speaker in exchange for their support. Ryan's confidants say he is not going to negotiate for a job he never sought, and that he has a record of conservative leadership that should be clear to every member of the GOP conference.

This thing if far from over, as Erica Werner notes (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-faces-leadership-disarray-as-it-returns-to-capitol/2015/10/19/9f0fe472-7642-11e5-a5e2-40d6b2ad18dd_story.html).


More than a half-dozen lawmakers are considering running for speaker if Ryan does not, even as hard-liners warn that Boehner risks more rebellions if he stays on past his planned departure date of Oct. 29.“John is a lame duck. There was a reason John announced his resignation,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus. “I think Paul does have the credibility across the conference to be able to unite us, but to say he’s the only one I think is hyperbole.”


The guy Mulvaney is calling "lame duck" is likely on the hook to navigate the discordant GOP caucus through raising the debt ceiling by early November. Shortly after that, the caucus will have to contend with funding the government (http://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-passes-government-funding-bill-prior-to-midnight-deadline-1443623598) again by mid-December. Nothing says "Happy Holidays!" like a government shutdown.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434993/-Ryan-open-to-running-for-Speakership-but-not-to-negotiating-with-the-House-crazies?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

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Ryan appears to be accepting, spewing "unified" bullshit and absolute lies, the Billionaire Boys Toys will fuck him over.

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Paul Ryan is an arrogant clown drunk on years of flatterers lying about how smart he is

GOP Rep. thinks he's a Randian hero, but is quickly learning that even conservatives find his arrogance revolting

After a couple of weeks of playing up his reluctance to be House Speaker, Ryan has descended from the mountain to issue the list of his conditions that must be met until he’ll deign to take on one of the most powerful political offices on the planet. The conditions include some empty, high-minded language (http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/conservatives_declare_war_on_emperor_paul_ryan_wan ts_house_conservatives_to_sign_their_own_death_war rant/) about being a more effective party, but also a couple of very specific, presumptuous demands: That the party unify behind him and oh, yeah, he doesn’t work weekends because he likes to spend time with his family. This from a guy who happily lectures the rest of the country (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/10/21/3714503/paul-ryan-speaker-work-family/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds)about how our desire to have a life outside of work means we’re lazy.

That Ryan thinks he’s in a position to issue such haughty demands isn’t really that much of a surprise. Ryan is a major fan of the works of Ayn Rand (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/7-ways-paul-ryan-revealed-his-love-for-ayn-rand.html#) who has said that we are “living in an Ayn Rand novel” and that now, more than ever, we need Rand to explain to us “the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.” Of course he imagines that he’s a Galtian superhero, the kind of man who deserves to have the unquestioning obedience of his underlings and the opportunity to spend his weekends relaxing on a boat while the lesser people have to toil away working overtime.

Alas, the problem for Paul Ryan is that everyone who subscribes to Randian philosophy thinks the same way: That they, by dint of their self-appointed status as smarter and better than everyone else, should also be the masters of the universe.

That’s the problem with Ayn Rand’s worldview. In order to be John Galt, you need the hordes of nameless plebes to lord your alleged superiority over. But the Republican party is made up of self-appointed John Galts. When everyone in your party believes they’re meant to be giving orders, not taking them, it’s really hard to have basic discussions, much less organize effectively to get anything done.

The Galt vs. Galt tension exploded almost immediately after Ryan’s egocentric list of demands was rolled out. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who leads the Tea Party Caucus (http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/conservatives_declare_war_on_emperor_paul_ryan_wan ts_house_conservatives_to_sign_their_own_death_war rant/), asked, “Is he serious?”

Rep. Raul Labrador also called out Ryan for being arrogant enough (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/21/paul-ryans-demands-include-non-starter/) to want to change the House rules, saying that if the rules are “good enough for [Thomas] Jefferson, it’s got to be good enough for Paul Ryan.” The Freedom Caucus isn’t having it, either.

Conservative media in particular had one resounding message for Ryan: Who are you to think you’re John Galt? We’re the John Galts around here!

Laura Ingraham and Hot Air (http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/21/conservative-media-outraged-after-paul-ryan-agr/206314)both used the word “emperor” to describe how they imagine Paul Ryan sees himself. The Drudge Report hammered Ryan (http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/conservatives_declare_war_on_emperor_paul_ryan_wan ts_house_conservatives_to_sign_their_own_death_war rant/) for being totalitarian and tried to imply he’s a secret liberal. Breitbart echoed Labrador’s talking point (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/21/paul-ryan-demands-repeal-founding-father-thomas-jeffersons-rule/) about Ryan’s arrogance in wanting to overturn Thomas Jefferson. Even the Fox News news vertical, which is supposed to just be for news and not opinion pieces, titled the article about Ryan’s demands (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/21/ryan-speaker-run/),

“His way or the highway? Ryan makes big demands for speaker run.”

The message is loud and clear: They do not like being told what to do, no sir.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/paul_ryan_is_an_arrogant_s_o_b_drunk_on_years_of_f latterers_lying_about_how_smart_he_is/

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Ryan is one egomaniacal, sicko mofo. btw, his "budgets" were pure bullshit fantasy, full of magical jokers and asterisks, except when protecting/enriching the 1% and screwing the poor

4 Amazing Reactions to Paul Ryan’s ‘Family Time’ Request

1) He obviously doesn’t want the job.

Does Ryan want to be Speaker? It’s a thankless, divisive job, especially for someone with White House ambitions. So some Republicans think he’s just trying to duck out of saying no. “You know, I’m not sure he wants the job. His list of demands were so bold, they pass into almost the unreasonable,” says Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie, a fellow Republican. According to Talking Points Memo (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/thomas-massie-paul-ryan-doesn-t-want-speaker), Massie added, “I’m not sure he wants the job. I think this might have been a good way that he’s turning down the job,” then claimed Ryan was trying to “demand his way out of contention” by asking to spend more time at home with his family than past speakers. “That’s what I think. And look, I’m sympathetic to his demands. If you say that the speaker’s job now includes getting to go home every weekend to your family, I expect we’d have 50 more people that would take the job under those conditions.”

2) Paul Ryan, hypocrite.

Is it fair to demand quality time at home when you are spending your time at work making sure that others don’t have the ability to access mandated paid family leave? Absolutely not, says Jezebel. “[A]s the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel points out (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-family-leave_5626efeae4b08589ef49a940?yr639pb9), Ryan’s GOP caucus blocked President Obama’s attempt to mandate paid parental leave in both the public and private sectors here in the US,” writes Erin Gloria Ryan (http://theslot.jezebel.com/paul-ryan-opponent-of-paid-family-leave-demands-congr-1737781027). “We’re one of only three countries in the world (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-industrialized-nation-paid-maternity-leave/story?id=30852419) that doesn’t guarantee new parents paid time off from work to care for their offspring. And we certainly don’t have any enshrined rules that guarantee fathers time away from work to spend with their 10-, 12-, and 13-year-old children. Perhaps if Paul Ryan hadn’t spent much of his political career fighting laws that promote realistic work-life balance for parents of all socioeconomic levels, asking for family time would make him look more like a hero and less like a hypocrite.”

3) He’s totally unrealistic.

Washington Post columnist Chris Cillizza didn’t pull any punches when he called Ryan’s request delusional. “While I commend Ryan for wanting to keep his family time protected (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/12/paul-ryans-big-speaker-hangup-is-reportedly-his-family-for-a-male-lawmaker-thats-unusual/), it’s a totally unrealistic idea,” Cillizza writes (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/21/paul-ryan-might-be-saving-his-party-but-at-what-cost/). “Without John Boehner, the party’s best congressional fundraiser by a mile, who exactly is going to fill the void for Ryan? Donors — especially the big ones — don’t want to be asked for a giant check from the guy next to the guy. They want to be in a room with the speaker. Period. Given that — and the fact that Republicans don’t control the White House, the best of all fundraising perches — it’s hard for me to imagine Ryan as speaker taking weekends (and nights) (and mornings) off and someone else just ‘filling in.’ Being speaker isn’t the sort of job you can do on your own terms — no matter the promises that people make you in order for you to take the job.”

4) “Go work at Chik-fil-a!”

But perhaps the best response to Ryan’s demands for weekends off came from comedienne Lizz Winstead, who took to Twitter to eviscerate the Speaker to Be. “Hey Paul Ryan,” she tweeted (https://twitter.com/lizzwinstead/status/656857871259336704). “You want Sundays off, go manage a Chik-fil-A.”

http://www.care2.com/causes/4-amazing-reactions-to-paul-ryans-family-time-request.html


Paul Ryan, Opponent of Paid Family Leave, Demands Congress Respect His Need for Family Time (http://theslot.jezebel.com/paul-ryan-opponent-of-paid-family-leave-demands-congr-1737781027)

In 2009, Ryan voted against a bill (http://www.ontheissues.org/HouseVote/Party_2009-H310.htm) that would have given federal employees four weeks of paid paternity leave. ThinkProgress additionallynotes (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/10/21/3714503/paul-ryan-speaker-work-family/) that Ryan proposed cuts to child care subsidies for poor parents:


The sky-high cost of child care in the U.S. can dwarf a parent’s income, particularly a low-income parent. Child care subsidies help defray that cost, allowing a parent to find a place to leave their children while going to work and knowing that they don’t have to rely on family members or unsafe, unstable arrangements. Without them, however, poor parents can face a tough choice between continuing to work and simply staying home because the cost is too high.

At the same time, however, he’s often said that more poor people need to be in the workforce and combat what he sees as a “culture problem” (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/12/3394871/ryan-poverty-inner-city/) where they don’t value work.


http://theslot.jezebel.com/paul-ryan-opponent-of-paid-family-leave-demands-congr-1737781027

[ChumpDumper]

Did Ryan make the same demands when he agreed to run for VP?

[baseline bum]

LOL Republicans getting what they asked for with the teabaggers

[boutons_deux]

LOL Republicans getting what they asked for with the teabaggers

and the Billionaire Boys Toys of HFC may still kneecap him.

[baseline bum]

What a fucking worthless party, can't even find someone who wants to lead their sorry asses.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm surprised Ryan is taking the job. I can't see its being anything but a career ender.

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan Has Never Been Much of a Match for President Obama

In fact, I thought Obama defanged him methodically and convincingly.

Nor has Ryan "annihilated" any deficit skullduggery that I can remember.

He issues his roadmaps, which no one really seems to take seriously any longer since the magic asterisks keep getting larger and bolder over time,

and he's cut a few pragmatic budget deals with Democrats. He has a calm affect, and he undoubtedly understands the minutiae of the budget process.

But the truth is that he's not a very effective critic of the administration.

He doesn't rile the base like some of the tea party guys, and

his technical criticisms don't usually amount to much.

Partly this is because, contra Klein, Obama is relatively honest about his budget claims, which makes it hard to tear them apart, and

partly because Ryan's own claims have lost credibility thanks to his relentless unwillingness to explain exactly what he'd cut to reach his Holy Grail of lower taxes and a balanced budget.

Ryan's combination of conservative street cred and pragmatic approach to getting things done should serve him well as Speaker. But then, that's more or less what I thought about Scott Walker, too, and we all saw how that turned out. Ryan is going to have a tough time trying to herd Republican cats into a semblance of order. Good luck.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/paul-ryan-has-never-been-much-match-president-obama

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan caves to a second Freedom Caucus demand, before he's even elected speaker (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/23/1437734/-Paul-Ryan-caves-to-a-second-Freedom-Caucus-demand-even-before-he-s-speaker)

Rep. Paul Ryan has agreed to delay a discussion about reforming the procedural motion used to remove a House speaker, a major concession to the House Freedom Caucus.The Wisconsin Republican, now the presumptive next speaker of the House, delivered the message to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussion.

Possible changes to the so-called “motion to vacate” will now come as part of a larger discussion of reworking internal party and House rules.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/23/1437734/-Paul-Ryan-caves-to-a-second-Freedom-Caucus-demand-even-before-he-s-speaker?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

WATCH: Larry Wilmore Blasts 'Total Hypocrite' and 'Completely Full of Sh*t' Paul Ryan on Family Leave

"Paul Ryan is completely full of shit," Wilmore said before playing a news clip explaining that Ryan voted against paid family leave for federal workers in 2009.

Put simply: the Wisconsin Congressman supports "family time" for those who are rich and more work time for those who aren't.

But, according to Wilmore, even his nominal reason for family time doesn't add up: Ryan clearly spends more time at the gym than playing catch with the kiddos.

"The Speaker of the House doesn't need to shred his delts and burn his glutes," Wilmore insisted. "You're a dad. Be like the rest of America and be content with your dad bod."


http://www.alternet.org/media/watch-larry-wilmore-blasts-total-hypocrite-and-completely-full-sht-paul-ryan-family-leave?akid=13599.187590.Hp8-HQ&rd=1&src=newsletter1044600&t=10

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government, Permanently

In addition to wanting to privatize both Social Security and Medicare, Ryan has indicated that he essentially wants to shut down the federal government in the sense of taking away all of the money for the non-military portion of the budget.

The score (http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12128/04-05-ryan_letter.pdf) of his plan showed thenon-Social Security, non-Medicare portion of the federal budget shrinking to 3.5 percent of GDP by 2050 (page 16).

Ryan has indicated that he does not want to see the military budget cut to any substantial degree.

That leaves no money for the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, The Justice Department, infrastructure spending or anything else. Following Ryan's plan, in 35 years we would have nothing left over after paying for the military.

Just to be clear, this was not some offhanded gaffe where Ryan might have misspoke. He supervised the CBO analysis. CBO doesn't write-down numbers in a dark corner and then throw them up on their website to embarrass powerful members of Congress. As the document makes clear, they consulted with Ryan in writing the analysis to make sure that they were accurately capturing his program.

The budget wonkism of Chairman Ryan is a beautiful example of the failure of the national media to take their job seriously.

Telling us he is a wonk, without telling us the content of his wonkism, is a bad joke which should get people very angry at the folks who pretend to give us the news.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33380-paul-ryan-wants-to-shut-down-the-government-permanently

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan pledges no immigration reform, already bowing to the GOP's anti-immigrant wing (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/27/1440774/-Paul-Ryan-pledges-no-immigration-reform-already-bowing-to-the-GOP-s-anti-immigrant-wing)


Rep. Paul "no horse trading (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434993/-Ryan-open-to-running-for-Speakership-but-not-to-negotiating-with-the-House-crazies)" Ryan traded a huge horse last week while trying to solidify support among House crazy caucus members for his speakership: he signed a pledge (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426097/paul-ryan-promises-no-immigration-reform-obama-administration) not to push a vote on comprehensive immigration reform for the remainder of President Obama's term.


The letter, obtained exclusively by National Review, formalizes pledges that Ryan made last week in a closed-door meeting with select members of the HFC who were skeptical of his promise to maintain an “open” and “inclusive” relationship with the caucus.

Specifically, it extracts

Ryan’s word that he will not bring up comprehensive immigration reform “so long as Barack Obama is president” and,

as speaker, Ryan will not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless a “majority” of GOP members support it.

Alabama representative Mo Brooks wrote the letter and will enter it into the Congressional Record on Tuesday morning. He says his intention was to record the pledges Ryan made in the meeting and earn Ryan’s confirmation that the record was accurate, so he could vote for the Wisconsin Republican in good conscience come the congressional-floor election that will determine the next speaker.


Conservative right-wing commentators freaked out (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/26/pbs-documentary-house-freedom-caucus-founder-key-paul-ryan-luis-gutierrez-open-borders-effort/) last week after a PBS documentary (http://video.pbs.org/video/2365587196/) exposed Ryan's quiet support for immigration reform.

That just wasn't gonna fly in a party that's beholden to people like Brooks and the ever forward thinking Steve "cantaloupe calves" King.So Ryan, whom many in the Beltway hail as a principled guy, is already taking his marching orders from the GOP's most anti-immigrant wing.

That's perfect—it keeps the House GOP caucus in lockstep with the xenophobic and racist comments of Republican front-runners Ben Carson and Donald Trump. On immigration, in particular, Carson's mostly been a self-deporter (http://americasvoice.org/research/meet-2016-gop-candidates-president-positions-immigration/#carson) in the vein of Mitt Romney. But since Trump has made self-deportation look like a rainbows-and-unicorns stance among the GOP hopefuls, watch for Carson to step up his anti-immigrant game.

Either way, Ryan has pledged to keep the GOP the party of "no."

No immigration.

No compromises.

No solutions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/27/1440774/-Paul-Ryan-pledges-no-immigration-reform-already-bowing-to-the-GOP-s-anti-immigrant-wing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Repugs love immigration as a CAMPAIGN issue to rouse all y'all racist, nativist, white supremacist xenophobes, so they'll never FIX it. :lol

[boutons_deux]

House extremists will give one last obscene gesture to Boehner, opposing his budget deal (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/28/1441610/-House-extremists-will-give-one-last-obscene-gesture-to-Boehner-opposing-his-budget-deal)

House Republicans are facing a last-minute uprising against Speaker John Boehner's budget deal, as dozens of GOP lawmakers are telling leadership they might vote against the package because of changes to crop insurance programs, and other concerns.

Senior GOP lawmakers estimate that between 60 and 120 Republicans will vote for the package as is, leaving Democrats to supply the vast majority of votes, though the vote count is fluid at this time.

Aides in both parties expect the bill to pass, but the number of GOP defections is a notable rebuke to Boehner and other top Republicans.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/28/1441610/-House-extremists-will-give-one-last-obscene-gesture-to-Boehner-opposing-his-budget-deal?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Paul Ryan's gonna have a hell of nightmare with the Billionaires Boys Toys, and he deserves every bit of it.

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan Isn't Sure How To Get The Cigarette Smell Out Of The Speaker's Office

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may have given his successor a clean slate (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-boehner-budget-deal_562f89d2e4b06317990f5c1f) to start with, but he also left him a slightly more unpleasant gift: the smell of cigarette smoke.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a fan of the P90X workout (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/paul-ryan-s-extreme-workout-plan.html), told Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press" on Sunday that the smell of cigarettes still lingered in the speaker's office from Boehner, who was known to smoke a lot.

Ryan, who said that he thought he would be able to continue sleeping in his office as speaker, told Todd that he wasn't sure how he would get the smell of smoke out.

"We’ve been talking about that, they have these ozone machines, apparently, that you can detoxify the environment. But I'm going to have to work on the carpeting in here," he said. "You know when you ever go to a hotel room or get a rental car that has been smoked? That's what this smells like."

Last year, Ryan told Time that he made sure not to sit close (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/paul-ryan-john-boehner-cigarettes_n_5697885.html) to Boehner during meetings where the speaker might light up.

"I try to sit as far away from him as I can in meetings that I know are going to be stressful. I just hate getting that smell in my clothes," Ryan said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-cigarette-smell_563521ebe4b063179912a62b?utm_hp_ref=politics