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He was a victim of commonsense. He wanted to work with Obama but the racist GOP would have none of that.
I doubt it, voters have short memories.
He was a victim of commonsense. He wanted to work with Obama but the racist GOP would have none of that.
theyz racisss
So tired of that
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” 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, shaving at least 0.6 percent off of GDP in the fourth quarter. The government re-opened after 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 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 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 from more conservative House members, Boehner did not take-up the measure. Instead, he offered an ever-evolving 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 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 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. As Boehner explained 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 to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, sought to undo Wall Street reform and a slate of environmental regulations.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...t-make-us-cry/
The Repug House bomb-throwers will block McCarthy, and elect one of their own, MUCH worse than Boner.
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 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 making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday in Louisiana.
He has fiercely opposed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, telling ThinkProgress that it would “actually force” non-citizens who did not want to become citizens “onto an amnesty track.”
Scalise is a climate-change denier and last July refused to rule out impeaching President Obama over what he called executive overreach
Jim Jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus. He has been one of the most vocal supporters of drastic spending cuts, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and of reinstating a ban on open service by gay and lesbian armed servicemembers.
He backed defunding 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, and has opined that he believes America’s founders wanted to prohibit abortion.
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 Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as “cruel Ponzi schemes.”
He has defended recessions as just “a part of freedom.” And he has opposed efforts 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 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/
I am glad you know that for a fact amazing this writing thinks he knows everything
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It's thinkprogress.borg. Facts are irrelevant.
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/...iticus+USA+%29
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" at ude 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?
"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? McConnell
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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
Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
Boehner’s announcement was a reason to mourn.
“We are grateful for Speaker Boehner’s leadership in so many areas,” saidChip Bowling, the chief lobbyist for the corn growers industry. “Speaker Boehner’s departure will leave a hole, to be sure,” said 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 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 for the Campbell Soup Company:
David Schnittger, a former Boehner aide who now lobbies on behalf of Goldman Sachs, Medtronic, and Royal Dutch S , 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 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 hosted by lobbyists. Before he became Speaker, Boehner served as the House GOP contact for regular meetings with lobbyists and convened a weekly meeting with lobbyists called the “Thursday Group.”
And for a period of time, Boehner rented 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 to manage the day-to-day business of key congressional committees and to serve as senior staff.
Boehner at one point called on bank lobbyists to be more aggressive 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 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, adding, “McCarthy’s got a lot of good contacts on K Street, too.”
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/...ers-departure/
It can only get worse. As bad as he was, he at least had a conscience.
I knew you would laugh.
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 Ins ute said that Webster’s views are “well outside the mainstream.” Some voters find Webster’s views so medieval that they have nicknamed him “Taliban Dan,”
“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 Ins ute 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 blame for inappropriate male sexual behavior on women 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-...e+Raw+Story%29
Holy , the Repugs are truly 100% ing Christian Taliban
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...race.html?_r=0
Another Confederate:
Hensarling
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 cons uents 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/...-one-quotation
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, 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-...cid=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/x38...rah-palin_news
He is worse than Palin. How is that possible?godfather of the select witchhunt on BENGHAZI! has serious, pit bull-ish, dubya-ish trouble with English
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38...rah-palin_news
Repug puppet masters love Useful Idiots as front men
just another Repug bag, showing how bags campaign for Speaker of the House
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.
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/2015/1...8Daily+Kos%29#
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 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/...iticus+USA+%29
'Freedom Caucus' Leader Has Bad News For McCarthy: We Plan To Vote As One
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
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