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Boehner Will Resign from Congress

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Boehner Will Resign from Congress

By JENNIFER STEINHAUERSEPT. 25, 2015


WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner will resign from Congress and give up his House seat at the end of October, according to aides in his office.



Mr. Boehner was under extreme pressure from the right wing of his conference over whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood in a bill to keep the government open.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/boehner-will-resign-from-congress.html?_r=0

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Time to cut and run!
 
Wow! Now that is news.
 
About ****ing time. I guess he saw the handwriting on the wall.
 
Fingers crossed... He needs to go so a real conservative can run the show. Maybe even any Republican with a backbone would be a nice change.

Now, on to change the Republican leadership in the Senate...
 
Good! Another insider going out. Good riddance.
 
For everyone screaming about "he wasnt conservative enough"
1.)You kidding me?
2.)There is not going to be a "more conservative" speaker to replace him...
 
natsb said:
Fingers crossed... He needs to go so a real conservative can run the show. Maybe even any Republican with a backbone would be a nice change.

Now, on to change the Republican leadership in the Senate...
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Yep, McConnegal is next!
 
natsb said:
Fingers crossed... He needs to go so a real conservative can run the show. Maybe even any Republican with a backbone would be a nice change.

Now, on to change the Republican leadership in the Senate...
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I wouldn't count on it. Boehner wouldn't resign without securing the votes for his milquetoast replacement.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
For everyone screaming about "he wasnt conservative enough"
1.)You kidding me?
2.)There is not going to be a "more conservative" speaker to replace him...
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1. Nope, we're not kidding you.

2. Probably not, but he still had to go.
 
Another relic, career politician, retiring is always good news.
 
Fortunately, Obama can save us from the Tealiban with his veto pen. So it doesn't really matter if the reasonable moderates give up.

If we elect another dem potus, and at this point according to most polls, it looks like we will, republicans in congress will continue to be powerless for a long time, and the tea party will die out as people will just loose interest in that nonsense.
 

Right, because the Constitution and over taxation is just so much nonsense.
 

If this is true I don't know reason, nor do I care. The Republican Party is a dysfunctional mess.

But it's funny because just yesterday I was reading an article talking about the upcoming government shut-down because the GOP is yet again stamping it's feet and throwing a temper tantrum, this time about Planned Parenthood. And in this article they quoted about 5-6 Dems in Congress who said they were tired of bailing out the the Republicans and saving Boehner's ass every few months about a possible government shut-down because he can't control the far right fanatics in the Republican Party. They were basically saying it's not the Dems job to save the GOP from themselves, and they're right.

Maybe Boehner's had enough of his own party too.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Another relic, career politician, retiring is always good news.
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You think a "non-career politician" is going to replace him? Being a speaker almost requires one to be a "career politician".....
 
countryboy said:
Right, because the Constitution and over taxation is just so much nonsense.
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So you don't think that Obama extending the Bush tax cuts on all but the 1% was a good thing?

I could understand your point of view, if Obama had seriously jacked up taxes, or declared martial law, or something like that. But he didn't.

And if congress would pass a major tax cut for the non-rich, I'm pretty certain that Obama would pass it, but instead of the republican controlled congress cutting taxes, they have concentrated on pretending to repeal Obamacare for 63 times, even though they are perfectly well aware that Obama would veto any such repeal.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
You think a "non-career politician" is going to replace him? Being a speaker almost requires one to be a "career politician".....
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As speaker, of course not. But his seat might get picked up by someone new which would be nice.
 

Yeah, that personal freedom, less government in your lives, abide by the Constitution nonsense. Who needs that crap?
 



 
I find it hilarious that having enough common sense to be willing to compromise on occasion now makes someone "not conservative enough".
 
TheDemSocialist said:
For everyone screaming about "he wasnt conservative enough"
1.)You kidding me?
2.)There is not going to be a "more conservative" speaker to replace him...
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This is just a symptom of the continued rending of the GOP House. The right wingnut branch thinks the moderate wingnut branch is too liberal, and whoever is in charge has to recognize that they have to get Dem support to get anything through, thus making whoever is in charge hated by the right wingnut branch, who will force things like resignations.
 
The pure dysfunction of the Republican party claims another life long supporter. This bit of news still seems mild compared to the shock I felt when the House Majority Whip, Cantor, lost his seat because he was not "conservative enough." Cantor was the face of the conservative wing that was pushing Boehner further to the right.

Just really absurd stuff.
 

No. You'll always have ignorant racists who suck on the taxpayer teat with Medicare and SS and pretend that government taxes have never helped anyone like them.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
For everyone screaming about "he wasnt conservative enough"
1.)You kidding me?
2.)There is not going to be a "more conservative" speaker to replace him...
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I doubt you could find a more liberal replacement. Boehner was feckless, vindictive and ineffective. All the leading candidates for speaker are more conservative than he, which isn't surprising. He has been Obama's rubber stamp in the house. I hope he's out. Good riddance.
 

Wow !! So who is taking over from the far right then ?? I hope not Cruz !! If he does then the GOP will be split within itself.
 
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