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September 25, 2015

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Lazybusy

First, maybe.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Except for a hand full of back boned patriots they all might as well resign.

Perhaps GOPE should be replaced with GOPi; the Grand Old Party of invertebrates.

henry

Maybe they can get rid of Obama on their next bill.

Captain Hate on the iPad

NEXT!

FTL

A "clean" spending bill. Funding a network of baby chop shops is clean now.

If the sun explodes today or that Yellowstone supervolcano decides to blow, my last thought should be, "At least we had it coming."

Eric in Boise

Heh. Fox uses "Speaker Shock" as its headline, but Drudge wins again with "One Last Cry".

Beasts of England

So my speculation was correct? Boehner's head in exchange for PP funding?

Old Lurker

Looks like it Beasts.

centralcal

Now, if only McConnell would also resign.

matt

As for me, I won't shed a tear.

Beasts of England

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

How in the heck does the 'leadership' think that giving up Boehner will compensate for continuing to fund the dem agenda. It makes it even worse. So scared to have balls that they'd sacrifice the Speaker, instead of fighting for their base.

Bullshit

narciso79

yes, under no condition, do they stand on principle,

henry

From our lurking friend:

Please correct Beasts for me.

"It's not funding the Dem agenda. It's funding the DC Agenda."

Beasts of England

We are blessed to have some truly brilliant people here and I hope that one of them will explain to me how this is a win for the base - because I don't see it. At all.

Beasts of England

Well, that's the real explanation, henry. Thanks, ChiLurker!

matt

As in Europe it's an inside game. Cronies of both parties. Byzantine waste and fraud. Zero accountability and now, an ever thinning veneer of law and justice.

I wonder which lobbying firm Boehner will join. His Oompa Loompa schtick should play well.

Captain Hate on the iPad

Tossing OrangeDrank and caving on funding the beast is exactly the wrong signal to send and I hope Trump, Carly, Carson and Cruz are ready to make that exact point.

henry

Its a "let them eat cake" move from the beltway. Boehner will be in a high profile, high pay lobbying job in no time at all. Probably head of the Chamber.

narciso

that's why I went with the Who, on the other thread,

Threadkiller

Has McCarthy been around DC as long as Rubio and Cruz?

Threadkiller

Narciso posted this in a different thread:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/24/bitter-truce-fox-news-ailes-furious-at-national-reviews-rich-lowry-for-forcing-fox-to-cede-moral-high-ground-to-donald-trump/

Alternate headline: Bither Wins Again

Threadkiller

Bither?

Birther Wins Again

rich@gmu

I'm not following: for the GOP congress to preserve Planed Parenthood funding, Boehner resigned his seat?

why not get him a job at PP-at least he can finally be honest.

Tonto

Pub date October 20!

rich@gmu

Posted by: FTL | September 25, 2015 at 11:21 AM

in that kinda of mood too FTL.

Marlene

Ha. I've been in a text war with the daughter. I said,well at least the "crazies" represent their constituents,unlike some people I could name.
Our lurking friend is correct (waves from Maine) it is about the DC agenda, the "process."

Extraneus

Maine mayor pushing bill to post welfare recipients’ addresses online

“We will be submitting a bill to the next legislative session asking that a website be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole.

“After all, the public has a right to know how its money is being spent,” Macdonald said.

GUS

This is EXACTLY what is wrong with AMERICA.

There is ZERO REASON that THE DEATH HUT should get one cent in tax money. Yet deals are being made and careers ended to save a HALF BILLION in funding for a business that murders babies and sells their parts.
Boehner is CATHOLIC.

maryd

Thanks, Tonto. This could be a real morale booster!

rich@gmu

thanks for the Wrechard link.

>>>The Russian moves appear to be part of an deliberate plan prepared long in advance to bring the Western Alliance into an ambush zone. The most disturbing aspect of it is that president Obama didn’t even see it coming.<<<


Appalled

TK:

The idea that news coverage on any network of a Presidential is subject to a negotiation process is..., I don't know, profoundly weird.

Pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter

I do not understand why Boehner resigning has anything to do with funding PP?

rich@gmu

Ex-

nice thought won't go anywhere (it will get stripped out or struck down).

James D

I read the report rse linked two threads ago

(http://static.politico.com/8c/3c/79ac689c4666b76c261aab4907ae/report-on-stem-workforce.pdf)

It's every bit as horrifying as she said it was. And it's clear that far too many in the GOP are on board with the agenda presented there and the steps planned to implement it. Or, at best, they are unable to see or comprehend just how toxic it is.

MM (I think) posted in the previous thread that we survived the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and many other massive calamities. But this is different, because the very abilities and habits and knowledge that enabled us to survive them are all being deliberately warped and destroyed.

People like Boehner, and McTurtle, and most likely whoever the new Speaker will end up being, are all OK with this madness, and that makes them enemies just as surely as the progs are.

rich@gmu

pagar-

yeah, i'm stumped. I need the coloring book version.

narciso

it's maskirovna, deception, that was their strategy all along,

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

I'm presuming the supposed scenario is the conservatives in congress are so fed up with Boehner they would agree not to "shut down" the government in exchange for his head in the hopes the new guy won't be same as the old guy.

Marlene

Ext @ 11:53...yes and the Democrats are questioning the legality. In the meantime,LePage and the Maine GOP are preparing citizen initiatives to place on the ballot for welfare reform and eliminating the state income tax. LePage is done working with the Dems in the legislature. The moonbats are calling him the "ungovernor."

Janet S.

Maine mayor pushing bill to post welfare recipients’ addresses online

I think that is a good idea.
anecdotally ... we knew a family that lived in subsidized housing, listing only the father's income.
But they had 2 grown kids that lived there & worked too. The mom worked for cash being a nanny. We knew them because the youngest daughter played travel soccer & the team paid her fees.
Everyone in the family had a car, cellphones,...they had cable TV, season tickets for Kings Dominion (like 6 Flags) & local sports teams.

At the time, we had 1 car, no cell phone, no cable TV, no AC, & were paying for their daughter. I don't know...it all gets too weird.
Life is choices.
Some cultures don't think anything about taking whatever they can get for free.
I'd be ashamed.

Threadkiller

Like negotiations to keep ears off limits or to limit questions asked because the candidate already answered a few questions.

Is that what you mean, Appalled?

Janet S.

I do not understand why Boehner resigning has anything to do with funding PP?

Same here.

rich@gmu

Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | September 25, 2015 at 12:04 PM

ok. so the GOP goes along with PP funding but Boehner gets to spend some quality time at the bar ...

The GOP Path to Electoral Success

1. Fund the Dem agenda.
2. Sack a leader who funded the Dem agenda.
3. Continue to fund the Dem agenda.
4.???
5. Win the Presidential election.

PDinDetroit

Boehner SELF-ABORTS. Have a nice life.

DebinNC

Does Kasich pick Boehner's replacement? How about Ken Blackwell?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Dear GOP House Members – Electing McCarthy Will Fix Nothing

Threadkiller

My guess is that Dondi did not expect this reaction:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgYJbGB2ho

Hahaha!!

rich@gmu

>>>it's maskirovna, deception, that was their strategy all along,

Posted by: narciso | September 25, 2015 at 12:03 PM<<<

seems so. The Russians can use their navy and their Greek sources and really give the Euros a "refugee" crisis, just in time for a critical maintenance shutdown of some gas lines.

rich@gmu

special election in the district would be my guess. any Ohioians know.

Threadkiller
A Saudi prince was arrested at a hillside compound near Beverly Hills on Wednesday after being accused of trying to force a worker to perform a sex act on him, Los Angeles police said.

http://ktla.com/2015/09/24/saudi-prince-28-arrested-beverly-glen-compound-for-alleged-sex-crime-lapd/

Normal neighbors.

Beasts of England

What our lurker was saying is that it's not a win for the base, it's a win for DC. And hopefully the dupes will be placated by Boehner being vacated.

henry

Xi and Obama agreed not to "conduct cybertheft of intellectual property."

That would be because there isn't any left to steal?

Note: stealing SSN's, fingerprints, etc is still cool.

rich@gmu

so it is just more failure theater Iggy? a bit more grand, but otherwise ...

what would prevent the Dems from voting for a shutdown ... if the opening bid was the Speaker of the House?

DebinNC

He's in his 40s iirc, but Rubio looks too young and "round cheeked" to be POTUS. A month or two of MOzo's Rules for Eating with fix him right up.

rich@gmu

beasts-

still not getting it.

on the plus side I'm listening to some soundgraden to take the edge off.

Threadkiller
Father Conroy, a native of Washington state, is only the second Catholic priest, and the first Jesuit, to serve the House. He was nominated after the House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Catholic who graduated from Jesuit-run Xavier University, said he wanted a Jesuit to replace Father Daniel Coughlin, who served for 10 years and was the House’s first Catholic chaplain.

http://m.ncregister.com/daily-news/priest-is-the-speakers-choice#.VgV2y8nn-BY

Extraneus

A 51-year-old German woman is being evicted from her home of 16 years to make way for refugees, with shelters already full across the country

The woman lives in the small western German town of Nieheim

Marlene

This is how I understand the "process". The Senate will not defund Planned Parenthood, thanks to Ayotte,Collins,Murkowski and several other RINOs. Boehner's first priority was to keep the government from shutting down. The conservatives would have made a motion to vacate the chair. He supposedly didn't have the votes,he's fed up with dealing with the conservatives,they've been the bane of his existence.
So,he's done.

Captain Hate on the iPad

The Constitution says there will be a special election to replace Johnny B.

Beasts of England

Seems only fair, Extraneus. She was probably an AGW denier.

rich@gmu

>>>A new WMUR/CNN New Hampshire Primary Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, shows the Vermont U.S. senator leading the former secretary of state, 46 percent to 30 percent, with the vice president at 14 percent.<<<

the hell broth needs more howlet's wing.

Beasts of England

Failure theater and agitprop all the way down, rich. Black Hole Sun would be appropriate.

narciso

she's done, just doesn't know it yet.

narciso

I meant the real reason for Garfield, to go to the Pasta buffet,

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Matt Labash on microagressions;
The Cocked Fist Culture

Beasts of England

What does the living Constitution say about the election process, Captain?

DebinNC

"The future ain't what it used to be" [Yogi Berra]

rich@gmu

and the torygraph couldn't help themselves ... at the end of the article is a staged picture of a cute baby swaddled in a parka.

so touching, so moving.

narciso

well the Post jumped the megalodon too, today,

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Guy who sounds like a lib; Grow up and stop trying to protect everyone's feelings or we'll live Fahrenheit 451 for real.

Appalled

TK:

My prior comment was said in my role as entertainer...er...observer, and was not an attack on Trump (for once). I am trying to visualize Hillary, for example, having a long talk with the head of NBC News about what questions reporters could ask her -- and that being the stuff of tweets and internet posts. I could see Hillary wanting to have the conversation, but I can't see the network doing it (at least in the public way all this seems to be going down with Fox.)

It really is interesting -- probably because Trump delivers ratings, and a lot of loyal Fox News viewers are also Trump supporters.

rich@gmu

beasts-

Fresh Tendrils ...

Ex-

and thinking about that story it would be a good way for the Germans to start evicting American servicemembers, families, and expats ...

narciso

well we saw how it turned out with Sigonella,

Appalled, 'you're shocked gambling is going on' in Rick's Bar, why after 7 years,

Threadkiller

Appalled, I did not think it was an attack on Trump.

My response was an attack on the media and Obama and how, in'07-'08, he did dictate to them the coverage rules.

Jeff Dobbs

Is this the feel a song coming on thread?

Beasts of England

Free Bird?

Marlene

I have to wonder about the organization or maybe disorganization of Hillary's campaign. For instance,Bernie is the keynote speaker at the Portsmouth (NH) Democratic Committee banquet tonight. Hillary should have been scheduled to speak at that event months ago. Maybe she declined,she hasn't done many yuge events. Not that I care,but her organization seems weak.

narciso

no, that's next door,

I've concluded, it is too clever by half, there has to be another reason why this happened,

Captain Hate on the iPad

OrangeDrank is speaking now; happy hour came early today.

narciso

the barnes piece, wasn't as bad, as suggested, it proferred the revolutionary notion, that the top men, are not as self aware as they pretend to be,
I know shocker,

Rick Ballard

Marlene,

Consider what happens to the Clinton Coven when she withdraws. She is surrounded with sycophants willing to maintain the cocoon even though the worm inside is brain dead. Removing Abedin and Mills as support mechanisms may allow the worm to just expire.

narciso

some odd variant of godwin I wasn't aware of,


http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/09/frances-marine-le-pen-to-stand-trial/

Rocco

Ramble On?

narciso

would that were so,

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2015/09/25/abc-laments-boehner-departure-will-make-life-harder-obama

Captain Hate on the iPad

That ABC transcript laments that people actually expect their Congress critters to represent them. Their entire MO is protect 404.

Eric in Boise

Beasts, I'll see your "Free Bird" and raise you a "Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart".

Jane

I'm stumped too about this:

"Several members of the Freedom Caucus, the conservative group which led the revolt against Boehner’s leadership, said they will now support the spending bill without demands to defund Planned Parenthood attached to it."

Anyone figure it out?

DebinNC

Boehner just stuck around long enough to get that pic of himself blubbering behind Pope Francis as he addressed Congress. Good riddance!

Beasts of England

But has Phish ever covered that as a Barbershop Quartet, EiB?

(I'm not kidding...)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W_XI7hm7ygk

narciso

the bit about history rhyming:

Nixon's first challenger was Michigan Governor George W. Romney. A Gallup poll in mid-1967 showed Nixon with 39%, followed by Romney with 25%. However, Romney, after a fact finding trip to Vietnam, told a news reporter that he had been "brainwashed" by the military and the diplomatic corps into supporting the Vietnam War; the remark led to weeks of ridicule in the national news media. Since he had turned against American involvement in Vietnam, Romney planned to run as the anti-war Republican version of Eugene McCarthy.[39]

Nixon subsequently came with the margin of error with Johnson, by the fall of '67

narciso

the story makes as much sense as 'the video provoked benghazi,'

Rocco

You Keep Sayin' That You're Leavin'

(which IMO is the greatest Blues song ever, ironically, by a white guy.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXzC39EDrY

Beasts of England

A really, really white guy at that...

Buckeye

While the Boner press conference was going on both Mrs.Buckeye and Buckeyette were yelling at the TV.

Only thing I am sure of is that Boner was probably late for his 3 martini lunch.

Other thing I would be willing to bet is he already has a K street gig lined up.

Time to make some REAL money.

Ann

Let's start a Mark Steyn for Speaker movement.
#marksteynforspeaker

and you will love this:

https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/09/New-Report-93-Increase-In-Immigration-From-Saudi-Arabia

From 2010 through July 2014, the following sending countries experienced the largest increase in the share of immigrants living in America:

Saudi Arabia (up 93 percent);

Bangladesh (up 37 percent);

Iraq (up 36 percent);

Egypt (up 25 percent);

Pakistan, India, and Ethiopia (all up 24 percent);

Nigeria and Ghana (both up 21 percent)


Threadkiller

Which members, Jane?

rse

This is truly horrific. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260243/european-leftists-want-seize-homes-house-muslim-daniel-greenfield

It does fit with the UN announcing it intends to close the gap between the public and private sectors. Government controls use, while taxes are probably still owed by the owner who cannot use it.

Janet S.

http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-house-speaker-john-boehner

Very short. Something doesn't seem right.

Jeff Dobbs

Is this the Brady thread?

narciso

it's a very good deal, honestly,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/obama-to-reporters-china-has-agreed-to-cease-cyber-espionage-and-theft-video/

henry

Well narciso. Both eat dog.

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