Boehner Out

House Speaker John Boehner will resign as Speaker (and as House member?) at the end of October. This seems to clear the way for a continuing resolution that funds the US government, including Planned Parenthood. Happy Halloween.

From the WaPo:

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), faced with a constant conservative rebellion, told Republicans Friday morning that he will resign at the end of October, according to aides and lawmakers in a closed-door meeting.

The resignation will end a nearly five-year reign as speaker, allowing House Republicans to approve a short-term government funding bill that will avert a shutdown of federal agencies. Boehner’s hold on the speaker’s gavel had grown increasingly unsteady amid threats from more than 30 Republicans that they would force a no-confidence vote in his speaker’s position, which would have forced him to rely on Democratic votes in order to remain in charge. It’s unclear whether Boehner is just resigning the speakership next month or also abandoning his House seat.

The shocking move means there’s unlikely to be a government shutdown next week.  Following Boehner’s announcement, House Republicans said there was agreement to pass a clean spending bill to avert a government shutdown. 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.

 

Comments

[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.