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applegrove

(118,729 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:43 PM Oct 2015

"It is total confusion — a banana republic." Republican reaction to McCarthy not running for speaker

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“It is total confusion — a banana republic. Any plan, anything you anticipate, who knows what’ll happen. People are crying. They don’t have any idea how this will unfold at all.”

— Rep. Peter King (R-NY), quoted by the Washington Post, as he recounted seeing a handful of House Republicans weeping over the downfall of Kevin McCarthy and the broader discord within the Republican party.

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"It is total confusion — a banana republic." Republican reaction to McCarthy not running for speaker (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2015 OP
..... PeoViejo Oct 2015 #1
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! What shall we do? CTyankee Oct 2015 #2
Buy popcorn, and plenty of it. TheCowsCameHome Oct 2015 #11
i'm... not getting the feels 0rganism Oct 2015 #3
"people are crying" Skittles Oct 2015 #4
I love the idea of somebody in Congress calling it a "banana republic." Sweet sweet irony. (nt) enough Oct 2015 #5
I hope something good for us comes from this upaloopa Oct 2015 #6
Amen! Delphinus Oct 2015 #9
Banana underpants Oct 2015 #7
Speaker Boehner, the time is ripe for you to bring long overdue Bills before the House for a vote: Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #8
If we were a parliamentary system we could have election in a few weeks to replace them all. craigmatic Oct 2015 #10
But Id be willing to bet Boehner is laughing his ass off. bunnies Oct 2015 #12

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
2. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! What shall we do?
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:47 PM
Oct 2015

the poor crybabies.

Get a brain first, then get a spine once that is all figured out....

underpants

(182,848 posts)
7. Banana
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:01 PM
Oct 2015

The affair is something of an open secret in Washington, D.C. Reporters at other publications, lobbyists, congressional staffers of both parties all know about it. One staffer for a congressman describes it as the “biggest open secret” in D.C. A lobbyist describes Ellmers as a “social climber who has ingratiated herself” with McCarthy.

House leadership also knows about the affair. Speaker John Boehner reportedly told McCarthy to stop the affair once McCarthy was elected Majority Leader says a well placed congressional staffer. At least one leadership staffer doesn’t think the affair ended. “They are unusually close,” says the staffer who insists that the affair is going on. “It’s weird if he’s not ******* her.”

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
8. Speaker Boehner, the time is ripe for you to bring long overdue Bills before the House for a vote:
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:07 PM
Oct 2015

1) Long-term budget
2) Senate already passed comprehensive immigration Bill
3) Cancellation of the sequester
4) infrastructure spending
5) Climate change treaty ratifications
6) Gun control
7) Voting rights protections
8) Campaign money law reform

ETC.....Laws desperately needed and demanded by most folks, not the few fools you have let lead you, and now leading directly to this inevitable political Armageddon of the GOP.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the fools.

 

craigmatic

(4,510 posts)
10. If we were a parliamentary system we could have election in a few weeks to replace them all.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:21 PM
Oct 2015

These republicans shouldn't have power. They can't even govern themselves.

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