The last 2 fools I've heard interviewed have blamed it on Obama and the Democrats filibustering in the Senate.

...are you!!?

Poor Boehner is never going to get on the golf course permanently.

I know it's a serious position with huge responsibilities, but I must say I am amused by all this. lol

Why do we keep electing people to government offices who don't at all understand how government works?

I mean, really ... all it takes is paying some damn attention sophomore year in high school.

It paid off well. There was a new teacher that was moderate compared to the prior teacher was a hard conservative. The class behind me also performed poorly on standardized tests than my class so I breezed through the course with either a 98 or a 99 GPA each six weeks.

When I was in school civic was not taught except as a part of "social studies" which in itself seemed to be a poor substitute for a history class. Somehow that was supposed to be progressive, don't ask me why. I'd like to know if civics is still taught at most high schools; I doubt that it is. I'd love to be proven wrong.

.... with the GOP nominees all being a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and the Congressional delegation not able to fight its way out of a wet paper bag, President Sanders could sweep into the White House and start enacting that dad-burn' socialism!!

At last a major politico falls from BENGH
AZI!!!!!

oh wait. all the house republicans are inept idiots. whew!

I'm sure they can find an inept idiot for Speaker.

house GOP has a very deep bench of complete numbskulls. not to worry.

I was looking forward to having a Speaker unable to speak properly.

They will have a hard time finding another of his caliber.

I was looking forward to paying attention to McCarthy's speeches and press conferences for his word and grammar jumbles. But I've always rooted for Steve Scalise, speaker at a white supremacist group, for the job. He's perfect for it!

and would require both going down before a replacement veep could happen. possible, but not very likely.

besides, even the speaker did become president, i'm not sure a smart and/or ept republican would be any better....

IMO anyway. After watching them for 40 years now, I've come to the conclusion that strong conservatives are fundamentally incompetent to manage anything more complex or diverse than their own church's youth group.

Just as soon as he gets his foot removed from his mouth.

Who will be the speaker. It has better not be Chaffetz

Speaker Jason Chaffetz (an inept ideology) would be a huge help to insure a 2016 Republican disaster!

Having this idiot in charge for the two years running into a national election could further drive nearly everyone away from the Republican Party.

The short-term damage might be worth it........

OMG

VP is first in line.

Don't know if they can twist his arm though.

make his move.

and dirty-tricks a blind man could see through. and that's probably not ALL that's
in his closet either..

Must be a coincidence.

I'm sure McCarthy simply discovered a sudden urge to spend more time with his family.

I'd love to see every congress-critter (and staff) (and especially lobbyists) be subject to random but frequent drug and alcohol testing as well as thorough anal-sys of "our representatives" sexual dealings outside of the holy sacrament of marriage (as defined by SomeBody.)

That old Kevin was doing some private "legislating" with Renee Elmers. AKA "Not His Wife".

Now I'm fucking shocked!

I hadn't thought of that. But, yes, the rumor is a woman.

I've heard that the speaker can be from outside the congressional body. And nobody's had more "out-of-body" experience than Sarah Seance.

To add: If you've seen any of her recent YouTube meanderings, you know no one could speak better'n her!

... it seemed that Space Ship Sarah Palin had left Earth orbit.

Please?

Mr Cantaloupe Calves. He'd do wonders for the Latino vote

The peanut butter cup has finally melted all the way through, and the thin shell of evil Republican leadership can no longer contain the oozing mass of stupid that is the modern Republican Party.

Mark my words, this is a disaster so large that I think our President now has a better-than-even chance of getting his own budget passed by Congress both this year and next, simply because he's the only one who did Congress' job and submitted a complete budget that can be easily passed.

The way he's gonna do it is kind of dark. When the government defaults, something secret happens which compels lawmakers to approve the President's own proposal. We saw that happen in 2011 and John Boehner has completely given up on the House's bullshit every year since to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

But now it's gonna happen again for sure, probably in only a few weeks, and probably again next year. So our President has a shot at having his two most effective years as a lame duck while the GOP still controls Congress and the Supreme Court. Because Republicans are THAT stupid, now, ha ha ha!

Interesting.

I can hardly wait until Monday when Cokie Roberts tells us how this will be bad for Democrats.

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I've seen it over and over with school boards and town councils. The members will try to choose their weakest individual to lead because the members know they can push the person around. The net effect is a group incapable of accomplishing anything of substance, and is often the symptom of a failing organization.

When a school board or town council elects a strong leader, the civic organization is able to accomplish more.

Now if the Democrats were smart about this what they should do is go to the few sane Republicans in the House and say tell you what. Put forward a sane candidate for House Speaker - such as Charlie Dent (R-PA) or Chris Smith (R-NJ) - and we will vote for that candidate instead of throwing our votes away by voting for one of our own in a contest we couldn't win.

It wouldn't be perfect and there's no telling what sort of swing a "sane" Republican might do once elected. But on the other hand that might neuter the teabaggers and stop their dreams of realizing teabag glory in the Speaker's chair.

for the short-term damage a teabagger speaker could cause, however.....

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

---Napoleon Bonaparte

He's more anti-abortion than anyone in Congress.

There is a piece of legislation he's pushing that I've been watching. It hasn't gone anywhere, but he'll bring it up again in the next session.

Last night on Maddow, she read a letter by Rep. Walter Jones that warned the three men running for Speaker, that if any of them had in skeletons in the closet, he should resign, so as not to embarrass the party. Is that why McCarthy withdrew?

anything. Heaven forbid they actually have to do anything. They hate to think that they have to leave grade school and advance to middle school and have to act like young adults. They can't handle the job of acting like teenagers, they want to stay in elementary school where all the have to do is play with crayons and learn their A-B-C's.

It's almost as if we don't have a representative at all.

to find a House GOP Speaker who be in the spotlight for more than 15 minutes.

this is so damn funny

Let's hope the Republican Policy Committee Chairman wins.

Luke Messer.

He couldn't string a proper sentence together either! lol 'Speaker' of the House. Oh, what a relief.

Not that there is any one better -- but good lord, the only people who would have enjoyed that would be the comedians. And they have enough material at the moment.

....and that's to nominate a democrat! They are so screwed up, at least they could unite in opposing everything a dem speaker would propose. Hold it! They're already doing that! But.....it's working. They don't have to do a thing except say no and they won't have to even propose anything! Okay....that's a lock!

but sorry I don't have a link

He's convinced that this shows the disarray of the Republican Party and that the inability to select a Speaker demonstrated that it is breaking apart.

No link - just now live on MSNBC.

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Palin is McCarthy. McCarthy is Palin. Anyone else see this? Are they the same person? Have they ever been in the same room at the same time, or is one dressed as the other?

Either they let the crazies have the speaker's gavel, and cause a disaster, or....

They put forth (if they can find one) a sane person, who can only win by alienating the crazies and win only with the support of Democrats who, as has been pointed out, can't pick the speaker anyway. BUT...if they do that, they let the crazies scream that their speaker is a RINO who wasn't even the choice of their party, and is really a Democrat in disguise (hmmm, come to think of it, this whole scenario is starting to sound familiar, but that's for another day). There isn't ONE Republican member of the House about whom that can be truthfully said, but "what's truth got to do, got to do with it?" That's one thing Teabaggers never let get in their way.

So, here is their choice: a nut case who won't get anything done and cause a mess, or a non-nut case who will spend over half his time defending his Republican credentials against accusations from other Republicans. It's a lose-lose proposition. (To any Republican trolls reading this, that's "loose-loose" in Republicanese, in case you can't find English-Republicanese on your Google translator).

its such a shame...

I'm sure they'll yet find a way to turn this comedy into tragedy

It's bound to be a lunatic.

And I'm not even sure there is the one left in there.

(totally lifted from Jerry Seinfeld from another context.)

and stay a few extra months to get this straightened out.

I think he'll tell them that they made their bed, now they can sleep in it.

Not that I feel the least bit sorry for him. If they can not elect a speaker by the end of the month the only thing they could do is elect a temporary speaker and then have elections. Boehner was suppose to step down at the end of the month. I just don't see how he can do it.

Handcuffed to the Titanic ....

crazy or dumb enough.

Screwy Louie for Speaker!

Uncontrolled chaos and destruction of government is always a wonderful thing according to the Tea Party.

America can only be strengthened by total annihilation of our government and elimination of law and order, I guess.

Sometimes, just sometimes, when one inserts his foot in his mouth so blatantly, he looses some teeth.

-- Mal

Who fucking cares?
What is the difference between one asshole blocking everything Obama or the Democrats want to do and another asshole blocking it?
So long as it is good for the wealthy and fuck everyone else.

I guess I "care" insomuch as this development puts it on display. for all voters
to see, the utter disarray and lack of any semblance of responsible governing.

I don't know how anyone with 1/2 a brain could have expected anything else,
when you elect people to govern who openly & vehemently HATE government;
but there you have it.

This can't help but help the Dems in 2016 election IMHO.

makes sense

He was so stupid! He had no clue! There's no way he could possibly handle the job. He was FUCKING PERFECT!

What are the chances that there is yet another knuckle-dragging drooling idiot behind him in line to be Speaker of the House, huh? You don't just find 'em that dumb, except at a Republican caucus....

Hey, wait a minute....

2014. Where were you? Staying home watching Kardashians? Watching Mob Wives? Watching crap? You didn't know there was an election? Oh. It's time for Democrats to take back the House in 2016, but with gerrymandering, it is very difficult.

gerrymandering? it is what it is, so we must change it. Uphill? yep. Which is
exactly why it's going to take a massive political revolution, as called for by Bernie.

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