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House Speaker John Boehner is resigning from Congress

House Speaker John Boehner is resigning from Congress

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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
House Speaker John Boehner is resigning from Congress, according to a report.

The top House leader will vacate his chair at the end of October, his aides told The New York Times on Thursday.

Boehner (R-Ohio) had been facing pressure over whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood, the newspaper said.

There has been heavy discontent among the more conservative wing of the House GOP. A conservative Republican had tried stripping Boehner of his power late July.



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Ole Sniffles :crying: been under pressure from the out-of-control right wing of the GOP for sometime now.

 
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner
(R-OH) today issued the following statement:

"My mission every day is to fight for a smaller, less costly,
and more accountable government. Over the last five years,
our majority has advanced conservative reforms that will help
our children and their children. I am proud of what we have
accomplished.

"The first job of any Speaker is to protect this institution
that we all love. It was my plan to only serve as Speaker until
the end of last year, but I stayed on to provide continuity to the
Republican Conference and the House. It is my view, however,
that <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">prolonged leadership turmoil</span> would do irreparable
damage to the institution. To that end, I will resign the
Speakership and my seat in Congress on October 30.

"Today, my heart is full with gratitude for my family, my
colleagues, and the people of Ohio’s Eighth District. God bless
this great country that has given me - the son of a bar owner from
Cincinnati - the chance to serve."


- See more at: http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-house-speaker-john-boehner#sthash.Zyls6QJd.dpuf
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Does this signal that an even sharper turn to the GOP right is on its way ???


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With John Boehner and Harry Reid leaving, America is much freer and more safer. D.C. has become a more livable city. He was part of the Ohio Taliban delegation sent to D.C. that seized power and brought the dark ages to America.

In Afghanistan it is the opposite, they refer to his name when they want to describe political leadership that is anti-equality, anti-intellectual, anti-liberty, with extreme reverence to ancient religious text as a basis for decisions on what is right and wrong.

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The Dark Truth Of John Boehner's Resignation
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RepubliKlans cheer & applaud John Boehner's resignation



September 26, 2015

This is something that should not slip by lightly. The video above is of a roomful of Republican voters interrupting the speech of a Republican Senator and presidential candidate with a standing ovation at the news that the Republican House Speaker has been forced to resign. It is hard to watch this outburst of joyful anger (or angry joy?) without wondering: what in the world is going on with the Republican party? Why would news of the humiliating resignation of John Boehner spark an immediate Republican celebration?


Mr. Boehner certainly was unpopular with his own Republican voters. The day of his resignation a WSJ/NBC poll found that "some 72% of Republican primary voters said they were dissatisfied with the ability of Mr. Boehner and GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell to achieve Republican goals." But that phrase - failure "to achieve Republican goals" - is remarkable. As a very good "Abbreviated Pundit Round-up" details today, John Boehner and the Republicans overall never had the votes to impose Republican policies. As Phillip Bump notes, the only "compromises" Boehner made "have been between reality and fantasy."

Indeed, it is notable that when conservative writer Erick Erickson writes a column titled "Why John Boehner Had To Go," he can't actually name or describe anything Boehner did wrong - only arguing vaguely and nonsensically that Boehner (somehow) held his own Republican party "in contempt."


When forced to explain this supposed "contempt," numerous Republicans (even presidential candidates) list not only Boehner's (non-existent) failure to stop Obamacare, but also his supposed enabling of Obamacare. As Mike Huckabee explained, "When people sent [Republicans] here, they didn't send them to give the president more power on Obamacare[.]" Think about that: after total legislative obstruction, a government shut-down, more than 50 votes to repeal Obamacare, an ensuing presidential election, two Supreme Court lawsuits, and other pending litigation - - Republicans are livid with the belief that John Boehner has worked with the President to strengthen Obamacare.

No sane political observer could think that. So, what gives? As Jonathan Chait explains, we are witnessing a sort of collective Republican denial where they cannot accept that they are not the ruling party, not the "deciders" (to use a former president's phrase):
To understand the pressures that brought about Boehner’s demise as an ideological split badly misconstrues the situation. The small band of right-wing noisemakers in the House who made Boehner’s existence a living hell could not identify any important substantive disagreements with the object of their wrath. . . . The source of the disagreement was tactical, not philosophical. Boehner’s tormentors refused to accept the limits of his political power. . . . This discontent runs much deeper and wider than Boehner. . . . Boehner had the misfortune of leading, or attempting to lead, his party in an era when it had run up to the limits of crazy, where the only unexplored frontiers of extremism lay beyond the reach of its Constitutional powers.
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What is important here is not that Republicans object to the limits of their power, but that Republicans apparently cannot accept that such limits even exist. Greg Sargent recently caught this in a very revealing FOX News poll:
[Republicans] failed to block Obama’s transformation of the country; that must be because they didn’t even try, so they must be complicit. But this failure, too, is structural. Republicans don’t have the votes to surmount Dem filibusters or Obama vetoes. The idea that this can be overcome through sheer force of will (the argument conservatives are making in favor of another shutdown fight) is just another version of [the "Big Lie"].

Indeed, the Fox News poll unwittingly captures what is particularly problematic about this last one. It finds that 60 percent of Republicans feel betrayed by their party, and that 66 percent of Republicans don’t think their party did all it could to block Obama’s agenda. The poll asks why respondents think their party leaders failed at this: they didn’t really want to stop Obama; they weren’t smart enough; they would rather fight each other. The Fox poll doesn’t even offer respondents the option of choosing the real reason — that Republicans structurally lack the votes!
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You see? Lack of majority political power is not even a possibility. When, in the video above, Republican supporters jumped from their chairs at news of Boehner's resignation, it is because someone or something defective had to be blocking the Republicans' exercise of their undisputed authority. With Boehner gone, Republicans have something legitimate to celebrate in their minds - the restoration of their thwarted authority.

It sounds crazy, I know, but <span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><b>this represents the true "dark side" of Boehner's resignation: it is another significant step in the Republican party's shocking withdrawal from our system of democratic governance. Specifically, it presages a doubling-down of the Republicans' intentions to assert "negative control," where government shutdowns, hostage-taking, and (the immensely dangerous) debt-ceiling fights threaten to become more determinative than electoral outcomes and a functioning government.</b></span> As one Republican writer put it, the emerging Republican belief is that threats of government destruction combined with the inherent rightness of Republican beliefs "could be so strong (as Ted Cruz was of his proposal to defund Obamacare) that Senate Democrats, the Obama White House and the mainstream media would, for once, finally, this time, cave in and let the House Republicans have their way." (And the use of the words "for once, finally" means "rightly," "appropriately," consistent with the "true" distribution of power.)
If anyone doubts that this is where we are increasingly headed, Steve Benen has a useful summary <span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><b>of the growing history of Republicans' "hostage governing":
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• April 2011: House Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts.

• July 2011: Republicans create the first-ever debt-ceiling crisis, threatening to default on the nation’s debts unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts.

• September 2011: Republicans threaten another shutdown.

• April 2012: Republicans threaten another shutdown.

• December 2012: Republicans spend months refusing to negotiate in the lead up to the so-called “fiscal cliff.”

• January 2013: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis.

• September 2013: Republicans threaten another shutdown.

• October 2013: Republicans actually shut down the government.

• February 2014: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis.

• December 2014: Republicans threaten another shutdown.

• February 2015: Republicans threaten a Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

• September 2015: Republicans threaten another shutdown [over Planned Parenthood].


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As Jonathan Chait, Greg Sargent and others note, the forced resignation of John Boehner is another step in the above line of this undemocratic behavior, and not some gossipy, intra-mural Republican politics.

<span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><b> What we have here is one of two major political parties increasingly disengaging from the democratic process. Did you know that President Obama is an illegitimate President because he is not a "natural born citizen"? Or that he won election by promising "free stuff" to minorities? That minorities and illegal aliens are engaged in massive voter fraud? Or, that popular elections of U.S. Senators should be taken away? That some "Boehner Rule" or "Hastert Rule" exists which neuters any Democratic House votes? Or that is OK for Republicans to filibuster every proposed law while in the minority, but the filibuster should be repealed now that Republicans have a Senate majority? Or that the Electoral College should be reformed to provide proportional votes only in "Blue States"? . . . or, that policy outcomes should not be determined by elections but instead by holding hostage the federal government or the "full faith and credit" of the U.S.?</b></span>


Most importantly, did you realize that all of the above are necessary to enact the majority will of the people? Because - believe it or not - that is what the Republicans believe.


The conclusion of Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein has been widely quoted, but not sufficiently absorbed:
One of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.​
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/26/1425070/-The-Dark-Truth-Of-John-Boehner-s-Resignation




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The RepubliKlan Party <img src="http://www.jmgads.com/kkk2.jpg" width="100"> of 2015 is:

• Unapologetically proud RACIST
• Virulently HOMOPHOBIC
• Anti-Sex Education in schools
• Anti-Birth Control
• Anti- Immigrants
• Anti- ANY Minimum Wage increase
• Anti- Student Loans (big cuts in Pell grants; blocked interest rate cut on loans)
• Anti-Abortion Rights (republiklans were silent when Dr. George Tiller was murdered)
• Anti-Consumer Protection (pro-tort reform)
• Anti- Climate Change Science Reality
• Anti- Environmental Clean-Up (Piyush Jindal of LA blocked law mandating oil corp. clean up of gulf coast)
• Anti- Infrastructure $$$$ Replacement (U.S. bridges & roads are old & crumbling)
• Anti-Regulating The Banksters (want to repeal Dodd-Frank)
• Anti-Social Security Insurance (want to end it & send the existing money to Wall street)
• Anti-Medicare (want to send Grandma into the clutches of the "Health Care Mafia" with a coupon)
• Anti-Unemployment Insurance (want to end it)
• Anti- Healthy School Lunch for kids (adamantly fought Michelle Obama's healthy school lunch program)
• Anti-Education Standards (republiklans want to close the Dept. of Education & teach biblical creationism)
• Anti-W.I.C. (republiklan congress recently cut money for Women Infants & Children program)
• Anti- Environmental Conservation Laws (want to close the EPA & burn MORE coal)
• Anti-Food Saftey Inspections (republiklan congress recently cut US food saftey budget)
• Anti- Ingredient Labels on Food (republiklans don't want you to know)
• Anti-Progressive Taxation (republiklans are against raising the 15% tax Millionaires & Billionaires pay)
• Anti-Banning the Death Penalty (278 innocent people released from Death Row since 1989)
• Anti- Restoring Habeas corpus (republiklans NOT against "disappearing" people)
• Anti-Separation Of Church & State (republiklans want to mandate Christian prayer ONLY in schools)
• Anti- Government Funding of Scientific Research (republiklans have slashed funding i.e. stem cell research)
• Anti-Feminism (woman should be submissive to men; it's in the bible)
• Anti-Affirmative Action (republiklans say "there is NO racism in AmeriKKKa)
• Anti-Department of Labor (republiklans believe overtime pay should be abolished)
• Anti-Small Business Administration (want to abolish it)
• Anti-Substantially Increasing Foreign Aid (republiklan congress just cut food aid to AFRICA)
• Anti-Government Student College Tuition Grants (republiklans want to dramatically cut PELL grants & other Education programs)
• Anti-ANY Gun Control
• Anti- Non-Christian Religion Tolerance
• Anti- Universal Health Care
• Anti- Ban Against Torture (republiklans support "rectal" feeding & slicing of genitals)
• Anti- ANY Cut In Military Spending
• Anti- Pay Increase For US Soldiers (republiklans consistently vote NO)
• Anti- Increase in Veterans Benefits (republiklans want to convert military pensions into 401K's)
• Anti- Equalizing Penalty for Crack/ Powder Cocaine Conviction
• Anti- Womens Health Care (republiklans vote to defund Planned Parenthood)
• Anti- Legislation Banning Outsourcing (republiklans voted AGAINST law prohibiting outsourcing by companies $$$$$ bailed out by U.S. taxpayers)




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This what an uninformed, non voting public get in their government. Or maybe this is what those that don't want you to vote get.

source: Daily Kos

'David Duke without the baggage' to run for House majority leader


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Speaker John Boehner is resigning in large part because his House Republican caucus is in ungovernable disarray. Which means the leadership elections to replace him and whoever moves up to replace him should be enormous fun of the sort that depletes world popcorn stockpiles. One big move on that front is that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise reportedly plans to run for majority leader.

If you can't quite place the name Steve Scalise, I'll make it easy for you: He's the member of House Republican leadership who spoke to a David Duke-founded white supremacist group in 2002, and before and after that accumulated quite the record of racially suspect votes in the state legislature. Despite those revelations, he remained a member in good standing of Republican leadership, and now:
House staff members, who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Scalise is preparing a run for majority leader.

That means likely candidates for House speaker are current Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who has been leading a coalition of conservative members insisting that Boehner and other GOP leaders take a hard line on defunding Planned Parenthood, even it means a government shutdown.
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It's too bad Scalise isn't really going for it by running for speaker, but still—a serious candidate for majority leader who used to bill himself as "David Duke without the baggage."
 
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