Crier John Boehner to resign
WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, will resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, throwing Congress into chaos as it tries to avert a government shutdown.
Mr. Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1990, made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning.
The Ohio representative struggled from almost the moment he took the speaker’s gavel in 2011 to manage the challenges of divided government and to hold together his fractious and increasingly conservative Republican members.
Note that any chaos and gridlock cited by the NYSlimes is entirely the GOP’s fault. King Barry’s recalcitrance, arrogance and illegality is never mentioned.
LAST CALL for Cryin’ John.
I’ll drink to that, Bob.
Was it the Pope who scared Boehner senseless, or Harry Reid’s exercise buddies?
Kazoos on parade
That’s not a kazoo
Nor this
but it is a parade
speaking of Pope Francis, that was a great political speech he gave at the House yesterday. But how many souls did he save, I wonder?
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i nominate Mark Levin to be the new Speaker of the House.
It’s at least a year overdue.
Four and a half, Ernst. Four and a half.
How bad is this asshole going to fuck us on the way out?
LMC…the Pope, or John Boehner ?
Boehner in press conference: “I’ve done everything I can over my term as Speaker to strengthen the institution.”
The man convicts himself. The beauty of the confession is manifest in the ignorance he expresses.
He thought the walls and barbed wire were to keep the hoi polloi out, not the inmates in.
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The poppa, he makka me cry.
As I believe I said lo these many years ago, “Boehner? Are you fucking INSANE?” (or words to that effect, I don’t remember the exact phrasing).
Having the Great Unwashed elect that jug-eared Doofus as President was bad enough.
As we watch The American Republic breath it’s last, it seems rather fitting that one of the people in charge of our central government is a Dipsomaniac, one is a Nihilist, one is a bland and banal grocery clerk, and one is a lava-lamp worshiping idiot in a black robe.
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