Somewhere, Boehner is sitting outside his RV having a merlot and laughing his ass off.
When you’re 0 for 72, maybe you should reconsider your position of complete intransigence?
This is mind boggling. This implies that the past few years the Freedom Caucus has run roughshod over everyone else because they stood up and yelled loudly while everyone else was too lazy or scared to stand up and argue for their side.
“A lot of members don’t like to stand up in there because they are afraid it is going to be public”
Lordy, what a pack of wussies.
When will Eddy figure out that he looks awful in puke green ties? They and his face kind of gang up on one’s nausea control. Now, he can’t help his face, but those puke green ties!!!
they’re all proving, once again, that they’re all Bozos riding the short bus…
gop can’t govern.
“Elect us and we’ll prove government doesn’t work!”
It’s not an implication, it’s how things have been running. The entire Republican party has been afraid to stand up to the Tea Party and rabid conservatives, because they know those are the people who vote in primaries. The moderate Republicans haven’t wanted to risk their jobs, and have been willing to allow the radicals to damage our economy as a result. It’s pretty cowardly, but maybe they finally feel like they need to stand up or else be overwhelmed by the racist alt-right movement that Trump is pushing into mainstream Republican discussion.
Why do these people in congress make doing the right thing so damn hard?
As I said before and I will say it again…never let outsiders hijack your party bad things tend to happen when you let them
Y’know, there are quite a few Democratic members of the House; if the Rethugs ever smarten up (not very likely), I’m sure the Speaker could come to some sort of compromise and cobble together bills that would pass and not under threat of veto. Instead, he chooses to kowtow to the Crazy Caucus; more fodder for my upcoming book, Profiles in Cowardice. Mr. Ryan will probably get two chapters.
Effective government - try it, you’ll like it!
…or, as they like to call it, the minibus. 
Sounds like the Speaker should read The Art of the Deal this weekend.
Don’t hold your breath. Gerrymandering produces a great bunch of stupid, crazy idiots, voted for by the stupid cazy idiots in their districts.
The Empire Strikes Back
My not-so-expert opinion: Republican leadership is under tremendous pressure from the traditional GOP mainstream – big business – to fund the government and tighten the noose on the wingnuts in a vain effort to maintain Congressional majorities.
They know Trump’s campaign is a lost cause, and they are going to pass a short-term funding bill that gets them to December only. There will be a couple fig leafs included to allow the Freedom Caucus to save face and hold their heads high, but otherwise they know they will need Democratic support.
Then after the election they will limp into the lame-duck session and, with the exception of some shiny objects and fig leaves to distract the wing-nuts and provide them a symbolic victory, the Democrats are going to get some additional goodies. But expect it to be messy, and expect the media and progressives not to recognize the gains that Democrats will make.
Ryan is one of them in spirit…and he’s also a gutless wonder. Watch Trump’s storm troopers shut down the government right before the election.
And then watch the American people vote the GOP from control of both the House and Senate. The general public has had enough of these conservative anarchists and Russian communist sympathizers.