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And, frankly, I read that as an almost compliment haha
Seems like a good summary. One can’t blame Boehner if that is, indeed, the case.
Lest we forget. Speaker of the House is third in line for the presidency… Think Gohmert, Scalise, Blackburn, et al….
I think he’s a pussy. he helped create the situation he found himself in. If he wanted to really help the country, he smacks down the idiots and gets a proper budget done, and then announces he’s stepping down. Now there’s no leader in the monkey house, I see nothing getting done and those assholes will hold the budget hostage for months.
You say “pussy” like it’s a bad thing.
If John Boehner is too moderate for the GOP they are done as a national party.
It always seems to be the case lately. “If GOP leader X is too moderate for the GOP, then they’re doomed as a national party.” Yet they keep on keeping on.
That was pretty much my reaction.
Off topic: Doesn’t Nelson look like he died last week and they forgot to tell him?
Woo hoo: Bibi and Frank, in the same calendar year. Huzzah. Time to declare victory and leave the field. Hubbadda hubbadda. Raise a glass and light 'em up if you got 'em.
I actually take Petit L’Orange at his word: he wanted to go out in a blaze of gloire [sic] after the 2014 Midterms, but the owners kept him on with the same sort of promises combined with threats that the Jeremy Irons character issued the Kevin Spacey character near the end of the movie Margin Call. Now the on-the-sleeve mercenary Boehner gets to ride his golf cart off into the sunset, knowing he executed on his job in about exactly the way we should all expect from a saloon-keeper’s son. Puffing, gulping and sucking his way around the great golf courses that are safe for him to travel to for whatever time he’s got left is pretty much the dream of every GOP hack.
If he was a GOP, I’d call him Red Skull; but since he’s on my team, he’s just lean.
Sen. Nelson is on point with his statement. Boehner finally had an opportunity to have a moment of inner reflections and realized that he could no longer put up the face or had the stomach to continue the fight and further abuse those who are less fortunate than he.
Second in line. Something takes out the President and VP and the Speaker is president
I prefer the term “chickenshit”. Small, smelly, and mostly useless.
If the Democrats had any marketing skills at all…
I thought that too. I met with him and his science adviser back in 2009, and he didn’t look like that. Maybe it is just the picture, or he has lost some serious weight.
He is a good senator, and I am glad we have at least one person with an interest in science in the Senate (he spent six days in space on the Columbia).
So get ready for act II where we get to select a new Speaker. Should be quite a show.
Except only in D.C. would JB not be considered a right wing extremist himself. Comparisons don’t matter.
Spot on. And he does this as the POTUS race starts to heats up. I know the TeaBaggers think they will destroy Obama (adorable, ain’t they?) and destroy Hillary’s chances, but Boehner knows that everything the TeaBaggers do from now on will kill them in the general and all but guarantee a Democratic win and may even secure the Senate and House for the Dems as well. In other words, another passive aggressive Boehner fuck you as he drops the mic. This time to his own party.
After Speaker Boehner fulfilled his dream of the pope speaking, he is just plain tired of dealing with the right wing extremists
Bill Nelson then dropped the mic and walked off stage.