Discussion for article #241021
Oh, Ted, you guys never lead- you just throw temper tantrums all the time.
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The only reason the frustration he’s talking about is “volcanic” is that his party has been making absurd promises to their base, ginning them up for 8 years, lying to them about the ACA, lying to them about Obama’s nationality, lying to them about the Iran Deal, lying to them about Benghazi, lying to them about race relations, and lying to them that they represent the majority view, all the while trumpeting up their access to guns, and celebrating their own ignorance. That’s undoubtedly a volcanic cocktail, but it’s one of their own fault, and it’s one that will blow up their own party. Boehner’s resignation is the beginning of the republicans eating their own.
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when does sCruz announce his willingness to be Speaker?
The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the chamber. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, “The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker…” The current Speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio’s 8th congressional district. The Constitution does not require that the Speaker be an elected House Representative, though all Speakers have been an elected Member of Congress.[1]
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Cruz should follow Boehner’s lead and resign too.
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Oh Ted, you’re such a douchebag.
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Great… here comes crazy town… Now the inmates will officially take over the asylum.
Hold onto your hats, and stock up on popcorn before they shut everything down for the next year.
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Who said Cruz can’t accomplish anything?
He just turned the most incompetent Speaker of the House in history into a sympathetic figure.
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“Frustration” Ted? When are you going to pay back the billions of dollars this country lost to YOUR government shutdown tantrum. Shut the F UP!!!
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Cruz and the House Freedom Caucus. Scum. Right-wing scum. Vicious right-wing scum.
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Please proceed, Senator.
Let the freak flag fly so that the country can see what your policy positions are. Boehner has been doing the GOP a HUGE favor. Now we will see what a lack of constraint gets them.
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I’m trying to figure out what’s going to happen after Boehner leaves. Do the wingnuts assume they’ll get a “strong” Speaker who will magically get every one of their half-baked ideas passed into law?
With all their professed knowledge of and respect for the Constitution, you’d think they would have SOME faint idea of how government works.
I just made myself laugh.
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That’s rich since it’s House members who are the same kind of bomb-thrower asshole as he is that Boehner’s tired of.
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No, they will probably get McCarthy, though he isn’t assured of having the votes. And they will begin savaging him just like they did Boehner.
The unspoken reality, and why Boehner has held on this long, is because nobody wants his job. It’s impossible for anyone to herd this rapid little beasts into anything resembling a functioning caucus.
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McCarthy is also none too bright, so he’d be even less effective than Boehner—and that’s hard to do.
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Hey, Carnival – if the dissatisfaction really is volcanic, I’ll nominate you as the sacrifice to Madam Pele.
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Blaming GOP leadership for Cantor losing… Cruz’s “leadership” = intolerance, partisanship, and uncompromising batshit crazy.
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Now Ted can seize this opportunity to get himself appointed Chancellor.
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I think this lowers the chance of a shutdown - or at least a prolonged shutdown. I think Boehner is clearly not wanting this shutdown, but has been stuck with an inability to compromise across the aisles if he wants to hold onto his Speaker position. The crazy caucus no longer has that threat to hold over him. At the very least, we will now see what he is really willing to do when he’s no longer beholden to those individuals.
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