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Boehner Stepping Down as Speaker


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Don't worry Red, the debt ceiling will be raised with minimal opposition. The Republican Party likes spending just the same as Democrats. The only difference is where the money is spent.

 

We should have an anti-sosh post ceiling on aw.com. We can have a token meeting each year to agree to raise it. 

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Looks like McCarthy might have gotten himself in trouble before even taking on the Speaker's gavel for stating what everyone knew but pretended wasn't the case.

 

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.”

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Talk about cutting off their nose to spite their face...at this point they've given Boehner carte blanche. "Freedom caucus" has pretty much just made themselves irrelevant with Boehner. What are they going to do, threaten to take away his speakership?

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I was really hoping they drafted Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.

 

I also don't see why Ryan would agree to this...this is a no win job and if he has any national ambitions and wants to keep that image he's a smart guy...he's best staying as far away as possible and keep coming up with the granny starving budgets that will never get passed.

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Sounds like they are going to strong arm him into doing it. Seems like a no win for him at this point. If he says no, he's never going to get the necessary support to make a run for president because he's not a "party first" guy. If he says yes, it kills any chance he'll ever have for upward mobility. Assuming of course, those are his aspirations. 

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Unless he gets assurances (which probably aren't worth much) from the "freedom caucus" and nihilist far right that they won't burn down the government with a shutdown and debt limit default over the holidays he'd be the dumbest person on the planet to step anywhere within smelling distance of that position.

 

I still have a feeling that they'll let Boehner take care of those two items with a deal that takes them past the 2016 elections so they can save themselves from themselves and blame it all on him.

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