Boehner's Resignation A Bad Sign. Now The Crazies Will Be On The Loose.

[TheMastersNemesis]

We will now have to deal with the nut cases in Congress who will shut down everything.We will have to go to war with these insurgents who want to destroy the country and install theocracy. If you think its bad now. It will get a whole lot worse.

[flamingdem]

1. Maybe our electoral choice should be

who best can control the crazies - Hillary, Bernie, Joe - in this case Joe might be the best choice.

[daleanime]

2. You can't clean out the mess....

by ignoring it. The sooner began, the sooner done.

[kairos12]

7. Agreed. The barn stinks and it's time to deal with it.

[Old Codger]

3. At the very least

It will be entertaining...for a while....

[Daemonaquila]

4. They're already on the loose. Little will change.

Boehner's control fell apart some time ago. Do you really believe that the shutdowns, shutdown threats, endless Benghazi hearings, bizarre press statements, etc. have been with his blessing? Boehner has been holding on with teeth and toenails to a certain portion of his party members only.

I doubt things can get much crazier in the hands of McCarthy. Once they're "in control," the dumbass right has to govern, and will find itself limited to the same fun and games it's playing now with nobody left on its own side to act out against. They either continue at about this level, or they'll truly self-destruct.

[world wide wally]

5. I wonder who Ted Cruz will anoint to take Boehner's place

[liberal N proud]

6. The Orange Man couldn't take it any more, his checking out of the asylum

[krawhitham]

8. Short term this is bad, long term this is so GREAT

For years Boehner has for the most part shielded the public from seeing just how bat shit crazy the tea baggers are. If a tea bagger is in charge it will hurt in the short run, they will block everything and try to shut down the government every 30 days. When the people see, truly see, what it is like with them in charge it will cause most to be voted out the next cycle, this also ends any hope they had of winning the WH back in 2016. The next 12-18 months will be painful but the end result will be wonderful and we might be able to really fix some issues in the future

[Bucky]

9. If you're talking about starting in 2017, the Dems will have to act fast

Since, inevitably, the Republicans will take back over at least one house of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections.

[Scootaloo]

10. Think of it as lancing a boil

LOTS of nasty, smelly shit comes pouring out. It's a mess. It's disgusting. If it's old enough, it might even make people physically ill to smell.

But it's the only way for the damned thing to heal. For the boil to go away.

Yup, the Republicans are gonna lose their shit. There's no more fig leaf. And eventually - sooner rather than later - they're going to collapse.

[AZ Mike]

11. They don't have that much power in our system of governance....

The House will be as impotent and chaotic as ever. The conservatives got the hide they wanted, but nothing else. A pyrrhic victory.

[Nitram]

12. No, it's a good sign.

It won't make the GOP stronger. It will break them up into factions and they won't be able to vote as a block. The sane ones who have been cowering in the shadows will be able to come out an vote with the Democrats on certain issues. There will be no one in the House who can enforce the Hastert Rule.