One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

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One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

by Josh Israel at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/25/3705591/speaker-candidates-after-john-boehner/

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With Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) set to resign from Congress at the end of next month, his 434 colleagues will have to elect his successor. With Republicans set to hold a 246 to 188 majority, a mostly unified GOP could pick its candidate without any Democratic votes.

With 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) ruling out a bid for the job, a ThinkProgress review of the most likely members to become the next speaker finds that all of them are likely to be as conservative as Boehner or more so:

Kevin McCarthy

As the House Republican Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may be the most likely choice. In 2010, McCarthy was chief architect of his party’s “Pledge to America” to cut spending and preserve the Bush-era tax cuts.

In 2013, he vowed that step-by-step immigration reform would happen and supported some form of “legal status” for undocumented immigrants, but never brought any major legislation up and continues to use coded language against “amnesty” on his House website.



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[randys1]

1. All vicious terrorists, would rather see old people dead on the sidewalk than

allow Social Security to work.

[JeffHead]

2. These guys are too moderate. .

They need to go full on crazy and elect Louie Gohmert. He'll get things undone.

[hifiguy]

3. Four of a kind.

Crazier than shit, divorced from reality. Perfect representatives of the modern repig.

[HooptieWagon]

4. I think 'conventional wisdom' can be thrown out the window.

It's going to be a free for all. No telling who comes out on top, or how much control they have. Dems can just sit back and eat popcorn while the GOP circular firing squad commences.

[UTUSN]

5. So will the white smoke manifest itself to us in working days or calendar days (not aimed at OP) n/t

[ellisonz]

6. Losers.

[moondust]

7. They need somebody from Animal Control.

With extensive experience handling skunks and rabid dogs.