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(5,020 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2015, 10:51 AM Oct 2015

Rachel Maddow - Shock! as Kevin McCarthy bails on speakership

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Rachel Maddow - Shock! as Kevin McCarthy bails on speakership (Original Post) Galraedia Oct 2015 OP

They were crying? Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #1

The question becomes, what were they crying over? daleanime Oct 2015 #2

I suspect they were crying because it had just become clear... Nitram Oct 2015 #3

I think they are just a bunch of drama-things (can't use a sexist term here) erronis Oct 2015 #4

Some may be seeing the end of the party.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #5

Rachel was right, John Bohener was bad at his job. Volaris Oct 2015 #6

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

1. They were crying?

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 01:35 PM

Oct 2015

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

2. The question becomes, what were they crying over?

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:24 PM

Oct 2015

I can't imagine them crying over some one else's career? So what could it have been?

Nitram

(22,768 posts)

3. I suspect they were crying because it had just become clear...

Reply to daleanime (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:48 PM

Oct 2015

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...that a radically right wing 40-member minority in the House had just blocked what was planned to be a smooth transition in leadership. The result will be a chaotic scrum while the party tries to get its act together with no sign that it can.

erronis

(15,185 posts)

4. I think they are just a bunch of drama-things (can't use a sexist term here)

Reply to daleanime (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:53 PM

Oct 2015

And are trying to hog the media spotlight. After all, they don't care about any "leadership" in the house and they certainly don't want to be caught actually working for the american peoples.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

5. Some may be seeing the end of the party....

Reply to daleanime (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 04:30 PM

Oct 2015

They already ran out of heavy hitters.

The likes of Hastert, Delay and Gingrich are gone. Boehner was considered to be the dregs at one time. Next in line would be the Whip - Steve Scalise from a heavily gerrymandered district in Louisiana. He's there to water down the black vote and to be a butt boy for Big Oil.

Next in line after him is (gasp) a WOMAN.

We may still get a Messer after a Boehner.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)

6. Rachel was right, John Bohener was bad at his job.

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 05:25 PM

Oct 2015

But I'll say this for him, at least he wasn't a little Whiny Bitch while he was there. He had the ballz to want the job, he had the ballz to GET the job, and (even tho he wasnt good at the job) he had the ballz to manage to KEEP the job until HE decided it was time to give it up, arguably while still at the TOP of his career.

Bohener wasn't good at his job. But everyone else cant even manage to GET the job that they will be worse at. And while it ain't saying much for the GOP at the moment, I think it might say something at least a little bit worthwile about the-about-to-be-retired Mr. Speaker.

If everyday behind closed doors, was anything like yesterday in Public, no fucking wonder he drank.

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