Boehner resigning from Congress

Post #404,869 by malraux 9/25/15 10:03:13 AM Reply	Boehner resigning from Congress http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/boehner-will-resign-from-congress.html Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #404,870 by a6l6e6x 9/25/15 10:13:21 AM Reply	I'd be happier if his congressional district wasn't gerrymandered. Boehner hasn't accomplished diddly as Speaker. He probably has a juicy lobbying gig lined up. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #404,873 by boxley 9/25/15 10:56:24 AM Reply	from his notes on the resignation " Im tired of this shit, fuck ya'll" you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer
Post #404,878 by mmoffitt 9/25/15 11:36:37 AM Reply	Which one isn't? Look at Mel Watts district.
Post #404,900 by a6l6e6x 9/25/15 2:58:45 PM Reply	You think 90+% black is needed? It's a SWAG on that percentage, but the idea was to remove black voters from surrounding districts. I think Boehner's district is about 70% Repo. "Proper" redistricting maximizes the number of >51% districts for your party with sacrificial districts with huge majorities of the opposition. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #404,975 by mmoffitt 9/28/15 8:59:52 AM Reply	I don't disagree with you at all. Mel's district is NC's "token" district. Can't have those people affecting real Tarheel districts. Did I mention the reasons I don't live there anymore recently? ;0)
Post #404,876 by lincoln 9/25/15 11:27:18 AM Reply	Leaves him more time to golf with lobbyists http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/john-boehner-burning-tree-lobby Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
Post #404,877 by mmoffitt 9/25/15 11:34:47 AM Reply	I'm giving him a little benefit of doubt here. I watched him as he was unable to look at the Pope in the eye. I saw him tear up when the pontiff, in essence, condemned the economic and social policies he'd spent his life committed to. I think he had a crisis of conscience, looked at the unholy mess of the Teabaggers in the House and decided, "I was wrong, but I can't fix this. Not with this crowd. The only thing I can do is not participate any longer." If I'm close in my analysis (and I could be way, way off), I'd look for him to do a hell of a lot of work for charities in retirement.
Post #404,883 by Another Scott 9/25/15 11:48:58 AM Reply	The Teabaggers have been after him for years. He's been trying to get the Pope to come for about 10 years, and he's always been a weeper, so I'm sure that he would have been teary even without the backstabbing. I don't think he's introspective enough to think that the Pope's words mean that he's been doing it wrong for decades... The Teabaggers have been after him for years - "doesn't fight hard enough" and such nonsense. The Teabaggers apparently flunked 2nd grade math - they don't know how to count votes and think that screaming is an acceptable substitute. I think he's tired of it and wants to give them the opportunity them burn the place down without his hands anywhere near it. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/254909-boehner-to-resign-in-october Cheers, Scott.
Post #404,886 by boxley 9/25/15 11:50:53 AM Reply	other than changing to ten years to twenty, the rest of the statements are accurate you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer
Post #404,887 by mmoffitt 9/25/15 12:00:07 PM Reply	That's certainly more likely, but ... to me, he looks utterly ashamed in this video: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/politics/john-boehner-resigning-as-speaker/index.html He may not deserve any benefit of doubt, but just imagine you were in his position and you wanted to chart a more sane, humane course. Think of the enormity of the problems. This Congress of Teabaggers is, regrettably, highly representative of the majority of Americans who are almost all criminally insane. I cannot imagine a more dangerous group (for humanity as a whole) of individuals in Congress than the current freak show.
Post #405,059 by Ashton 10/2/15 6:19:41 PM Reply	Yes on that last.. from my experience (seeing HUAC sessions on TV) the best comparo seems: As. If. Clones of the freaks on HUAC had filled up all the other in-power committees, while trashing the selection system to near-enough bar any chance for sanity breaking-in. Like now. This has to be the Mondo Worst fucking 'congress' ever to sit on their sanctimonious $-fattened asses: in that venue. And left unfumigated, that venue may see installed soon (if not next) the last 'President' of these Dis-United States. (S'enough almost to wish that there WERE some place like [Hell], a gated-repository for all dangerous-grade misanthropes as perpetually seek and use new weapons, while murdering Language herself.)
Post #404,909 by rcareaga 9/25/15 5:36:26 PM Reply	Re: I'm giving him a little benefit of doubt here. If I'm close in my analysis (and I could be way, way off), I'd look for him to do a hell of a lot of work for charities in retirement. I'll take "Way, way off" for a thousand, Alex, unless we expand the definition of doing "a hell of a lot of work for charities" to include "landing one or more lucrative lobbying gigs to advance the pet projects of plutocrats." We'll see. cordially,
Post #404,976 by mmoffitt 9/28/15 9:00:48 AM Reply	If he does that, at least he'll be consistent.
Post #404,998 by gcareaga 9/28/15 7:49:31 PM Reply	Two possibilities 1. He didn't have the support to survive a leadership fight. 2. He had the support, but each of his supporters would have been skull-fucked from the right next primary season. I hope the poo-flinging monkey caucus gets center stage these next thirteen months.

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