I'm giving him a little benefit of doubt here.

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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