Boehner to resign

I suppose he wants to find another job before the government shuts down and the paychecks stop.
 
So long, Boner -- don't let the door hit your ass, etc.

Query: Can anyone point to any name (other than Boehner, from his own lips) or word in any European language where the diphthong OE is pronounced AY?

But I digress. Yes, the upcoming GOP circus act will be most amusing. We'll get the usual impassioned nutzoid rants on fantasies and trivialities as the brain-dead vote is courted. We'll get vicious attacks and hard-eyed punditry and a vast clusterfuck. Maybe Trump or the Kochs will buy the next Speaker. Maybe the next Speaker will be a real surprise.

The US Constitution is a funny document. Article I, Section 2, paragraph 5: "The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker and other Officers..." Note that it doesn't say the "Speaker and other Officers" must be Members of Congress (or even alive, or human). Anybody or anything can be 'chusen' as Speaker. Rush Limbo could be the next Speaker, or Sarah Palin, or Shamu the killer whale, or IBM's Watson AI, or Jimmy Hoffa's undiscovered corpse. The possibilities are endless.
 
You think he'll try to sneak the gavel out with him when he leaves?

You know, as a souvenir?
 
Knowing that Boehner is giving way to more reactionary Republican leadership in the house doesn't make me want to celebrate much.
 
I was thinking this when I first heard the news. The Pope addresses Congress for the first time, and the next day the Republican House Leader/Speaker resigns.

Coincidence? I think not!

In fact, one point that Boehner has made is that after bringing Pope Francis to speak at a joint session, he has very little left to accomplish. FWIW, of course.
 
It's hard to party when overall the guy wasn't insane. And he all but said "I'm getting out now because my party will be FUCKED next year if they are dealing with the fall out from a fight over me and how tres bien I am."
 
I'm celebrating, not for the loss, but as a progressive. Bring on the crazy overreach and inevitable backlash.
 
Another decent man says fuck this shit.

He's had his moment on both ends of the decency spectrum.

I am going to miss that teary-eyed Oompa Loompa.

I will now envision this every time he's on my radar.

I was thinking this when I first heard the news. The Pope addresses Congress for the first time, and the next day the Republican House Leader/Speaker resigns.

Coincidence? I think not!

He's been trying to wrangle himself a pope for a while. Mission accomplished...he should have borrowed Bush's banner.
 
Honestly if he's batting that far out of his league the man deserves props.

Ah, see, I immediately thought the Michelle in question was the recently-resigned former congress critter from Minnesota. And even she of the crazed eyes was out of Boehner's league.
 
Oh, I meant Bachmann as well, I'd forgotten for a moment that Obama's wife is a Michelle. If I were the Carrot Colored man tagging her. . .I'd "leak" a picture of me pounding her to the press with a huge grin and a thumbs up. T'would be epic.
 
Seriously? She looks like the damn Zuni Fetish Doll from Trilogy of terror....and her personality-if you can call it that-is worse. Ugh.

Fixed your post.

And I know you ain't referring to FLOTUS in the above. That's for damn sure.
 
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