{"id":182370,"date":"2015-10-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-17\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:25:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m not sure whether John Boehner is laughing or crying, but the fact that Congressman Malaprop, AKA current House Majority Leader has decided nto to run for Speaker<\/a> is a bit of a surprise:<\/div>\n

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew on Thursday from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House Republican colleagues and throwing their already tumultuous chamber into deeper chaos with no clear leader in sight just weeks before a series of high-stakes fiscal battles.<\/p>\n

As lawmakers ate barbecue and sipped sodas during what was expected to be a pro forma vote to select Mr. McCarthy as their nominee, he did an about-face, saying that he had concluded he could not unite the increasingly fractious Republican majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not that guy,\u201d said Mr. McCarthy, with his wife and family by his side, according to members who were in the room. Moments later, Mr. Boehner, who learned of Mr. McCarthy\u2019s decision only minutes before he announced it, declared the vote postponed and the meeting adjourned even though there were two other candidates in the running, underscoring the weakness of the field.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans, including Mr. Boehner and Mr. McCarthy, are pressing Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the party\u2019s nominee for vice president in 2012, to step up. Mr. Ryan, however, has repeatedly said he does not want the job<\/a>, a point he reiterated Thursday even before his colleagues had left the meeting.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve heard that there were some Republican Representatives crying in the coat closet crying after the announcement.<\/div>\n
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I love me some sweet Republican tears, but we are in for a really bumpy ride.<\/div>\n
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If someone like Jason Chaffetz ends up speaker, we will get of the Benghazi-Planned Parenthood-Fast and Furious freak show.<\/div>\n
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In fact, I would guess that it is even money that they will try to impeach Obama.<\/div>\n
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Actually, I would think that there is a 10% chance that they will try to retroactively impeach Bill Clinton.<\/div>\n
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About the only good that might come of this is if it ends up killing the TPP, because nothing else is going to get done.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure whether John Boehner is laughing or crying, but the fact that Congressman Malaprop, AKA current House Majority Leader has decided nto to run for Speaker is a bit of a surprise: Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew on Thursday from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}