Peter King: Boehner exit means 'the crazies have taken over the party'

[Pharaoh]

“I think it signals the crazies have taken over the party, taken over to the party that you can remove a speaker of the House who’s second in line to be president, a constitutional officer in the middle of his term with no allegations of impropriety, a person who’s honest and doing his job. This has never happened before in our country," King said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on Friday afternoon. "He could have stayed on.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/john-boehner-resigns-peter-king-reaction-214083#ixzz3mucLNHR6

[madaboutharry]

1. Peter "Shut It Down" King

is crazy himself. If he is calling them crazies it must be pretty bad.

[yeoman6987]

3. Why are you saying New York house member King says

"Shut it down"? Let's see some links to this. I can't wait to see this. Hint - we won't!




Hint - Iowa

[madaboutharry]

5. He said that during the Florida recount

after the 2000 election.

[yeoman6987]

8. What? He is a rather moderate congressman

You go back to 2000? The king that is a jerk is from Iowa who is saying that today???? That is who should be ostracized constantly.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Are you talking about the same Peter King who, as chairman of the Homelan Security Committee in 2011

. . . held hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims?

That moderate Peter King?

Well, maybe by the standards of Ted Cruz or Scott Walker, he's moderate.

[yeoman6987]

21. Honestly I was just comparing the two kings

The reason I give the New York king a bit of slack is because he is a thorn to the tea party. As far as 2011 and anything for the Muslims. I think it's because he is in New York. But I don't know if he is anti Muslim though. I guess I want you to hate Iowa rep King too.

[shenmue]

4. Yeah

[Gman]

2. He could have stayed on

But he'd have to live with his conscience after that private moment with the pope, something he knows he cannot do.

[valerief]

11. Republicans don't have consciences. That's how they can be Republicans. nt

[randys1]

26. I think they all have a mental illness. I truly do. Those who dont,

will stop being cons.

If that mental illness is just good ole fashioned racism, then that is what it is.

But it can be more complicated than that as well.

[1monster]

15. Apparently, Boehner planned for weeks to resign after the Pope's visit. He

was responsible for the Pope's visit to Congress and looked forward to it.

[AlbertCat]

17. after that private moment with the pope

Can we PLEASE stop pretending the pope has anything to do with this?

[Rod Beauvex]

6. .

The crazies took control of the party with Reagan, after they had been gunning for it since Nixon at least.

[skepticscott]

25. Exactly...there is nothing about the Republican party

that was not already firmly in place 30 years ago. They were warmongering, anti-union, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-woman, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-environmental, anti-abortion, anti-tax, anti-science, anti-intelligence, anti-public sector and anti-just about anything else decent you care to name. What they are now is the absolutely logical continuation of all that.

[Hydra]

7. The entire establishment is going more than a little nutty

The Doom clock of climate change is ticking...and it has no mercy.

[CrispyQ]

20. This: The Doom clock of climate change is ticking...and it has no mercy.

And with every model the affects are more accelerated than predicted.

[Warpy]

9. That's the problem with making deals with devils to gain power

The devils eventually take over.

I just hope some of the fistfights at the RNC are televised next year.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. Peter King IS one of the crazies -- how funny how he doesn't notice that sort of thing

guess his mirror isn't big enough

[jalan48]

12. "Doing his job". WTF? It's been about obstruction since 2008. That's his job?

[seafan]

13. Peter King, 2003: “It’s all over but the counting. And we’ll take care of the counting.”

As discussed in this thread:

None Dare Call It Stolen, Harper's Magazine, August, 2005

In the summer of 2003, Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.) was interviewed by Alexandra Pelosi at a barbecue on the White House lawn for her HBO documentary Diary of a Political Tourist. “It’s already over. The election’s over. We won,” King exulted more than a year before the election. When asked by Pelosi—the daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi—how he knew that Bush would win, he answered, “It’s all over but the counting. And we’ll take care of the counting.”

King, who is well known in Washington for his eccentric utterances, says he was kidding, that he has known Pelosi for years, that she is “a clown,” and that her project was a “spoof.” Still, he said it. And laughter, despite the counsel of Kenneth Blackwell’s press flack, seems an inappropriate response to the prospect of a stolen election—as does the advice that we “get over it.” The point of the Conyers report, and of this report as well, is not to send Bush packing and put Kerry in his place. The Framers could no more conceive of electoral fraud on such a scale than they could picture Fox News Channel or the Pentagon; and so we have no constitutional recourse, should it be proven, finally, that the wrong guy “won.” The point of our revisiting the last election, rather, is to see exactly what the damage was so that the people can demand appropriate reforms. Those who say we should “move on” from that suspicious race and work instead on “bigger issues”—like electoral reform—are urging the impossible; for there has never been a great reform that was not driven by some major scandal.

AP

Peter King: Boehner exit means 'the crazies have taken over the party', September 25, 2015


We will never forget the thieves.

And our voting system remains infinitely vulnerable to this day.

[1monster]

14. And here I always thought Peter King was one of the "crazies..."

[MisterP]

16. yah, next they'll be sending money to support bombings or something

[KamaAina]

18. So has he announced his candidacy for Speaker?

[DFW]

22. Peter "we'll take care of the counting" King warns of the crazies?

Just think, on election day, 2004, at the White House, Peter King said to a TV camera, "We won. It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting." Well, at least he was honest about it. But he has no business wondering how the crazies took over his party. He helped enable them. No Bush would have meant no Roberts and Alito, thus no Citizens United, and no majority of crazies in the House Republican caucus.

Remember Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice: "Die ich rief, die Geister werd ich nun nicht los." Rep. King, the crazies ARE your "Geister."

[Eleanors38]

23. So, King has been watching I Love Lucy re-runs all this time? nt

[Dopers_Greed]

24. Ironic

I would consider anyone pro-NSA-surveilance-state of "the crazies."