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Kath1

(4,309 posts) Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:06 AM Sep 2015

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I am so glad he will be gone!

I only fear his replacement. Ugh!

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I am so glad he will be gone! (Original Post) Kath1 Sep 2015 OP

Aye, there's the rub. n/t TDale313 Sep 2015 #1

Yes! Kath1 Sep 2015 #2

John of Orange was pretty bad, but I'm afraid The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2015 #3

Even more extreme and obstructionist. Kath1 Sep 2015 #4

GOP will go from Roberts Rules of Order to Khmer Rouge Rules of Order yurbud Sep 2015 #15

Likewise: Happy he's out, fear just how crazy his replacement will be. jeff47 Sep 2015 #5

What also makes me happy is that he was never able to dismantle "Obamacare." C Moon Sep 2015 #6

Yes! Kath1 Sep 2015 #8

Be careful what you wish for, MohRokTah Sep 2015 #7

They'll replace him with Spirochete Sep 2015 #9

My daughter lived in Iowa for a time. murielm99 Sep 2015 #10

Lot of that going around Spirochete Sep 2015 #11

McCarthyism II, coming right up (yes, literally) DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2015 #12

Oh, no. murielm99 Sep 2015 #13

I'm just learning about hm. Kath1 Sep 2015 #14

TDale313

(7,820 posts)

1. Aye, there's the rub. n/t

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:12 AM

Sep 2015

Kath1

(4,309 posts)

2. Yes!

Reply to TDale313 (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:14 AM

Sep 2015

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,114 posts)

3. John of Orange was pretty bad, but I'm afraid

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:19 AM

Sep 2015

his successor will be even worse.

Kath1

(4,309 posts)

4. Even more extreme and obstructionist.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:24 AM

Sep 2015

The right wing nuts.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)

15. GOP will go from Roberts Rules of Order to Khmer Rouge Rules of Order

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 12:06 PM

Sep 2015

Same bad ideas, but pursued without even the pretense of democratic process.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

5. Likewise: Happy he's out, fear just how crazy his replacement will be.

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:29 AM

Sep 2015

Coupled with our party's continued spinelessness in fighting that crazy.

C Moon

(12,228 posts)

6. What also makes me happy is that he was never able to dismantle "Obamacare."

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:54 AM

Sep 2015

Kath1

(4,309 posts)

8. Yes!

Reply to C Moon (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:59 AM

Sep 2015

VERY happy that he could not pull that off!

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

7. Be careful what you wish for,

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 01:56 AM

Sep 2015

you may actually get it.

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)

9. They'll replace him with

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 02:29 AM

Sep 2015

Steve King, or someone equally insidious...

murielm99

(30,805 posts)

10. My daughter lived in Iowa for a time.

Reply to Spirochete (Reply #9)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 02:52 AM

Sep 2015

She despises that man.

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)

11. Lot of that going around

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 03:07 AM

Sep 2015

I've never even set foot in Iowa, and I hate him too. I sure hope he doesn't get Boehner's job.

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

12. McCarthyism II, coming right up (yes, literally)

Reply to Kath1 (Original post)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 03:35 AM

Sep 2015

It looks like Kevin McCarthy may be the next Speaker. As hard as it sounds to believe, we may end up missing the crying drunk, after a fashion.

murielm99

(30,805 posts)

13. Oh, no.

Reply to DisgustipatedinCA (Reply #12)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 05:18 AM

Sep 2015

I googled him:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-boehner-resigns_56055982e4b0af3706dbe485

One of the comments says he sounds like an empty talking head. The article damns him with faint praise.

Kath1

(4,309 posts)

14. I'm just learning about hm.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #13)

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 08:35 AM

Sep 2015

Don't like him already.

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