Slashdot Mirror
Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation
halfEvilTech writes: House Speaker John A. Boehner announced Friday morning that he will resign at the end of October. The Washington Post reports: "The resignation will end a nearly five-year reign as speaker, allowing House Republicans to approve a short-term government funding bill that will avert a shutdown of federal agencies. Boehner's hold on the speaker's gavel had grown increasingly unsteady amid threats from more than 30 Republicans that they would force a no-confidence vote in his speaker's position, which would have forced him to rely on Democratic votes in order to remain in charge. Several GOP members told The Washington Post that Boehner would step down from Congress Oct. 31."
He might have been Republican in name but seemed to vote more like a democrat.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Finally, he can devote more time to those A.A. meetings. It's both good for him and America.
Life is not for the lazy.
Action: Boehner resignation
Expected outcome: End to gridlock, new era of bipartisan cooperation, intelligent debate, and compromise.
Actual Outcome: New guy is actually worse than Boehner.
Result: FAIL
If a tea partier takes his spot, it's going to be even worse.
So which corporation will now fork over the board positions and stock bonuses that they've been promising? It's called cashing in. Politicians are doing it younger these days so that they have more time to enjoy their ill gotten wealth.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
Now that the far right gets what they say they've wanted for years... who will they select to lead them?
This pretty much guarantees a US government shutdown in a few weeks. Prepare your portfolios.
Ironically, his resignation gave the other representatives each their very own "boehner".
Remember the 2012 midterm, when all the pundits declared that the Republican establishment had defanged the Tea Party? Bwaahahaha! They run the circus now.
Sure, the Teatards will destroy the Republican party, but they'll do enormous damage along the way. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
that this will leave the insane tea partiers in charge of the asylum that is the House of Representatives. It's like the last adult is leaving the room.
Reid has already announced his departure. Too many career politicians. We need new blood.
I look forward to our new, even less reasonable speaker.
Boehner often cries when he gets emotional, this can be a sign of an underlying neurological problem. If so, there could be a hidden reason for his resignation. I am referring to Pseudobulbaraffect, that can be a secondary symptom from many other problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
~~~Please pass the salt, I hate unsalted MD5s
My god the man is orange!
Boehner is a devout Catholic.
Boehner invited the Pope to speak before Congress.
During the Pope's address to the Congress, an address that specifically rebuked many Republican stances* Boehner has supported, Boehner was visibly crying.
The day after the Pope's address, Boehner announces his resignation.
We should wait and see what he actually does next following his resignation, but a part of me can't help but hope that he saw the light finally, that he saw the discrepancies between the faith he claimed, and the party he was part of for so long. One can hope.
(*yes I know he chastised both sides)
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Oh, wait. His replacement might be worse and the House of Representatives may get even less done. Now, it'll be interesting whether Boehner has lined up a job with an existing lobbying company or will form his own company. He'll likely make many millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars per year no matter what he does.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Reagan also cut more taxes than anyone in history (dangerous facts)
No president has ever cut taxes or raised them. That's the responsibility of Congress. The President can suggest tax policies and can veto them but ultimately it is up to Congress to actually affirm or deny them. Now admittedly the President does have substantial influence on tax policy but saying Reagan or any other president raised taxes is technically incorrect. You could correctly say that he supported a tax increase or opposed one and that would be factual.
Drop dead.
Contribute to civilization: ari.aynrand.org/donate
His replacement might be worse and the House of Representatives may get even less done.
Is that actually possible? Seems like the only thing they do is have repeated pointless votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and de-fund Planned Parenthood along with periodically trying (and even succeeding once) to shut down the federal government over the spending cap.
I probably wouldn't agree with Boehner 100% on a lot of issues, but is was pretty clear he didn't believe lots of the nonsense that came out of the far right wing of his party. I think it became too much for him to deal with.
"... amid threats from more than 30 Republicans that they would force a no-confidence vote in his speaker's position..."
Wow! I never knew politics could be as exciting as a Star Wars movie!
I mean, yeah, the most boring part of the most boring one, but still...
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I would cheer but you know there's just another warmonger in an expensive suit standing behind him to take his place.
"All those moments, will be lost in time...like tears in rain..."
He learned just a one cannot herd cats, one cannot reason with the outright psychotics that the Teabagging Koch Brothers, et al loosed on the Republican party (and the entire country).
I've waited a long time for this. You cannot exercise the power of the purse without shutting down the government. Let the democrat gubmint employees lose a few paychecks and the dems will be in a softer mood to bargain. Planned Parenthood is finished!
Boehner to Pope: "Holy Father, I can't take this anymore."
Pope to Boehner: "Life is short, my son. Dump these idiots and learn to drive a truck."
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
The Koch Brothers are unpopular with the Tea Party because they are weak on immigration. They are really Establishment types. The Establishment is being purged in real time.
"The resignation will end a nearly five-year reign as speaker"
Translation: "The resignation will end a nearly five-year reign as a lame, inept, orange-colored buffoon who couldn't get his own fucking party to back his loopy ideas."
His "leading by resigning" strategy follows that of Sarah Palin and Scott Walker.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
We simply have this again, albeit not by Obama
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
He wasn't as bad as Pelosi, but he came pretty close.
This is the best thing he's ever done for this country, and he could do us an even bigger favor by resigning his congressional seat as well.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Goodbye House, Welcome Solarium!
only from the position of Speaker of the House. He'll remain a member of the House.
Awww. No more "Boner" jokes... :P
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
You first, dickhead.
PLEASE post the following everywhere you can.
When a politician, member of an illegitimate agency, or a C-level executive is leaving their job, there is a standard response that we all need to use.
Just change the name:
Dear Mr. Boehner,
We The People of The United States of America cannot be more happy that you will be departing from your cushy job.
Your tenure in the position was an amazing spectacle of poor decision making, the undermining of our Constitutional Rights,
and a myriad of criminal acts in which a significant percentage were treasonous.
We The People of The United States of America have been, and always will be ashamed of you, your office, your actions, and all of your decisions.
Your presence in your assigned role provided a benefit solely to you, and no other person, plant, or animal in the known universe.
You never bothered to represent We The People for even one whole minute in time, and yet you were paid hundreds-of-orders-of-magnitude more money than you are worth on any given day.
We The People of The United States of America are in awe of how quickly you gained your position and then immediately made efforts to ignore your oath, and We The People of The United States of America.
You have demonstrated incredible skills that governments in the 1990's USSR and 1940's Germany valued more than Gold, guns, and real estate.
You would make the most skilled criminals, oligarchs, and communists blush with envy at your acumen in the position(s) you held.
We The People of The United States of America want you to know the magnitude of irreparable harm you have done to us, our nation, and the Constitution.
Had you not held the position you were in, or had you never been born then We The People of The United States of America would be in a much better situation than we are currently in.
You are not, and never will be one of The People of The United States of America. You are the direct cause of many problems that We The People have to face every day,
and most of us will never forget you and what you have done.
We The People of The United States of America would like to suggest that after you depart your role, you should stay indoors and out of sight for the remainder of your pathetic existence.
You live in a nation where you are the minority. It is only a matter of time before We The People of The United States of America will be 'moving' you to another, permanent location.
In case you couldn't tell, that was renowned political analyst Andrew P. Kowalski reporting "live" from his mother's basement in beautiful Syracuse NY USA.
One right winger down the bowl is not enough. We need to flush all of them down the bowl. On top of that the jerk is almost the same color orange as Trump. It makes me wonder if one lies enough does one turn orange?
republicans go into politics rich and corporate opportunitie$ waiting for them when they finally leave, on the other hand, democrats go into politics poor but leave as multi-millionaires no need for opportunities on the outside.
Writing was on the wall.
He will resign *AS SPEAKER*.
Nothing I have read so far has said he will leave his job entirely.
I think that's very misleading, since without the qualifier, "will resign" means he'll leave the job.
All I read was "House Baratheon announces resignation".
There will finally be a gummint shutdown, freak out & piss off every indifferent voter dependent on gummint checks, freak out the commercial sector that depends on the gummint and banks to deliver a quarterly profit, JUST IN TIME for national elections in November!
Go Tea Party!
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
Speaking as an equalist... This is a sad sad day when one of the VERY few people who is for Equal Rights for all (not just some), have to step down due to the MASSIVE corruption in the government. Go Figure.
It's amazing how petty all this will seem when Iran completes it's peaceful nuclear experiments and humanitarian missile program.
Good riddance.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Good riddance. You won't be missed.
There are a couple issues the republicans have gone so far to the right that they actually accomplished a far Left policy goal.
Politics has more than one dimension - and you can't make substantial sense out of it without using at least two. Whenever you have a confusing "so far right it's left" (or vice-versa) analysis, you're really in an at-least-two-dimensions situation. The right-left analysis has broken as a result, and an off-in-another-direction group has been misidentified as being "off the end" of the left or right side that the left-right-only "dimension-blind" analysts usually associate them with.
If you're counting "tea party" as farther right than right, you've tried to squash 2-D into 1-D and gotten it wrong. (They'd be close to center on a left-right projection, and also contain {at least} two distinct groups)
The two axes you want (both here and usually as a minimum-to-make-sense) are "economic freedom vs. control" and "social freedom vs. control" - but you can rotate the square graph 45 degrees and get a diamond, with left/right along the now horizontal diagonal and libertarian/authoritarian along the now vertical one, yielding the "Nolan Chart" of the "World's Smallest Political Quiz".
The Tea Party ("Taxed Enough Already") started out as a libertarians-in-the-republican-party thing during the Ron Paul campaign, temporarily attracted (or was infiltrated by) neocons, (they had no controls to keep anybody from calling themselves "tea party"), attracted other anti-neocon republican faction members and lost most of the neocons (as the "tea party"-identified new congresscritters attacked the neocon-dominated party establishment) along with anti-tax people from the "left" side of the isle.
Their main issue is getting the government out of your pocketbook, currency manipulation, crony-capatalist bailouts (which attracts some lefties), world-wide economic power-plays (world bank, foreign aid, ...), etc. This puts them a little right of center on the left-right axis, and way up toward the libertarian corner on the libertarian-authoritarian axis.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Their main issue is getting the government out of your pocketbook, currency manipulation, crony-capatalist bailouts (which attracts some lefties), world-wide economic power-plays (world bank, foreign aid, ...), etc. This puts them a little right of center on the left-right axis, and way up toward the libertarian corner on the libertarian-authoritarian axis.
More accurately, because their main issue is an economic liberty, they attract people from a broad region spread out near the libertarian-right side of the Nolan chart, and the region is big enough to include some of the more libertarian of those left-of-center - mainly those who recognize property rights or oppose crony capitalists because they're perceived as looting the rest of the people (rather than because they think property rights shouldn't exist).
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
The Republican Presidential field is a demolition derby. Nobody is coming out unscathed. Boahner is retiring at the top of his game. He will have averted his second government shutdown, probably with Democratic help. The shutdown will come with the debit ceiling crisis in December.
He enters the spring primary season at the right time, 3 months before June, fresh and ready to run. He presents himself as an honest broker. Someone willing to work with the Democrats to pass legislation. Rank and file moderate Republicans and swing voters can vote for him as a conservative who gets the job done. He kept the lights on twice. In November he runs as a centrist. Someone who can work with both parties. His only black marks are he cries in public and his orange tan. He would give Hillary a run for her money.
What's scary for me as a bleeding heart liberal, is that he would not be a bad choice. Unlike W or the race to the bottom of the current gang of candidates.
Boehner is among the most radical, America hating, government corrupting, fascist right wing political puppets of the corporapist oligarchy in the nation. After seeing all the crocodile tears he shed during Pope Francis' plea to congress for secular morality, humanitarian sensibility and de-polarized civil dialogue among our State representatives, I'm wondering if he didn't finally find some fragment of conscience buried deep in his self loathing heart that prompted him to resign. Not surprising to see how these rabid, teatarded, repugnantcon hate monger animals are anxious to eat any of their cannibal tribe that give off the slightest scent of civility and actual conservative values. On the up side, when an even more radically delusional member of the christianazi tribe of death is installed as chief cannibal and Speaker of the House, it will only serve to more clearly differentiate the dangerous, destructive, insane and deadly extremist teatard agenda from the ethical policies of civility and social conscience being forwarded exclusively by voices among the Democrats, and it will expedite the long overdue political revolution that is needed to cure our nation of the cannibalistic cancers of hate and greed that are consuming and killing it.
As a self-described Conservative Republican, my complaints with Boehner, McConnell et al are:
0. Boenher stated that winning Republican majorities in the House and Senate would give him and McConnell the ability to pass legislation to accomplish the stated Republican goals of repealing the ACA, forcing the President to appoint more moderate judges etc., and enact tax reform to grow the economy.
1. When the House and Senate (the Senate being the 'problem' fixed) were in fact won by the Republicans, Boehner then explained that without a Republican President, they could not get legislation signed into law, and lacking a majority sufficient to override a veto, they still could not do anything.
2. Then Boehner explained that passing such legislation as even resolutions to temporarily defund Planned Parenthood couldn't be done because to do so would likely result in a 'government shutdown', which would further tarnish the Republican Party reputation, risk the presidential election, and so result in at least four more years of inaction.
Why am I so disillusioned by this?
- If winning Republican majorities in the House and Senate results in continuing gridlock, is the solution now to control the Executive and Legislative branches outright? Is this a reasonable expectation? Mr. Boehner, your requirement that this be done so that you can in fact govern is unrealistic and frankly wrong. You have failed.
- And when given the Congressional majorities you said you needed, you failed to act. Even to send those bills we expected you to, for a certain veto, if for no other reason than to demonstrate the difference between the two dominant political parties. If there is in fact one.
- Then, if for no other reason than to at least do what you said you would, you failed to pass even minimal legislation to accomplish what your constituents and fellow Republicans overwhelmingly demand. You have ignored your pwn party faithful.
From my vantage point, Mr. Boehner acts the same way no matter the majority he has in the House, fails to act at all, and indeed continues to avoid either confronting or compromising with the Democratic Party. at least, we cannot see any meaningful action.
If he will not act, and if he correct and without the Presidency nothing can be accomplished, then does it matter who is Speaker? I say yes, it does:
> First, a new Speaker must begin meeting with Democrats. If a veto-proof coalition is necessary, form it. Find a way. OR report to us that indeed the effort was made, and so far individual Democrats refuse to consider compromise. This I doubt, but I'm unaware of even the effort by the current Republican House leadership. And no effort to show us that...
> A new Speaker must make the point that traditional efforts, such as adding amendments to budget resolutions, are not 'Republican shutdown theater', despite the claim. If the House sends this to the Senate, and the Senate also passes it, the President then can decide if he believes this or some other provision is sufficiently outrageous that he will veto the resolution, let the government shut down as much as it will, and consequences be damned. Democrats in the Congress can then choose to compromise or not, and so register their intention to let the government fail rather than pass such intolerable provisions. Eventually one side or the other will surrender.
> A new Speaker must at least try.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Why is this even on slashdot? Has slashdot become a U.S.(-centered) political news site?
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
See subject & that quote from you (& a REAL SECURITY PRO seconds me http://it.slashdot.org/comment... hosts = good security).
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Tell us another one, hypocrite - You use admin priv yourself & how else could I programmatically update hosts minus it inside Windows, hmmm?
ANSWER:
I have to do it that way, to protect AND speed up users plus make their connections online more reliable!
(The latter of which also functions to make users faster than adblocking alone, by resolving host-domain names to IP address from hosts cached in RAM locally - far faster than calling out to remote DNS & less complex + less overheads ridden vs. locally installed DNS (less power, & FAR LESS if done on a separate machine)).
APK
P.S.=> LMAO - "EAT YOUR WORDS" you hypocritical STUPID little technically incompetent troll wannabe security guru, lol... apk
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Tell us another one, hypocrite - You admitted using admin priv yourself & how else could I programmatically update hosts minus it inside Windows, hmmm?
ANSWER:
I have to do it that way, to protect AND speed up users plus make their connections online more reliable!
(The latter of which also functions to make users faster than adblocking alone, by resolving host-domain names to IP address from hosts cached in RAM locally - far faster than calling out to remote DNS & less complex + less overheads ridden vs. locally installed DNS (less power, & FAR LESS if done on a separate machine)).
---
Aha! What's this Coren22 admits?
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
See subject & BOTH quotes from you contradicting yourself!
(& a REAL security pro, Aryeh Goretsky of NOD32/ESET agrees hosts = good security -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ).
APK
P.S.=> LMAO - "EAT YOUR WORDS" you hypocritical STUPID little technically incompetent troll wannabe security guru, lol - you're constantly trolling me, your post history shows it - NOW, you're getting a DOSE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE (How's it taste? Better than how "eating your words" does I bet!)
... apk
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Tell us another one, hypocrite - You admitted using admin priv yourself & how else could I programmatically update hosts minus it inside Windows, hmmm?
ANSWER:
I have to do it that way, to protect AND speed up users plus make their connections online more reliable!
(The latter of which also functions to make users faster than adblocking alone, by resolving host-domain names to IP address from hosts cached in RAM locally - far faster than calling out to remote DNS & less complex + less overheads ridden vs. locally installed DNS (less power, & FAR LESS if done on a separate machine)).
---
Aha! What's this Coren22 admits?
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
See subject & BOTH quotes from you contradicting yourself!
(& a REAL security pro, Aryeh Goretsky of NOD32/ESET agrees hosts = good security -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ).
APK
P.S.=> LMAO - "EAT YOUR WORDS" you hypocritical STUPID little technically incompetent troll wannabe security guru, lol - you're constantly trolling me, your post history shows it - NOW, you're getting a DOSE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE (How's it taste? Better than how "eating your words" does I bet!)
... apk