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Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

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."

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  1. House loses most staunch Democrat by aristotle-dude · · Score: 2, Informative

    He might have been Republican in name but seemed to vote more like a democrat.

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    1. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      He might have been Republican in name but seemed to vote more like a democrat.

      If you're not with us you're against us, eh? If you look at a graph, he's moderate. "More like a Democrat"? You can be moderate, you know. For a site that rails against the two party system, the comments seem to want to reinforce it.

    2. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Obama will veto anything that the Republicans do anyway, even if it were to get past a filibuster in the Senate.

      Anything? Obama said he will veto if a bill has something to defund Planned Parenthood. If the Republicans let go of the whole defund Planned Parenthood thing, Obama more than likely will go along.

      It's a shame that heavily edited video came out. PP mostly does women's health screening: pap smears, breast exams, free birth control so they don't have to get abortions, and other free health services that have nothing to do with abortion - all for poor women and it's 99% of what they do. PP does very very little abortions. But unfortunately, the anti-abortionists insist on lying about and exaggerating their abortion services.

      But I don't care. See, I'm well to do. If a woman in my family want's an abortion and it's illegal, we'll hop on a plane and get it done where it's legal and there's not a goddamn thing in the World anyone can do about it.

      Banning abortion just commits poor women to have their babies.

      And the adoption myth. Adoption is viable for white healthy babies. The rest get thrown into the foster care system or into abusive families who are gaming the welfare system.

    3. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by whistlingtony · · Score: 5, Informative

      Speaking as a Democrat, I'm happy to see that the R's gave in on abortion, funded women's health care, stopped oil subsidies, went along with a single payer health care system, cut back on war funding, funded basic infrastructure, etc etc etc. Oh wait, that never happened.

      What did the Democrats get that they wanted? I'm dying to know. That's a big statement. Let's see it backed up.

    4. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Informative

      For a site that rails against the two party system, the comments seem to want to reinforce it.

      This site rails against the two party system only in that they find the other party (ie, the democrats) to be an inconvenience that they need to rid the nation of. Around here if you stand to the left of Genghis Khan you're a goddamned socialist.

      This is of course particularly funny when you see slashdotters twist themselves into knots trying to align themselves with Reagan (who is far too far to the left to be welcomed in today's GOP) while still pushing their extreme conservative agenda.

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    5. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It just kills me when I see comments like this, especially when they get modded up. You people have no idea how much the government does that would immediately cease if the government completely shutdown. You might miss border control with unregulated crossing of the US borders, you might miss consular assistance if you're in a jam abroad, you might miss the justice department enforcing a breach of contract you are involved in, you might miss the coast guard if your ship sinks in US territorial waters, you might miss the FAA when suddenly there is no air traffic control. These are all things that are inherently government functions that would cease immediately if the government just stopped. And this is only what I could think of off the top of my head in 60 seconds--the max amount of my life I'm willing to waste responding to drivel on the internet.

    6. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 3, Informative

      You failed to read my response. Planned Parenthood isn't the only choice. There are PLENTY of other Woman's Health Centers out there, most don't perform abortion. And I suggested expanding coverage for these. So your view is simply binary choice selection, which is what I said in the first place.

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    7. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat by rahvin112 · · Score: 3, Informative

      They didn't just want a "negotiation" they wanted him to bend over and let them ass rape him by destroying his single biggest policy achievement. There was no way in hell he was going to agree to that. That's the thing people just aren't getting. If you want to change status quo you have to negotiate. Everything the Republican's have been trying to do it change the current status quo and no one in their right mind is going to agree to such a thing under a threat of refusing to fund government.

      This is how Obama-care got through, Obama negotiated with the 1 or 2 republicans willing to negotiate that got him the votes he needed to break the fillibuster and pass it. Then all these new congress-critters from the tea party come in and they think they get to have whatever they want and screw everyone else.

  2. Re:Government shutdown ahoy by chilenexus · · Score: 4, Informative

    My own financial health is far more threatened by outsourcing, H1-B visas, and the threat of removing my affordable healthcare than immigrants (those people this country was built out of), and the Americans in the cars around me each day are many hundreds of times more likely to kill me than any Muslim terrorist. America suffers more Christian terrorist attacks every year than Muslim terrorist attacks within our borders, but since Christians are the majority in this country, the news refuses to phrase it that way.

  3. Re:Boehner QA by PvtVoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kim Davis is a Democrat.

    Not any more!