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."

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Teatards Ascending

[PvtVoid]

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.

Re:House loses most staunch Democrat

[Archangel Michael]

PP isn't a binary choice. That is the problem with liberals, is that they tend to put out binary choices. The thing about PP is that ObamaCare makes PP all but irrelevant for just about every woman's healthcare issue, the remaining issue is ... Abortion. And since Abortion is a holy sacrament of the left, they (the left) make it about everything else (woman's healthcare, Evil Republicans ... etc ).

The Republicans should pass the CR with everything but funding for PP, adding in funding for any Woman's HealthCare Community Center that isn't PP and make Obama shut the government down to save PP. They would win, Obama and the (D) would lose and Planned Parenthood would go the way of the Dodo.

Re:House loses most staunch Democrat

[Coren22]

Except that Obama did nothing but say it was a priority. He didn't change the amount of effort going into tracking Osama down, Osama just got a bit careless.