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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaker Boehner to resign from Congress this year. Not a joke
just heard it on CNBC. No link yet.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Hopefully not to be replaced with a bigger asshole.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)This is a bad thing.
Siwsan
(26,261 posts)He did seem so much more teary eyed, than usual. I wonder when the decision was made.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Fuck that guy. Go do the church's bidding elsewhere.
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)or just as Speaker?
Robbins
(5,066 posts)we will be spared seeing him after end of october.
right-wing has eaten one of their own again.
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)Health issues, maybe??
Will there be a special election to replace him? Or do they just leave his seat unfilled til after the next election?
Mira
(22,380 posts)YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)Please let it be Louie!
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)was facing a revolt and will have to work with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown, ultimately losing him his position anyway.
Who replaces him and if that person can somehow control the renegades in the House is going to be interested. "The Hammer" DeLay is a dreadful, genuinely dangerous person, inimical to democracy, but I've often wondered if and how he would have managed to keep the social con extremists in control if he hadn't had to resign.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)For all his bluster that might appear otherwise, Boehner is one of the more reasonable Republicans in the GOP House caucus.
We're going to get a real crazy, a true Teabag believer as a replacement.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)From Wikipedia:
Early life, education, and career
Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children. His father was of German descent and his mother had German and Irish ancestry. He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his eleven siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch. He started working at his family's bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of one another; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.
Boehner attended Cincinnati's Moeller High School and was a linebacker on the school's football team, where he was coached by future Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust. Graduating from Moeller in 1968, when U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was at its peak, Boehner enlisted in the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back. He earned his B.A. in business administration from Xavier University in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking seven years as he held several jobs to pay for his education.
Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. He was steadily promoted and eventually became president of the firm, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress.[6]
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I'll say there was some Catholic guilt going on there.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)I saw that in a land developer in my home town church. A speaker was giving a powerful sermon on deceit and theft and the developer just could not stop crying. No one knew anything until he was arrested about 6 months later.
YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)Is being kicked to the curb by the lunatics
It's basically Frankenstein's monster on the loose in the house!
Sit back pop some corn and a beer .... Just enjoy the ride!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Prism
(5,815 posts)The motion to vacate was the writing on the wall. Once Democrats indicated they wouldn't intervene to keep him, it was all done.
I suspect our party will allow a right-winger to take over Speakership because who knows what totally batshit things he'll come up with during an election year.
It's bad for governance, but it may make for good electoral politics. We'll see. Risky risky.