Here's an out-there idea for you- Boehner may be way, way smarter than we give him credit- and I mean, *any* of us ^^
He is, right now, the only candidate who can have the job without signing something absurd, the Freedom Caucus pledges do basically amount to "Once Speaker, I won't Speaker, I'll just plow the government into shutdown while making demands that will never be met. During election primaries."
Since no one is stepping up or can get the votes if they did, his 'I'll stay to you get a replacement,' can just mean, 'I will stay and you can no longer threaten to replace me because if you had a candidate I'd be retired already.' He can just kinda hang out in the job 'waiting for his replacement,' with all the worries about keeping it, woosh, right out the window.
Lame duck Boehner may be safer and less stressful than 'fighting for the job' Boehner ever was before.
Granted, I don't think Boehner has enough foresight to have done it on purpose, but wouldn't it be funny if it was actually a machiavellian plan to keep the job on his part?
Originally posted by Q99
Here's an out-there idea for you- Boehner may be way, way smarter than we give him credit- and I mean, *any* of us ^^He is, right now, the only candidate who can have the job without signing something absurd, the Freedom Caucus pledges do basically amount to "Once Speaker, I won't Speaker, I'll just plow the government into shutdown while making demands that will never be met. During election primaries."
Since no one is stepping up or can get the votes if they did, his 'I'll stay to you get a replacement,' can just mean, 'I will stay and you can no longer threaten to replace me because if you had a candidate I'd be retired already.' He can just kinda hang out in the job 'waiting for his replacement,' with all the worries about keeping it, woosh, right out the window.
Lame duck Boehner may be safer and less stressful than 'fighting for the job' Boehner ever was before.
Granted, I don't think Boehner has enough foresight to have done it on purpose, but wouldn't it be funny if it was actually a machiavellian plan to keep the job on his part?
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Ahh, the old Sepp Blatter "pretend to resign and try to cling to power thanks to uncertainty over a viable successor" trick, except it might work because as far as I know Boehner isn't under any serious legal scrutiny.
Yea, Boehner's either stepping down because he wants to, or if he actually called this reaction, baiting out just how hard to replace he actually is.
Christian Science Monitor- Boehner is looking really good right now
"Sometimes the dog catches the car and doesn't know what to do," Rep. Steve Stivers (R) of Ohio, a Boehner ally, said of the House Freedom Caucus and other hard-right lawmakers.
"Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) of Florida said the speaker's election should be postponed until next year, with Boehner remaining as speaker in the meantime."
Chicago Tribune- Boehner's here to stay for now, with nothing to lose
"It is ironic how smart John Boehner's looking," said Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. "Frankly, all this talk of a fresh new face sounds very sweet on the surface, but we're not electing a student council president. His stock rises with the prospects of an alternative and the steadiness of his hand, the clarity of his positions — whether you like them or not — and the fact he's not prone to panic. It's all looking really good right about now."
Well....
Looks like I may have called it ^^ Or at least other people are putting together the same dots I did.
Originally posted by Bardock42
How do you feel about it?
Not good actually, Paul Ryan decided to speak out against Trump on his ban all muslim comments, when Ryan knows they can get in with passports made by ISIS< and his refusal to denounce the attacks in California?
I knew this guy was a scum bag, but I didn't expect it to come out this early.