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Kevin McCarthy’s implosion signals a full-blown Republican revolution
Washington Post ^ | 10/8/15 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 10/08/2015 12:48:09 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson

Edited on 10/08/2015 1:30:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

McCarthy's demise comes hard on the heels of Boehner bowing out of the speakership as a sort of human sacrifice to the tea party right. And it happens as Donald Trump is in the midst of his fourth consecutive month as the Republican front-runner for the party's presidential nomination -- and with Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, two other people who have never held elected office before, running in second and third place, respectively.


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To: Zenjitsuman

I want Newt!


41 posted on 10/08/2015 1:07:54 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

and now it’s Romney for speaker


42 posted on 10/08/2015 1:08:27 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NRx

I guess my question would be: Is it tea party people political anarchy when the leadership promised action on those issues most important to voters these last two congressional elections that swept them into their positions of power?

Seems to me that the political anarchy comes when those that are sent to Washington in positions of power to do a job on behalf of the voters that put them there instead immediately scuttle action unless deemed proper by those few...after all who is the authority here? The representatives or the voters that put them there?


43 posted on 10/08/2015 1:11:16 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: detective
The little drama queen from the Washington Post is in full form.

Its pretty clear who's side he is on:

This threat to the establishment from the conservative activist base is real. The sooner the establishment realizes it -- and the resignation of Boehner/demise of McCarthy should help them get it -- the better chance they will have to combat it.

44 posted on 10/08/2015 1:12:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: NRx

usually governing is about give and take (or God forbid, compromise)...

better to win 80% of something than 100% of zero


45 posted on 10/08/2015 1:12:06 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: Jeff Head

Now, if we could only get Neut to agree to it...


46 posted on 10/08/2015 1:12:09 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

This is why you continue to fight, you never know when the other side will cave in.


47 posted on 10/08/2015 1:12:56 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“And that is different from today how exactly?”

Game, set, match. Norm.


48 posted on 10/08/2015 1:13:04 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: MNlurker

“immediately scuttle action” on the entire platform on which they were elected.

The RINOs promise X and do NEGATIVE X; the exact opposite.

Fund 0bamacare.

Fund Executive Amnesty.

Fund Planned Death.

You cannot find a conservative priority they have not actively undermined.

RINOs ARE THE OPPOSITION WE DESPISE, FUNCTIONALLY, IN PRINICPLE, IDEOLOGICALLY AND POLITICALLY.

RINOS ARE ON THE RUN! KEEP FIRING!!!!


49 posted on 10/08/2015 1:14:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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To: Hugin

Perhaps, looks like some Republican wrote a letter stating that the House Speaker must be clean of any scandal that can do harm to Congress and the party.


50 posted on 10/08/2015 1:14:05 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Vince Ferrer

Do all political parties combat their base or is it just this one? HA!


51 posted on 10/08/2015 1:14:36 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

Right now, we get 100% of what 0bama wants, 100% of the time, thanks to Boner and McTurtle.

So anything else is upside.


52 posted on 10/08/2015 1:15:17 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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To: NRx
We gave the GOP it's largest majority in a 100 years.

Yet, they continue to bow down to Obama.

Enough is enough.

53 posted on 10/08/2015 1:15:18 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: kabar
Boehner is finished.

He would be voted out.

54 posted on 10/08/2015 1:15:51 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Amen Brother.

Fire for effect!


55 posted on 10/08/2015 1:15:53 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

So, the current motto of the Washington GROPe elites is “Better to agree with the democrats 100% of the time and be criticized all the time and be blamed for everything all of the time; than to win something 80% of the time and still be criticized 100% of the time.


56 posted on 10/08/2015 1:16:02 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

Time for the elcted conservatives to act like conservatives and elect a conservative leader in the house, not just the next guy who’s “turn it is”.

Times are a changing and the House GOP better get with the program. Unfortunately with elected officials, there is little quality, but we need someone of high quality.


57 posted on 10/08/2015 1:16:25 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

Its not that hard for the GOPe to figure out.

Adhere to the Constitution and nothing more. If you cannot do that then you do not represent the people that demand it.


58 posted on 10/08/2015 1:16:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: fortheDeclaration

how do they override obama’s vetoes?


59 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:35 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: erkelly

Not at all...

Every fire of any real consequence needs a requisite spark large and powerful to not only ignite it...

But Sustain It...


60 posted on 10/08/2015 1:18:21 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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