Kevin McCarthy Abruptly Drops Out of House Speaker Race

New York Times ^ | 10/8/2015 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

[dragnet2]

WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy on Thursday abruptly took himself out of the race to succeed John A. Boehner as speaker, apparently undone by the same forces that drove Mr. Boehner to resign.

[Preston Manning]

Maybe he’s had a Mark Foley Men’s Room Morse Code rendez-vous that’s about to become public.

[Carry_Okie]

There’s not a pol in America who doesn’t claim to be against amnesty—they simply redefine the term to whatever they’d like.

Including the Donald with his Operation Touchback redux: 'We'll bring back the good ones.'

[Romans Nine]

Newt is dead to me.

Newt+Pelosi+couch=Benedict Arnold

[Covenantor]

What difference does it make?

Weeper John is waiting for WH instructions.

;>)

[Carry_Okie]

Back in 2000 when the Gore/Bush election dragged on counting chads, proto-Tea party types surrounded the vice president's residence and shouted "Get out of Cheney's house!"

Um, those were largely FReepers.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It’s time for the Tea Party Caucus to bring forth the bill declaring the Speaker’s chair vacant. There’s no reason why the election among the remaining candidates was postponed. Stop letting the Lame Duck drive the agenda.

[Carry_Okie]

NC Rep Walter Jones Warns Leadership Candidates To Drop Out of Race if Moral Turpitude Issues in Personal Lives…

Nice way to purge the GOPe leadership.

[novemberslady]

It’s time for the Tea Party Caucus to bring forth the bill declaring the Speaker’s chair vacant. There’s no reason why the election among the remaining candidates was postponed. Stop letting the Lame Duck drive the agenda.

bttt

[Arm_Bears]

Big nooz.

What skeleton was unearthed?

[skinndogNN]

Can I just say

WINNING !!!

[Chickensoup]

I thought he was the one who had an affair with another congress woman.

[TBP]

I wonder what’s up.

[Qiviut]

It’s already been published. Ellmers attorney sent a cease & desist letter to GotNews who was not put off at all .... said they stood by their story and were looking forward to ‘discovery’ if it comes to that.

So, the attempt to scare off the published story source was a bust plus they are willing to fight in court .... then on the heels of that, there was the Jones letter, bringing up ‘ethics’ issues with anyone who would be Speaker. McCarthy saw the handwriting on the wall.

[TBP]

Robert Livingston. A descendant of the signer of the Declaration of Independence of the same name.

[TBP]

And instead we got Hastert.

[Qiviut]

I really liked Paul Ryan & he has been quite the disappointment since he abandoned the Tea Party. I’m not sure he CAN go back ... and if he said he did, it would take a lot of current/future ‘action’ to convince me he was sincere. I don’t think this country has that kind of time. We need solid (Tea Party) conservatives now.

[TBP]

McCarthy was doing a fine job of unifying the party — against him.

[txhurl]

Tom DeLay, since at least 2002 with his discoverthenetworks site has assiduously linked every Leftist player and organization, their plans, then and now, and was #1 take-out target for the Commies. The reason you see him animated and smiling in his mugshot is he’s a happy warrior against the Left.

He continues to fly under the radar.

[MarvinStinson]

This breaks my heart.

[TBP]

Do we challenge him for Majority Leader? (I think Scalise was already running for that, wasn’t he?)