I realize that many of you in congress may feel like my congressman? from TX District 19. When I first advised him that he should not vote for Boehner to be Speaker of the House he stopped sending me hin information letters and has cut off all correspondence. I do think him though for the has raised a son to the right way of thinking because his son gave My Senator Cruz 10M dollars. But since Cong. Neighmeir has abandonded me I don't have a representative in the House Since Boehner is no longer strong arming the members Cong. Neighmeir may be replaced on some of those committees and he can get back to representing me.

Oh, Cong. Neighmeir I do suggest you may vote to elect someone that reprenets the people. Clue, the presidential race the people are suggesting the new Pres be someone that is not part of the DC group, how about 62% to your 38%.

I normally tell a prognosticator of political upheavals..."you don't know that for sure."

Having said that, I am inclined to agree with your prognostication today in this matter. We need a "radically" different replacement. If not, we are blowing wind in hoping Boehner's stepping down will make any kind of significant difference. Truth is, McCarthy is of that same old consuming Borg mould I wrote about in my diary earlier today. Same assimilation into the same old pattern of the same old establishment.

Millions of us do not want change just for the sake of change. We want change that makes a difference and replaces that damned establishment factor that is just another branch of the Democrats. Am I wrong? If so, tell me how.

Shalom and have a great weekend all!

We need to start pushing names of conservative house members to run for Speaker. I'm sure Boehner and the GOP failure caucus have their candidates lined up already.

Agreed. Daniel Webster is already making noise (And he's on my list on those who need a good primarying.)

If it has to be Congress Critter-(I'd love to see Palin drive them mad, and technically it doesn't have to be a current member of the House)-
My top choices would be: Justin Amash (MI-3rd), Trey Gowdy (SC-4th), or Dave Brat (VA-7th) with Brat being the Schadenfreude vote. (It would also hold the possibility of spiking Trump and Fiorina's tires.)

While we have had our differences, I completely agree with the headline on this. We keep expecting that they will live up to their words. Enough...Enough.

As you are aware...my suggestion was to vote for Grimes when it came to McConnell and take the power away from the good ole boys in the Senate. What in the heck makes people even think that McCarthy will be any different than Boehner.

Look at what we will fund in this next bill. Can you believe this with the PP and their baby parts? This is cave man stuff. Does God even exist in our elected officials minds? Sad part...we should know better by this time. STOP ELECTING CRIMINALS.

Looks like Boenhead's butt-kissers are coming out looking for a shot at the throne.
http://www.breitbart.com/vi...

This schmuck also won't be an improvement.
https://www.conservativerev...

Conservatives need to wake up:
If McCarthy is the new speaker we will have won nothing. In fact, we will have lost.
Consider: "Conservatives" will have traded planned parenthood funding and debt ceiling increase for a LESS DAMAGED Establicrat in the speaker's chair. The Establicrats actually gave up nothing.
Boehner is expendable to them if they can guarantee McCarthy gets the chair - and you can bet the farm that they are confident McCarthy gets the chair or they wouldn't have had Boehner resign.

Did the establishment see a storm brewing to replace Boehner with a conservative that might have put a principled legislator in the job ?
McCarthy is a Boehner clone when it comes to fighting Obama's agenda .

From the Washington Post:

"The shocking move, first
reported by The New York Times, means there's unlikely to be a government
shutdown next week. Following Boehner's announcement, House
Republicans said there was agreement to pass a clean spending bill to
avert a government shutdown. Several members of the Freedom Caucus, the
conservative group which led the revolt against Boehner's leadership, said they
will now support the spending bill without demands to defund Planned
Parenthood attached to it."

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

These turncoats need to be named, shamed and Primaried.

What the ....?? I hope that's not true.

If McCarthy is elected Speaker it will prove that the majority of GOP in the House do, indeed, think we are the stupid masses. They think that way because us stupid masses keep electing them...

I think this sets up the next month as something of a trial speakership for McCarthy. As a lame duck, Boehner won't have much sway with the caucus, and will probably defer to McCarthy on major decisions. And Boehner's announcement opens the door for McCarthy to cut a different strategy on the budget than what was being done under Boehner. If the caucus is satisfied with the results, he'll likely win the Speakership easily. If not, there will be a big opening for someone else to step up.

The outcome is a foregone conclusion, Leon. You are asking the same group of scoundrels who elected Boehner as Speaker to show a sudden burst of wisdom in rejecting his hand-picked #2. That simply will not happen. The only solution is primary, primary, primary. You are absolutely correct that McCarthy "should start from day one with just as much skepticism from conservatives both in the caucus and in the voting booth as Boehner does."

McCarthy is a longtime ally of Boehner who spent 4 years as Majority Whip on Boehner's failed leadership team, before he moved into Eric Cantor's post as Majority Leader. Him moving to Speaker means conservatives win nothing. Boehner out and McCarthy in is the definition of a Pyrrhic victory.

The Heritage Action Scorcard..which Red State prominently features whenever a Representative of Senator is mentioned, has the House GOP average score at 68%.
McCarthy's score this year is 63%..his LIFETIME score is 53%

House conservatives..this man is NOT the answer..you've won a major victory..now don't throw it away..

Heritage Action changed their scoring so that no one can get a good score unless he/she lets Heritage Action determine how they vote on individual legislation. When Heritage Foundation was a think tank giving us information on issues to let us decide for ourselves, such a scoring system was noteworthy. Now it's meaningless other than to tell me who is allowing a Washington lobbying organization determine what they support or oppose.

When that happens on the left we all rightfully decry it.

Agreed. I'm going to email my congress critter and leave a voicemail as well recommending they choose someone currently outside of Congress for the Speaker's chair like Lt. Col. Allen West.

Palin or Perry would be great.

Throughout the country, Palin is a laughingstock. If such a thing ever came to pass, it would ensure a permanent Democrat majority for years to come.

I don't laugh at her. I respect her. And so does Erick Erickson. You'd be wise to do the same.

Speak for yourself.

I followed Palin's career early on, even before McCain picked her for the VP spot......and thought she was terrific. He didn't do her any favors, in terms of preparing her for what she was about to face. All the character assassination and slander from the media which followed was vile, you and I both know that. But if the media wanted to hang her, Palin pretty much handed them the rope, time and again. She's reacted to all of it with bitterness and anger, and often seems unhinged.

She would have done well to heed the words of Nixon: "Never get discouraged, never get petty. Always remember, others may hate you; but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

just terrible - seriously comparing Palin to Nixon and blaming her for the bull she has had to put up with? I can't even...just horrible. Don't upvote my comment that she should be respected and follow up with such ridiculous tripe. Seriously your comment is almost to the level of cleanup aisle 1.

"Seriously your comment is almost to the level of cleanup aisle 1."
Coming from the king of the trumpkins? You're funny. As to the upvote, just seems like you needed some encouragement these days, hehe.

If you think I'm the King of the Trumpkins, you haven't been paying attention. I don't have my head up my ass, unlike certain folks as I could mention.

Good point.. Palin would be awesome. (And it would leave West available to become the next SecDef)

GOP needs a new way of thinking -- party of Main St. and not Wall St, enough with the typical establishment BS.
A new face won't cut it. We need new thinking.

the reality is that short of a presidential election, those chosen to lead in the House/Senate is probably the single most critical decision when it comes to what will actually get done (or prevented) in the united states government...for the life of me I cannot understand why they voted tor retain this guy and McConnell in the first place.

Spot on, Leon. McCarthy has been part of the problem and he would just be Boehner in drag. He is also even more liberal than Boehner. We need a complete break from this failed leadership team.

Maybe this will inspire Senate GOP conservatives to go after McConnell. They'd have the votes..if someone would just challenge him