And Mitch, your dumb ass is in sight. The 60 vote rule has prevented the GOP from cutting off funds to PP AND overriding presidents EO on immigration. As much as the democrats like to gloat that 60 vote rule has been the ONLY thing to save their butts.
The rule WAS change by democrats to insure their ability to block if they lost the off year badly. Well they DID but the Rino republicans have thus far REFUSED to change the rule BACK to a simple majority.
Now that is going to change and the simple majority is on its way back. Bohner stood in its way and he is GONE. Mitch stands in the way and he is going to be feeling some NEW pressure to leave his seat if not government as a whole.
The more conservative wing of the GOP is stepping up and taking power and that spells trouble for democrats, a LOT of trouble. They lose their ability to block then they no longer can defend that worthless crap in the oval office.
They will be able to give temporary funding to groups like PP to avoid a shut down and after taking power gut them like a fish. And their will be NOTHING democrats can do. It clears the way for a President Trump/Cruz or Carson to have total and complete power of office.
I fully expect democrats to start whining and crying any MINUTE now.
With Boehner vanquished, U.S. conservatives turn on McConnell
Bye Mitch, write some time.
Time to purge the GOP of anything but the most extreme right wingers. Lets make that 'Big Tent' nothing but a beach umbrella! Because what the GOP needs now is fewer people. As the less people you represent....the better your chances of getting elected.
That's the way democracy works....right?
The republicans are losing it, they're calling boehner a progressive.
Dont know where you have been but the republicans (the real ones) have been trying to get Boehner out of congress since day one. He has always been on the democrats payroll.
this is a good day for America
SO working to keep government open = he's a democrat! lol....
People like you want to kill this country.
We're talking about neo-confederates. Folks who feel that the federal government has too much authority, protects too many individual rights, charges too much in taxes. That feel that their only viable solution is to intentionally and systematically cause the collapse of the federal government by destroying its credit rating, stripping it the ability to effectively collect revenue, and defunding it until it cannnot operate.
Its called 'starving the beast'. They want a default on our national debt, they want to defund the IRS to reduce its capacity to collect revenue and they want to shut the federal government down to the point that it cannot operate.
Worse, there's also a powerful Apocalypse cult within the conservative movement. Cult is pretty much the only word I can think of to describe it. Religiously motivated Christians who believe in end times and the imminent collapse of the US as part of Biblical prophesy. Where the collapse of the US and the suffering of her people is seen as a fulfillment of the cultist's faith.
And most unfortunate of all....the Venn diagram between neo-confederates and Apocalypse cultists is far too close to a circle for any rational person's comfort.