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Sep 24, 2015 19:48
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I'll take number 5, please.
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Sep 24, 2015 19:55
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Why is he such a weepy motherfucker, anyway?
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Sep 24, 2015 20:29
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Boner man is incapable of happiness
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Sep 24, 2015 20:32
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He sure does cry a lot.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:08
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PT6A posted:Why is he such a weepy motherfucker, anyway? the franks thought a man who cried often was possessed of a noble and virtuous soul. Charlemagne was much admired for the way he wept openly at moments of high emotion or drama.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:21
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I'd cry a lot too if I had to deal with the House on a daily basis.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:01
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AARP LARPer has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Sep 25, 2015 00:16
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Sep 25, 2015 02:10
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I don't think he's really crying.
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Sep 25, 2015 12:29
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Though I could be wrong being made being made speaker of the house would be a huge life achievement for anyone.
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Sep 25, 2015 12:30
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Awful case of the booze sweats.
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Sep 25, 2015 12:57
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He's crying because he's resigning at the end of October.....
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Sep 25, 2015 14:40
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AARP LARPer has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Sep 25, 2015 14:41
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Please screen cap all the pictures of him crying today please and thank you.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:56
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Yep. Not just stepping down as Speaker...full on quitting the House. Wow. Why? Isn't he the majority leader? That would seem to be a pretty comfortable position.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:11
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PT6A posted:Why? Isn't he the majority leader? That would seem to be a pretty comfortable position. lol the republican majority is a mess thanks to the Tea party
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Sep 25, 2015 15:15
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PT6A posted:Why? Isn't he the majority leader? That would seem to be a pretty comfortable position. He's been hamstrung, and despite being HOuse Majority leader in an overwhelming sea of Republicans and virtually no viable Democratic opposition, Obama has always gotten a good chunk of what he wanted despite the GOP pledge to deny him everything 
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Sep 25, 2015 15:24
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Is party discipline not a thing in the US? Why are so many politicians willing to compromise their career prospects by going against the higher-ups in the party? Why doesn't he just expel these cantankerous retards from caucus and then support someone else as the candidate in their district in the next election?
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Sep 25, 2015 15:24
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Boehner must 've seen this thread and decided to pack it in. At least now he gets to spend some quality time with his
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Sep 25, 2015 15:25
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PT6A posted:Is party discipline not a thing in the US? Why are so many politicians willing to compromise their career prospects by going against the higher-ups in the party? Why doesn't he just expel these cantankerous retards from caucus and then support someone else as the candidate in their district in the next election? They built a movement based on racism and detachment from reality and now, pardon the cliche', the inmates are running the asylum.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:28
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PT6A posted:Why? Isn't he the majority leader? That would seem to be a pretty comfortable position. The Speaker of the House is above the Majority Leader, and it got less comfortable with all the flames from primary season w/r/t Planned Parenthood
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Sep 25, 2015 15:29
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PT6A posted:Is party discipline not a thing in the US? Why are so many politicians willing to compromise their career prospects by going against the higher-ups in the party? Why doesn't he just expel these cantankerous retards from caucus and then support someone else as the candidate in their district in the next election? As bizarre as it sounds, Citizens United and stricter ethics rules have both dramatically eroded leadership's powers over their members. When any random billionaire can personally fund a Congressman's reelection leadership can't cut off funding, and when you can't earmark millions in random knickknacks in a Congressman's district leadership loses its biggest carrot. Boehner, if he wanted to survive the leadership challenge next month, was going to have to do it on borrowed Democratic support as he didn't have 218 Republicans at his back anymore. Pelosi bailing out Boehner would break his gavel just as effectively as him losing because it would mean he'd lose effective control of the caucus.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:33
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PT6A posted:Is party discipline not a thing in the US? Why are so many politicians willing to compromise their career prospects by going against the higher-ups in the party? Why doesn't he just expel these cantankerous retards from caucus and then support someone else as the candidate in their district in the next election? Party discipline is very much a thing in the US: see, for example, the current Democratic nomination contest and where the party endorsements have gone. However, it is best to think of American political parties as loosely coupled confederacies of smaller parties that would otherwise form coalitions in, e.g., a parliamentary system. In that sense "party discipline" means something entirely different.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:00
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PT6A posted:Is party discipline not a thing in the US? Why are so many politicians willing to compromise their career prospects by going against the higher-ups in the party? Why doesn't he just expel these cantankerous retards from caucus and then support someone else as the candidate in their district in the next election? Because tea party fanatics now have lots of billion dollar sugar daddies to fund them and they also did really well enough in elections to form their own GOP faction.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:14
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A Swampy Boehner
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Sep 25, 2015 18:18
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PT6A posted:Why? Isn't he the majority leader? That would seem to be a pretty comfortable position. Are you playing dumb? Remember when Redford quit because her caucus wouldn't support her?
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Sep 25, 2015 18:20
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It's funny because when I was in civics in high school, the received wisdom was that the Republicans were an orderly, lockstep bunch, and the Democrats (by virtue of their bigger tent) were perpetually lacking in party discipline. Now most Democrats are more than happy to vote for Clinton, Sanders, or Biden, broadly agree on what the party's platform should be, and have worked well with each other and with the president to stymie Republican designs for years. The Republicans, meanwhile, yeesh *tugs at collar*Thump! posted:He sure does cry a lot.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:23
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Pinterest Mom posted:Are you playing dumb? Remember when Redford quit because her caucus wouldn't support her? Has Boner been nearly as scandal-plagued as she was? From what I've heard, he's been an obstinate jackass to everything the Democrats want to do, which I assume is what his party asked of him, no?
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Sep 25, 2015 18:25
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This video shows what happened at Voter Values Summit when it was announced he is resigning https://twitter.com/chapotts/status/647410157094326272
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Sep 25, 2015 18:27
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This video shows what happened at Voter Values Summit when it was announced he is resigning   
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Sep 25, 2015 18:30
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This video shows what happened at Voter Values Summit when it was announced he is resigning please stop making me side with the orange boner man tea party people
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Sep 25, 2015 19:13
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PT6A posted:Has Boner been nearly as scandal-plagued as she was? From what I've heard, he's been an obstinate jackass to everything the Democrats want to do, which I assume is what his party asked of him, no? Well, no. Every single time, Boehner would eventually cave and pass a "clean" bill with Democratic votes. When push came to shove, he always chose governing over his caucus' right-wing.
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Sep 25, 2015 19:17
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RIP congressman crying cheeto    
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Sep 25, 2015 19:26
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Obama is horrible but his was a really good joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXa2ZeR7Jk
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Sep 25, 2015 19:43
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Pinterest Mom posted:Well, no. Every single time, Boehner would eventually cave and pass a "clean" bill with Democratic votes. When push came to shove, he always chose governing over his caucus' right-wing. He couldn't control his caucus so he couldn't deliver the votes to make good on any deals he made with the Democrats. Then he would pander to his base until time ran out, and he'd finally agree to something worse than he had originally in the ensuing panic. He needed to either go in full opposition mode or full governing mode. By trying to do both he ended up doing neither.
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Sep 25, 2015 20:15
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Deteriorata posted:He couldn't control his caucus so he couldn't deliver the votes to make good on any deals he made with the Democrats. Then he would pander to his base until time ran out, and he'd finally agree to something worse than he had originally in the ensuing panic. Due to the GOP civil war he pretty much had no luck whipping all the different factions together into a strategy.
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cant wait for the GOP to break up
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