On Tuesday, Ted Cruz-endorsed Congressman Tim Huelskamp was defeated by challenger Roger Marshall in the primary race for Kansas’s first district, becoming one of the first sitting Tea Party representatives to lose to an establishment-backed Republican. Before that happened, though, Huelskamp told everyone to scram.
Ex-Speaker of the House John Boehner, clearly a little bored in retirement, has announced his support for non-candidate Paul Ryan’s presidential bid, which does not exist.
In his retirement from public office, John Boehner is a man whose lawn maintenance has become far more important than the looming crisis in his political party. “I’m not really interested in getting in the middle of all this,” the former Speaker of the House said, just before he inserted himself back into the middle of all this.
At some point in 2014, long before House Republicans offed leader John Boehner, they reportedly recruited as his replacement a man who was a mostly unknown figure at the time: Dr. Ben Carson.
John Boehner left Congress in October. Traditionally, the law states that the government will pay for ex-Speakers of the House to keep an office on Capitol Hill for five years with up to three aides. Today, two House Republicans announced they intend to end that practice. Hmmm.
As a descendant of Irish peasants and a graduate of a Catholic high school, I personally know that “Catholic guilt” can be a cruel and unyielding master. Little did I know that that same Catholic guilt is used to decide some of the most important decisions in the United States government.
Kevin McCarthy, who up until a few hours ago had been the clear frontrunner, has pulled out of the race to replace the retiring John Boehner as Speaker of the House. And now, Congress has descended into hell’s most tearful, mind-numbing pit of fiery chaos. [Updated]
While Boehner is almost sure to stave off a government shutdown before the September 30 deadline, the looming debt ceiling—which we’re estimated to reach sometime in mid-December—presents a much larger problem. But earlier this morning, Boehner told reporters that he’s not ruling out a vote to raise the country’s borrowing limit. And considering Boehner’s replacement will likely be far more compliant to the party’s whims, this could be the best chance we’ve got.
John Boehner, the orange in a necktie who had recently emerged as the relative voice of sanity in a budget battle that’s been stalled out by his Republican party’s far right wing, will leave Congress and resign as Speaker of the House in October. The New York Times broke the news, citing aides in Boehner’s office.
A former bartender at John Boehner's country club was indicted last week after he allegedly admitted he was planning to murder the politician.
Republicans of the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to mount a lawsuit against President Obama. In a measure that operates independent of Senate approval, House Republicans are accusing Obama of exceeding his executive authority in his implementation of the Affordable Healthcare Act.
