Thursday, October 08, 2015

The USA is in trouble. The US House is in turmoil.

There should not be this level of confusion in regard to who follows the resignation of the Speaker. We are talking the third person in line for President.

At least John Boehner will postpone his resignation. This EPISODE of the crisis in leadership in the Republican Party should have taught the Republican extremists a direly needed lesson. Speaker Boehner should realize he now has a free hand to resolve disagreements about legislation going forward. If that was his thought from the beginning, then well done. 

The Republican's culled their incumbents. This is the result. The USA has an incompetent House. There are more investigations with absolutely no resolve and repeating votes over and over is a crisis.

The members in line for the Speakership are not qualified to be in those positions. All the Republican leadership need to resign and allow new members take their place after the vote is finalized. But, I mean from the ground up in the House.

October 8, 2015

...McCarthy,(click hear) the majority leader who's favored to become the next speaker of the House, has energetically nurtured GOP legislators in the House since he was elected to Congress nine years ago. He recruited many of the young conservatives who helped the Republicans retake control of the House in the 2010 elections. They owe him a lot.

All of which instantly made McCarthy the odds-on favorite to succeed John Boehner, who decided to step down as a revolt rumbled on the party's right.
But all of which will count for not much if McCarthy can't find a way to balance the competing demands in the Republican-controlled House. Restive conservatives are seeking a more aggressive stance against President Barack Obama, while others feel a pragmatic need for compromise to get things done in the era of oh-so-divided government....