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Party discipline against the Democrats' scrambling to hold a coalition together was the Republicans' advantage for a long time, but they've been loosing it since the Tea Party kicked off and it doesn't seem likely they'll get it back that quickly if at all.





kleinbl00  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am eagerly anticipating a brutal internecine struggle of succession.

goobster  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How much you wanna bet that Paul Ryan comes out on top of the pile of bodies, dusting rubble off his shoulders, and looking suspiciously like John Boehner?

Paul Ryan is, sadly, the moderate voice of the Republican Party, and his loyalty to the party, and repudiation of Trump will teflon-coat him for the next 20 years, I bet.

And that sucks. Because he's an asshole.

kleinbl00  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sure he wants that to happen. However, I think anyone who thinks they can predict which way the hurricane blows is as likely to be blown over twice as hard as they are to bend with the wind.

I firmly believe that if anyone had any control or precognition over this cataclysm, it wouldn't be a cataclysm. I suspect that the reason all the adults are staying mum and ducking and covering is they know that the best place to be in a tornado is in the basement.

user-inactivated  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wrote #boehnerdodgedabullet the other day as a community tag for another thread. It got overwritten. Some people are humorless.

goobster  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Make no mistake, the blame for the totally non-functional relationship between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch lays solidly at the feet of Boehner, and history will not be nice to him.

But yeah... he dodged a Trump-shaped bullet!

And I think John Boehner Jr (aka - Paul Ryan) is made out of pure Teflon. Or maybe we should call it "Clintonium" after Bill Clinton's stint in the White House...

ecib  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel like "repudiating" is simply too strong a word to use to describe the man he is endorsing.

Till he stops that he's just "less enthusiastic" afaic.