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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 13:01:48 2015 fiogf49gjkf0d The NY Times seems sad. Kevin McCarthy Drops Out of House Speaker Race By Jennifer Steinhauer and David M. Herszenhorn Oct. 8, 2015 Representative Kevin McCarthy on Thursday abruptly took himself out of the race to succeed John A. Boehner as House speaker, apparently undone by the same forces that drove Mr. Boehner to resign. Mr. McCarthy’s candidacy was damaged when he suggested in an interview on Fox News last week that the House committee investigating Benghazi had the political aim of damaging Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. As shocked members left the room there was a sense of total disarray, with no clear path forward and no set date for a new vote. Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said that in dropping out of race, Mr. McCarthy told the room, “I’m not the one to unify the party.” A group of about 40 hard-line House conservatives announced Wednesday night that they would support Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, making it unclear whether Mr. McCarthy could assemble the 218 votes on the floor that he would need to be elected later this month. Representative David Jolly, Republican of Florida, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, which opposed Mr. McCarthy, was asked how the party could unify. “It’s going to take a hard family conversation,” he said.
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Posted by Dave* on Thu Oct 8 15:15:21 2015, in response to Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 13:01:48 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d Whoa!
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Thu Oct 8 15:21:05 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Dave on Thu Oct 8 15:15:21 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d And now Boehner is suspending the election for SOTH. Out of spite, it seems to me, since McCarthy was Boehner's own recommendation.
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Posted by Joe V* on Thu Oct 8 15:22:22 2015, in response to Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 13:01:48 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d "House committee investigating Benghazi had the political aim of damaging Hillary " To say nothing of the EXTEREME disrespect for the 4 who died in Benghazi, he must have had one too many beers (truth serum) before FOX and spilled his cookies.
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Posted by cortelyounext* on Thu Oct 8 15:31:10 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 15:21:05 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d What are you even talking about now? One cannot suspend the election for SOTH based purely on spite. Here
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Posted by Joe V* on Thu Oct 8 15:38:10 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by cortelyounext on Thu Oct 8 15:31:10 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d No point in election since neither of the 2 runner-ups could possibly get 218 votes. Speaker is supposed to represent the entire House, not an extreme faction of the majority party.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Thu Oct 8 15:41:22 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by cortelyounext on Thu Oct 8 15:31:10 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d In a post-constitutional society, anything's possible.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Thu Oct 8 15:42:08 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 8 15:38:10 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d Speaker is supposed to represent the entire House, not an extreme faction of the majority party And that's why Boehner is out. He didn't represent the entire House.
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Posted by Joe V* on Thu Oct 8 15:46:54 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 15:42:08 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d What did he represent ?
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Posted by Joe V* on Thu Oct 8 15:48:13 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 15:41:22 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d Constitution didn't say a thing about political parties, yet everything Congress does and leads depends on them.
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Posted by AlM* on Thu Oct 8 16:00:14 2015, in response to Re: Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 8 15:38:10 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d All the news has been about the tea partiers. What are the 30 or 40 Republicans who might actually lose an election in 2016 going to do? No one can win without some of their votes too.
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Posted by bingbong* on Thu Oct 8 18:53:13 2015, in response to Kevin McCarthy is out, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 8 13:01:48 2015.* fiogf49gjkf0d One could say they're enjoying this, it's like looking at trainwrecks. OTOH, it IS a trainwreck. Wow.
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