The speaker chase: Who’s next?

washingtonpost ^ | 10/8 | costa

[WENDLE]

This is so great!! The GOPE in total retreat now. We must salt their land so they never come back.

[conservativegranny]

Amazing quote RummyChick. If grown men are weeping over this speakership there must be more at stake than we are aware of.

Sounds to me like they are afraid of something. What is it? Losing power, money or???? Curious-er and Curious-er. What must our enemies think of our leaders? How embarrassing.

[Slyfox]

"People are crying. They don’t have any idea how this will unfold at all."

[Uncle Miltie]

“a handful of House Republicans weeping Thursday over the downfall of McCarthy”

Boner’s Crybaby Constituency

[RummyChick]

Charles Rangel ✔ @cbrangel Made myself a smoothie in my office & watching news about GOP mtg to elect next Speaker not going smoothly

http://gawker.com/house-speaker-race-beset-by-chaos-weeping-romney-1735479333

[nitzy]

Rep. Dent (R) - "There are a number of members of our conference. You cannot get the yes on anything. For them the end will be the good."

Is he saying what I think he is saying?

Is he saying that, as opposed to the knuckle draggers he mentions, to him "the means will be the good"????

Or in other words, the effect of law which is passed is not important but the way the law is passed is what is important.

Yikes

[RummyChick]

GOPE

[Enterprise]

"It is total confusion — a banana republic,” said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.),"

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

[EternalVigilance]

Make ‘em all cry!

[EternalVigilance]

Gotta love Rangel’s “I love me” wall in the background of that pic.

[RummyChick]

I don't even understand what Matthews meant here:

@LukeRussert The great @hardball_chris on McCarthy news "This is news, this is big, this is toilet overflowing in the carnival line big!"

[Iron Munro]

[EternalVigilance]

“I love me, and I love my smoothies!”

[RummyChick]

Here is the other one he posted

[EternalVigilance]

Bizzaro World has truly arrived.

[Enterprise]

"People are crying. They don’t have any idea how this will unfold at all.”

WOW! Gives me all kinds of confidence in the Republican leadership. /s

[EternalVigilance]

Wow. A picture of a cadaver drinking a smoothie.

How odd...

[RummyChick]

We Are Tea Party ‏@WeAreTeaParty 9m9 minutes ago GOP establishment crying. It's about time. http://wpo.st/rImf0

[hoosiermama]

Rep from one of the Carolinas wrote an open letter asking anyone with a hidden problem to please step aside. McCarthy did within hours. May be reason others are not offering themselves. Too many with moral issues

[Political Junkie Too]

How about just let the caucus process work itself out?

Usually, this caucus vote would continue multiple times with various slates of contenders, as repeated voting draws out the consensus thinking of the body. If neither remaining candidate can get a majority, then new candidates will step up as factions combine and split with each iteration, until a consensus candidate emerges.

At least, that's how it used to be done before careerists took over and made every vote a scripted, pre-determined outcome that served only to protect their own interests. Now, lame-duck Boehner is preventing House Republicans from caucusing to discover their mutually agreeable Speaker. Instead, Boehner is slinking back into the smoky room for more scripting.

-PJ