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I’m as happy as the next conservative Boehner is retiring and McCarthy won’t be speaker. But I am equally disturbed that those who made this happen seem to have no idea what to do next. They need to come up with a plan quickly or they’re going to end up with someone worse. The dog in the middle of the street with a bumper in its mouth thinking “what do I do now?” usually ends up being run over."

1 posted on 10/10/2015 9:43:57 PM PDT by JSDude1
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Yup.


2 posted on 10/10/2015 9:44:52 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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Newt would know.


3 posted on 10/10/2015 9:46:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Eagles fan after loss to Dallas -- This is the first time I ever saw the "prevent offense".)
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RINOs have had 40 years to gum up the works so a little patience is in order.


4 posted on 10/10/2015 9:46:58 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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The leaders are often the ones who step forward.


5 posted on 10/10/2015 9:47:29 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Ohhhhh,,, gosh. I guess we should be content to let the party elders always be in charge. They should never have to follow us/

This is the modern version of “divine right”.


6 posted on 10/10/2015 9:48:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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“But I am equally disturbed that those who made this happen seem to have no idea what to do next. They need to come up with a plan quickly or they’re going to end up with someone worse.”

So how to you know, at this juncture, that they don't have a plan? The less they telegraph their punches the better. The GOPe is an insidious “boil” on the Republican’s ass, and the are still a majority. Give them more than a day or two to show us what they are going to do.

7 posted on 10/10/2015 9:49:12 PM PDT by vette6387
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I’m kind of hoping that the dog learns to drive that car.


8 posted on 10/10/2015 9:50:15 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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“Nothing against Daniel Webster or Jason Chaffetz, but are they really people who leap to mind when you think “leader?” Or even “articulate and quick-witted conservative”?”

Seems they outwitted your heros sparky. In politics you have no right to anything more than you can win. The establishment has lost. The winners deserve to drive until the establishment can wrest the wheel away.


9 posted on 10/10/2015 9:50:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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Maybe they’ll be the dog that caught the car and dug a hole and buried it. Why not? These are transitional times.


10 posted on 10/10/2015 9:54:54 PM PDT by dr_lew
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Outsiders are leading the pack for President. Why not for Speaker?


11 posted on 10/10/2015 9:58:26 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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Hilarious. The author expects proponents of liberty to exhibit a controlled strategic plan.

Liberty is messy. Deal with it.

12 posted on 10/10/2015 10:07:12 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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This thought has been crossing my mind a lot the last week.


13 posted on 10/10/2015 10:10:20 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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It just amazes me, the people who have spent the last six years surrendering, are now wizened generals trying to mentor conservatives. Who was it that said, “No Battle Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy.” And yet to listen to these guys, they have been master tacticians. Some of what happens next will be shot from the hip, but it is far better than whining, and crying, and giving up before the fight begins.


14 posted on 10/10/2015 10:25:19 PM PDT by Yogafist
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It is enough to have someone who isn’t openly collaborating with the White House.

John Wayne would be nice, but its enough that he isn’t selling us out every day of the week.


17 posted on 10/10/2015 10:33:48 PM PDT by marron
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Nothing against Daniel Webster or Jason Chaffetz, but are they really people who leap to mind when you think “leader?”

I don't really know Daniel Webster, but he has actually been a Speaker of the House, in FL.

18 posted on 10/10/2015 11:24:09 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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Seems to me the establishment has been down this road. Newt was dethroned to be replaced by Livingstone. Livingstone bowed out and resigned his seat when the news of his affairs hit the press. Then Dennis Hastert, an unknown, appeared from nowhere to become Speaker.

How did Hastert work out? Extremely well for the Chamber of Commerce and big doners. Congress perfected the art of the earmark under Hastert and went on a spending orgy which GW Bush refused to reign in with his veto pen. Recently we’ve learned Hastert was a pedophile, involved in crooked land deals as a member of Congress, and a victim of blackmail after leaving office. So much for putting an unknown member of the establishment in charge.

When Hastert stepped down, the establishment gave us the known and proven Boehner. How did that work out? More proof the establishment needs to step aside.


19 posted on 10/11/2015 3:09:19 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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Marsha Blackburn for SPEAKER!


20 posted on 10/11/2015 3:55:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Louie Gohmert, former DA and Judge who believes in the Constitution, would be a good Conservative Speaker.


21 posted on 10/11/2015 4:06:49 AM PDT by octex
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In other words, no matter what happens, the result will be very bad for conservatives. Nothing new here


23 posted on 10/11/2015 7:02:13 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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Anyone with more than three brain cells understands the dog is not trying to catch the car, it is chasing away the car.

So far conservatives have done pretty good at chasing away the GOPe.


26 posted on 10/11/2015 7:52:09 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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