Trump thanks Dutch White Supremacist and Race War advocate for his support on twitter.
Some House Republicans apparently crying over McCarthy’s fall.
Since there appears to be no significant House figure willing to run for Speaker, there’s a massive push to cajole and pressure Paul Ryan into running. It seems crystal clear that he really, really doesn’t want the job. But that doesn’t mean he won’t end up agreeing to take it. But here’s the thing. People are starting to seriously moot the idea of Boehner remaining on in a caretaker role through the 2016 election. He doesn’t need 218 votes. He’s already Speaker. He doesn’t need anything.
So you can keep track, we’ve assembled a list of all the things Republicans are now blaming gun deaths on … beside guns, of course.
Darrell Issa suggesting that he might be the guy to replace John Boehner is a pretty powerful statement of just how lost these guys are without Boehner and his anointed and now defenestrated successor.
Over the years, as I became more and more of a publisher and small business owner, and devoted more and more time to those roles, I sometimes thought that I’d write a better blog about Internet publishing than politics since so much of my headspace was necessarily involved in everything that goes into publishing. I’ve had to learn quite a bit about it because the success of TPM has depended heavily on that knowledge and being able to act quickly on it. At the same time, if you’re interested in the future of the U.S. economy, technology, and how it all plays out in our economic and civic lives, there’s no more important and frankly fascinating topic than the long-term struggle between a three-way nexus of companies fighting over the future of technology, telecommunications, and what we awfully but now inevitably call “content” – songs, articles, images, everything that minds devise and want to share with others, almost always for money.
Clearly from everything we’re hearing, basically every Republican is hoping, begging, pleading with Paul Ryan to run for Speaker. And it seems clear he has the votes and then some. But here’s what’s not clear to me. The premise of the Ryan boomlet or avalanche is that he has so much heft and power – or popularity which means power and heft – that the Freedom Caucus and associated folks will essentially say, Okay, cool no shutdowns or debt default hostage taking.
And that seems like a very questionable proposition.
I won’t say no one’s noticed. After all, the arresting nature of the phrase “rock bottom” is the reason Kevin McCarthy’s statement garnered so many headlines. But has anyone really focused on the fact that the pre-deposed Speaker-to-be Kevin McCarthy used a phrase to describe the state of the House GOP most commonly associated with drug addicts and alcoholics?
Shockingly, a lot of House hardliners say they can never support Paul Ryan as Speaker.