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| U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) left with U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers |
"With all the voter distrust of Washington felt around the country, I’m asking that any candidate for Speaker of the House, majority leader, and majority whip withdraw himself from the leadership election if there are any misdeeds he has committed since joining Congress that will embarrass himself, the Republican Conference, and the House of Representatives if they become public," Jones wrote.
"Some of the most difficult times have been when our Republican leaders or potential Republican leaders must step down because of skeletons in their closets," Jones wrote.
"As members of the House of Representatives, we need to be able to represent the will of the people unhindered by potentially embarrassing scandals."Was Rep. Jones' letter directed at McCarthy? Perhaps. A controversial blogger, Charles C Johnson, alleged at his website, GotNews.com, that McCarthy was having an affair with Rep. Renee Ellmers, who also hails from Jones' home state of North Carolina. Johnson posted a story on his blog earlier today about a "cease and desist" letter he received from Ellmers' attorney. Johnson didn't back down from his allegations about the alleged affair between McCarthy and Elmers.
Both McCarthy and Ellmers are married. In Jones' letter to his fellow caucus members, he cited the names of former Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Majority Leader Bob Livingstone, both of whom resigned successively over allegations of marital infidelity during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings following the Monica Lewinsky scandal. As a result of McCarthy's announcement today, House Republicans are delaying the vote planned for today to replace retiring Speaker John Boehner.
It's getting close to Halloween and now it's starting to look like another nightmare on Elm Street. Newt Gingrich tells Sean Hannity he's willing to become Speaker of the House again if asked to serve. Technically, the Speaker of the House doesn't have to be a sitting member of Congress. Ugh! Hopefully, the GOP caucus isn't that stupid.
They hate Obama,the black male, but love the blackmail because McCarthy is not really one of their own and anyway they will do what it takes. Shut it down, bankrupt the nation, dismantle the institutions, then put it back together tea party style. It's just the ying and yang of where there is chaos there is opportunity and chaos is to be embraced. "Where My Country Gone?"
ReplyDeleteAnon 8:06, FYI: The nation's already "bankrupt."
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to the punch, Pete.
DeleteI'd say that Justin Amash from Michigan would make a good Speaker!
DeleteWell, rinoly speaking, replacing boner with the grinch wouldn't change anything, the grinch is the rino poster child.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a just taste of national bankruptcy, without having to resurrect the 1930's, then consider 2008 when the large banks were on the verge of insolvency, established brokerage firms went completely under, insurers went bust, the housing market collapsed, corporations and individuals could not get loans, the financial markets were in free-fall, and the country was losing 80,000 jobs per month. The Bush Republicans were in a panic and what is probably today something like the Freedom Caucus saw no role in the government intervening in financial markets. The Tea Party Shutdown of 2013 is estimated to have cost the economy some $23 billion and the threat of not servicing debt acquired in the previous year still affects our economy. Now the 2008 period was nothing like the depression of the 30's but there was a tipping point where it may have been.
ReplyDeleteNow to these Freedom People who see no harm in 'shuttin' her down' or defaulting on our national debt to soothe their ideology, it would seem that they are the most significant threat to our country either foreign or domestic. So when I hear the wailing and sobbing in the halls of our Capitol of those attending the Republican caucus, I say it's about time to grow a pair. If you can't control some 40 of the 247 members who trouble your house then your whole party will certainly inherit the wind.
The fatal wound struck the world economy in 2008 is nearing systemic collapse due to gangrene and septicemia flowing freely from central banks and those who profit from their operations to every cell. With the repeal of Glass Steagall and the like, things are set for a catastrophe of epic proport, even greater than the "great" depression. Not only have they passed legislation to legalise bail ins where depositors will lose their deposits and fdic insurance to the banks creditors, if the bank goes completely under depositors lose everything they had in that bank as creditors get first dibs, even on depositors fdic insurance. Sorry, you lose, good day sir.
ReplyDeleteAnd just like the "great" depression, the central banksters know what they're doing, just as 0bama knows what he's doing is ruining the country let alone the world. They're not inept, doddering from one foible that makes headlines to the next, no, they know exactly what is going on and how to manipulate it. It's all planned by the great central planners, those experts, the great men and women of finance and industry.
I fear they have something much worse in store for us in the near future. I'm sure the dems/rinos will blame conservative Americans.
And more to my point;
ReplyDelete"In the last 24 months, Canada, Cyprus, New Zealand, the US, the UK, and now Germany have all implemented legislation that would allow them to first FREEZE and then SEIZE bank assets during the next crisis.
These moves will be sold as “for the public’s good,” when they happen. But the reality is that it’s all about stopping people from moving their capital into actual physical cash."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-09/europe-reveals-how-accounts-will-be-frozen-during-next-crisis
Josh, stop quoting ZeroHedge. It was credible seven years ago. Now it is consistently wrong. You have it backwards anyway. Capital controls are not about moving to physical cash. They already have plenty of methods of preventing that. Capital controls are about moving money out of the country, physical, electronic, whatever.
ReplyDeleteI didn't say cap controls are for moving to cash. They're for stealing the deposits of account holders regardless of who ends up with the money. I'll stop reading zerohedge and start listening to you from now on since you're the proven expert.
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