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January 19, 2015

How To Become and Stay Speaker: Friends close. Enemies closer. Convert enemies to friends without driving friends into enemy camp by annoying them too much.

Remember all those articles about Boehner taking revenge on those who’d opposed his Speakership? “Boehner Foes Get Gavels, Not Punishment,” and subtitled “The speaker’s allies are annoyed that GOP rebels are getting top subcommittee slots.”

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 19, 2015 12:41 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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When I seen that grown man cry like a sissy I knew the end was imminent. jethro klintin was the first step and boner was the klincher. fuk all of em, ded.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2015 7:23 PM

Boehner is just establishing a front line that he can offer up whenever he screws up on decisions. They will take the hits, get thrown under the bus as needed.

Does anybody still expect anything resembling good government? Giving them all cute pejorative nicknames is the most we are doing about the rats in charge of our country.

The farthest my political perimeter extends is to town politics, and I live in a small town.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2015 9:21 AM

I wonder about those "small town pols" too. They're trying a sheriff here for using illegals for work then losing their paperwork. Another mayor arrested for malfeasance.

It used to be once in a while some local went bad; now it seems more and more of the bunch have their hands in the till.

We shake the State legislature tree here and the pols fall out like over ripe fruit on ethics charges. Three of them in the past 6 months.

It seems that no one is satisfied with what they have. Greed is rampant fed by envy and pride.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2015 4:12 PM

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