dysfunction junction

[callmeslick]

actually, I want not so much to 'save the GOP' but some semblance of a functional second party. Right now, In Delaware, we have one-party rule, thanks to a Tea Party hijack of the state GOP. It always makes me uneasy when one party(in our case, the Dems) doesn't have to work to win elections.
Still, on the topic, I heard an option last night which I'd never considered. Sit down for this one, Pud. Apparently, while Boehner has agreed to stick around for a few extra weeks as both a Congressman and Speaker(note, you lose a GOP vote when he departs), he claims that he will not do so for long. Without an elected Speaker, you can't convene the House, and for all intents, Congress is shut down(I bet they'll somehow keep getting paid). Most in the House don't wish it to get to that, but the growing sense is that there are far more entrenched 'traditional' Republcans than there are 'Tea Party' hardliners. Further, apparently there are enough of them willing to take the risk in the primaries to seek out a compromise Speakership with the Dems. That would NOT mean Pelosi as Speaker, but WOULD likely entail a power sharing arrangement around committee chairs, the whole nine yards. It would, as is this whole Speakership debacle, be unprecedented, uncharted waters. As a political wonk, this is all great fun to watch. This is History happening before your eyes.......either way, we'll all pay the price for whatever clusterfuck emerges, so you may as well enjoy the spectacle.

[Pudfark]

I would rate yer remarks as fair.....and throw this little ditty in the kitty?
Funny to me that they wouldn't shut down Obama by shutting down the government...but, they would for themselves.....that's a tell, not a nice one. However, it proves what the conservatives have been saying, whether you like it or not....."RINO"?

[callmeslick]

you might be missing this in reading what I wrote, Pud, but the same folks who rose up and resisted shutting down the govt over Planned Parenthood or the ACA clearly will NOT wish to shut it down over a 40 member minority in their caucus causing trouble for the rest(who again is 'in name only' when they want to do in the party?). That is why you might just wake up in a few weeks to a Moderate Speaker and evenly appointed committees with a mix of GOP and Dem chairs until further notice.

[Pudfark]

That could be? I personally think that Gowdy is very well qualified. However, the truth of Benghazi is his current focus and should remain so.
I'm sorta looking into Issa now......