NEW HOUSE MEMBERS REFERRED TO AS “LITTLE BOYS CLUB” & TROUBLEMAKERS

The anticipated new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)

 

John Boehner is leaving as Speaker to maintain a level of sanity.

 

Have any of you readers ever heard of the latest group of House members being referred to as the “Brat Pack”?

 

This group of around 37 ultra-conservative members of the House are today trying to claim that they drove John Boehner out of his role as House Speaker.  One Washington publication referred to these 37 members as the ones that “…came to Washington not to govern but to fight. But what does one make of a little boys’ club with nothing to show for themselves other than a record of disruption and a talent for tantrums?”

 

One of the more sane Republicans on the Hill has said “These are the guys who couldn’t get a prom date.  They’d rather rape and pillage than do the hard work. They can’t get to first base much less hit a home run.”

 

This was just one of the more sane members of congress that still believes in today’s uncommon concept of using political “compromise” to get some things done for the American people.  These are also some House members that roll their eyes when these know-nothings  try to lecture them about the Constitution as they rant about the nation’s debt.

 

BTW, the definition of the nation’s debt is the accumulation of the difference every year between the budget and what the nation actually spends, which is the nation’s deficit.  I doubt that these new House members could tell you what the difference is between the nation’s debt and the deficit. 

 

Anyway, in order to get the debt they are complaining about decreased, one must start by staying on budget every year as the nation pays down the debt. 

Well, these new brash novices have apparently not noticed that even under Speaker Boehner, $2.4 trillion has been cut from the nation’s deficit.  That mostly came from the spending side, and it was all accomplished without raising taxes.

 

But these 37 newbies which call themselves the “Freedom Caucus” have several less-charitable nicknames like being called the Brat Pack.  They are also referred to as the, “Dog that caught the car, but doesn’t know what to do with it…..?”

 

The reality about Speaker Boehner’s leaving is that he probably could have won his own re-election, but trying to deal with this group of losers every day, why should he bother running again?

 

Boehner knows how bad the shutting down of the government in going after Obamacare was for the Republican Party in 2013.  But he also knows this new Freedom Caucus wants to shut it down again over de-funding Planned Parenthood.  An organization that 62% of the American public supports.

 

Now let’s see.  If 62% of the nation likes Planned Parenthood, and the nation’s approval rating of the US Congress is hovering at around 10%, just how well does shutting down the government sound today?  Boehner knows all this, and it’s got to also be one of the reasons that Boehner is not only quitting as the Speaker of the House, he is also leaving as a member of congress.

 

So, what about the person that is expected to take over as the House Speaker?

 

Well, Boehner’s successor was almost certainly going to be the current Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).  However, McCarthy has continued to have some serious “foot-in-mouth” issues.  McCarthy’s latest gaffe, where he made it clear that the Benghazi select committee was actually developed, just to lower Hillary’s poll numbers, perhaps McCarthy will be given a 2^nd look by the party. 

 

Remember, the House Speaker is the third in line to the presidency....but I digress...... 

 

 

Now, Speaker Boehner does like the new Majority Leader, but McCarthy is also one of those self-declared “young guns” of the House.  McCarthy has voted along with the other “young guns” such as House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan and the Freedom Caucus member Dave Brat (R-VA) who had defeated former representative and Majority Leader, Eric Cantor.

 

But now, Boehner has apparently seen the writing on the wall and he probably said, “OK, I’ve done all I can here and I don’t need to continue hitting my head against the wall as the House Speaker of a bunch of juveniles.”

 

Even the one lone woman in the GOP House leadership, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), had considered running for the #2 position of Majority Leader.  She had a very good chance to win, but she also probably decided that it’s a thank-less job that wasn’t worth it.  She has since announced that she will not run.  She’s currently in the #4 House position, which is less of a bulls-eye than the #2 position.

 

This latest group of new members that is causing all the ruckus got their jobs due to their highly gerrymandered districts.  So to get rid of them, until the districts are probably reconfigured in 2020, they will be with us unless the voters decide they are the “bad news boys” they are today.

 

Hopefully, these conservative voters will realize their mistakes.

 

But based on the political history of the Red states in America, I wouldn’t put any bets on any major changes in the House for the next 2 or 3 elections.

 

Copyright G.Ater 2015