{"id":16638,"date":"2015-10-15T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16638"},"modified":"2015-10-15T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:02:35","slug":"bring-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/bring-in-the-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring In The Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filling Boehner's shoes, or rather his shot glass, is going to be difficult because of the Gang of 40 hanging around the Republican Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Clown-Alley\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans are desperate for a leader in the House and until Paul Ryan sacrifices his personal political ambitions for the good of an ungrateful party, they’ve desperately proposed some rather outrageous alternatives to lead their fractured caucus into an election year.<\/p>\n

Here are five of the most ridiculous candidates to replace an outgoing John Boehner as speaker of the House floated by some Republicans:<\/p>\n

Dick Cheney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Arkansas freshman Republican Senator Tom Cotton, comes the suggestion of Dick Cheney as the gavel-wielding leader of an unruly GOP House conference.<\/p>\n

Calling him “a man of the House,” Cotton told<\/a> Politico that at “these are trying times for our nation. It’s important to have a steady hand on the helm during times like this.”<\/p>\n

I think experience really counts in a matter like this,” Cotton continued. I think House leadership experience really matters. And as you know the speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House: So therefore, Vice President Cheney for speaker.”<\/p>\n

A U.S. News and World Report op-ed<\/a> argued, “no more Mr. Nice Guy for speaker of the House. It’s time to bring back Dick Cheney.”<\/p>\n

“Instead of another man with a big, mushy heart, how about a man whose critics wonder whether he has a heart at all,” the author argued in favor of Cheney for speaker. “Someone who commands respect and fear, is brilliant and decisive, who has literally lived without a pulse and now makes due with a donated heart.”<\/p>\n

“Let Lord Vader’s dark force make a dent in Washington’s leadership black hole,” she concluded.<\/p>\n

This is just the first of the five outrageous clowns!  Read the list of clowns being floated for the Speaker's chair in <\/span>Alternet <\/span><\/a><\/strong>!  Republicans never cease to amaze me.  Why would they consider, even in jest, a war criminal, albeit, yet to be convicted war criminal?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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