John Boehner, all you need to do is pull together your 200+ GOP supporters, combine them with 40 Democrats, and enact legislation to serve the national interest. Please, John, think long-term, beyond your imminent retirement!

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COMMENTS: 
*  You mean work with Democrats like Reagan did? The Tea Party would go berserk.
*  If the House is to get anything done, either everything has to be approved by 10% of the hardest-right nuts in the membership, or the Speaker takes a different approach: stiff-arm the nuts and be the Speaker of the House, not the Hostage of the TeaLoons. It isn't likely that the Democrats will find much common ground with idiots like the Freedom Caucus, but there is certainly common ground with the rest of the GOP side - and a combination of the saner Republicans and a few Democrats can actually get somewhere. In this House, yes, if the Republican leadership wants to accomplish anything, they probably have to work with Democrats. That's what's supposed to happen, no?
*  It's past time to call crazy what it is, or close to it anyway. More accurately Republicans are batspit insane. They courted the faux religious loons, then woke up married to them.  They can't govern themselves, find themselves in total disarray, can't find a leader, purport to govern the country. It doesn't get much more nuts than that.
*  Boehner could but probably won't do what is best for America, I figure he will just go on his merry way and let the crazy conservatives destroy the country with their outrageous extreme right agenda!
*  Vote democrat in the coming election and maybe we won't have right wing idiots in control of our destiny!!!
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Boehner should seize his chance for the nation
By Colbert I. King, October 9, 2015

If House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wasn’t convinced before, he now knows to a 100 percent degree of certainty that the extreme right wing of the Republican caucus would burn down the U.S. Capitol before they would let him keep the gavel in his hands. They are joined by a nationwide crowd of prominent conservatives, including GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who cheered Boehner’s announcement of his resignation from Congress.

All conclusive proof that there’s nothing that Boehner can do, even if he was inclined to try, to get back in the far right’s good graces.

But there is something Boehner can do to reclaim the power and prestige of his office: take control of the House’s agenda and direct the legislative process as the head of majority party.

He can do that by cobbling together his 200 plus supporters in the GOP caucus members with 40 big-picture Democrats to enact legislation that serves the national interest, not the cuckoo aims of an extremist, ideological minority.

The crazies will find that they are in no position to challenge or obstruct a speaker-led majority.

Does that mean that Boehner, in order to retrieve that which he lost by catering to the tea party — his role as presiding officer of the House — must adopt a Democratic agenda? Not at all.

It will, however, require Boehner and his leadership team to consult the Democratic minority leaders on legislative items that both agree require action by year’s end.

The list shouldn’t be long. Among the must-do items: the highway trust fund; the debt ceiling; a water infrastructure bill; the Export-Import Bank; 2016 spending bills.

As long as House Republicans remain in turmoil over new leadership, Boehner, working with his core Republican supporters and nationally-minded Democrats, has a chance to advance the nation’s agenda, as well as burnish his reputation as a speaker who got things done.
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