"Jesus H. Christ in a Fiat, my son, these people crazy. Get out while you can."

[kpete]

​Mother of mercy, Papa Francesco gets results.​
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38246/john-boehner-the-inmates-running-asylum/

Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, will resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, throwing Congress into chaos as it tries to avert a government shutdown. Mr. Boehner made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning. The Ohio representative struggled from almost the moment he took the speaker's gavel in 2011 to manage the challenges of divided government and to hold together his fractious and increasingly conservative Republican members.

​Way I figure it is this. In their private chat yesterday, Boehner explained to the pope the problems he was having with the flying monkey caucus, and Papa Francesco who, after all, heads a bureaucracy with a long history as a seething cauldron of ambition, scandal, murder and betrayal, as well as a unique tradition of crazy institutional proceedings (See: Cadaver Synod), listened to Boehner's plight and said, mildly, "Jesus H. Christ in a Fiat, my son, these people crazy. Get out while you can." That's the way I'm going to figure it, anyway.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38246/john-boehner-the-inmates-running-asylum/

[KentuckyWoman]

1. Rec only because

I love the phrase "flying monkey circus".

That's a keeper.

[hedda_foil]

10. Mike Malloy called them the flying monkey right on his show back in the late 90's.

Malone was Chicago's top rated night time show on WLS, a clear channel, 50,000 watt Megastation that could be heard from the East Coast to the Rockies. They booted him nevertheless and started instituting far right talk immediately thereafter. I'm pretty sure he originated the phrase.

[BelgianMadCow]

15. MM and the flying monkey right + DU

are what kept me sane those days.

[Fumesucker]

2. Do whatever steps you want if

You have cleared them with the Pontiff

[drthais]

3. bow your head with great respect and....

genuflect genuflect genuflect

[struggle4progress]

8. +

[lindysalsagal]

13. A classic!

From a simpler time....

[dflprincess]

4. Given the way Boehner was sobbing during the Pope's speech

I assumed that the Pope had refused him absolution and Boehner realized he needed to spend the rest of his life doing penance.

"Get in line in that processional; step into that small confessional,
There the guy who's got religion will tell you if your sin's original.
If it is try playing it safer.."

(more of "The Vatican Rag&quot

[Hugin]

5. These guys are going to fool around and make CaliforniaPeggy cuss again.

And you know what happens every time CaliforniaPeggy swears...

An Angel loses it's hearing!

We wouldn't want that, now would we?

[dae]

6. LMBO!

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Best post of the week.

[hifiguy]

18. DUzy!

[dae]

7. I was thinking the same thing about

Boehner and the Pope but you were on a much higher plane than I; henceforth master, call me "grasshopper".

[cui bono]

9. Wait a sec... this isn't an OP about hillaryclintonsupporters.com???

So disappointed.

Okay, not that disappointed since Charlie Pierce is a close second to the posts on Haterville.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. I think this cartoon sums it up

Who could possibly want this job?

[hifiguy]

19. I can't imagine.

I'd be sloshed half the time too if I had to deal with the feces-throwers that make up the House repigs.

[lindysalsagal]

14. His ego was satisfied. That ended his political ambition.

He knew this was the zenith of his ego satisfaction and next week he'd go back to constant failures. There was nothing to stay for. He'll be on the speaking circuit, lots of trustee boards, and wanna-be's will ask for his help. That will be far more satisfying than continuing the kabuki theater called the GOP.

[flamingdem]

16. in a Fiat

[lunatica]

17. He's getting even for all the shit he's created which he won't have to deal with

Boner is a Class A Narcissist. Sure he has a tenderness which is evident by the fact that he cries like a baby, but his tenderness is only about himself. He feels victimized because he'd done everything he can to destroy Obama and his people just simply don't like him. I get why he cries. It would hurt my feelings too if I was him.

He isn't a member of the teabaggeratti but he's kissed their asses until they get hickeys on their gluteous maximuses, or is that maximi?, and still, no matter how many self pitying tears he sheds they just don't like him.

So he's saying "fuck you" to them and he's not gonna do their bidding anymore. Trouble is, everyone is delighted that he's leaving. The last laugh isn't his.

LOL!

[hifiguy]

20. Charlie deserves a Pulitzer.

He is one of our great truth tellers. Viz:

"Welcome to the monkeyhouse, America. The prion disease afflicting the Republican party finally has devoured the last vestiges of the Republican party's higher functions. I had as many problems with Boehner as Speaker as anyone did, but, dammit, he at least believed that the government should keep running. And, as much as the Times wants to believe it, this has nothing to do with the "challenges of divided government," and everything to do with the fact that the modern Republican party, especially in the House of Representatives, is completely demented."