Put June 22 down as the date the GOP died.

[lpbk2713]

I'm watching the eulogies on the floor of the House right now on C-SPAN.

[malaise]

1. Well it's also the day the longest serving ReTHUG Speaker of the House

showed up for his prison sentence - Ryan runs from the House and Hastert runs into prison

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Hastert goes to the can, Ryan gets his handed to him.

A genuine old-fashioned Twofer!

[malaise]

5. Perfect

[Wednesdays]

11. A Threefer, with tRump imploding

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. He's been shoved aside for real news.

[chillfactor]

2. Loving every minute of this sit-in.....

Ryan must be shi**ing in his pants.

[lpbk2713]

3. I really do believe ...

Kaopectate is being delivered by the case to the rethuglican Cloak Room.

[LonePirate]

6. Ryan would never have accepted the position if he could have foreseen future events.

He probably thought Jeb would be the nominee against a weak Hillary. He thought there would be a united GOP front against cowardly Dems in disarray with no national tragedies compelling America to seek action. Oh how wrong he was at predicting the future!

[lunatica]

8. karma

Can you think of anyone who deserves an unruly House more? He always does really well until he has to deal with anyone outside his little, itty, bitty bubble.

[orwell]

7. I guess both parties...

...aren't the same?

Who would have guessed it...

[truebluegreen]

10. This isn't an economic or national security issue

(except to gun manufacturers) where that is all to often the case.

[Wounded Bear]

9. It's actually the Repubs worst nightmare....

They have been accusing Dems for years of "voting in lockstep" and being some kind of unified bloc of intolerance and party line fanatics, when it has been the Repubs that have been getting 90+% voting support among members on basically anything proposed.

Now they are fractured, with an ignorant, unqualified asshole running for Pres under their auspices (Trump is the face of their party now) and the Dems are finally, actually coming together on some issues that have sweeping support among the voting public. General gun safety legislation has been runnning above 60% approval around the country, with some proposals getting 80+% approval. If there is a shred of democracy left in this country, the repubs should be going down on this issue.

[Freddie]

13. And one of the reasons for their voting in lockstep

Just started his prison sentence for molesting children.
Poetic justice.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Yeah, the Hastert Rule...

is one of the worst rules placed on the House in memory.

[Freddie]

17. Immediately eliminates any possibility of compromise

And they wonder why the parties have become so polarized. (More correctly, why THEY have.)

[struggle4progress]

14. Wreck At Altoona

[KG]

15. as if.