I'll weigh in, FANTASTIC. He's been the ballast to progress, the ball
and chain tying us to obsolete, old white, greed favoring ways.
Threatening to shut down the government, not working with Dems on
important issues of our time, etc., etc., shameful. That he scurries out
of the public eye just in time for avoiding the excoriation he should
receive is fitting for him. To watch him behind the Pope for over an
hour, and hear such beautiful notions and leadership from Francis--and
seeing Boehner the man most responsible for the CHASM between
where we are and where we should be--was brutal. Mr. Boehner, take your
exit immediately and with shame.
Other thoughts on his party and resignation from NYT comments, some more harsh, some more nuanced:
Other thoughts on his party and resignation from NYT comments, some more harsh, some more nuanced:
Robert Lee (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-president-obama-summit.html?_r=1)
Toronto 15 hours ago
Bad week for the GOP. With the Pope speaking
out for refugees, global warming and sharing the wealth, and China
coming around on carbon emissions, what's left of their sorry platform?
frankly 32
by the sea 22 minutes ago
Maybe the pope touched his heart, and he
realized that as captain of the lost boys on Republican Island, he was
not engaged in the good fight but the fight against goodness -- with
bleak prospects for a favorable judgment from the past, the future, or
the Catholic God that Francis embodies. I hope Boehner will next avail
himself of two of the church's finest institutions: confession and
repentance. Chalk another plus up for the Francis Effect.
Christine McMorrow
Waltham, MA, 02452 2 hours ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I have no
doubt that the papal visit did something to him, as he was weepy all day
yesterday. While I doubt it was the final trigger--I think his mind
was already made up--I think perhaps the pope's exhortation to stop
congressional divisions and enmity really moved him.
That said, Mr. Boehner was an abysmal speaker. He presided over the most contentious, polarizing, do-nothing Congress in likely US history. His feckless betrayal of President Obama over the grand bargain in 2011 enraged me. I think he always tended to play one side against the other in order to save his own reputation.
Well, it didn't work. He fabricated, he prevaricated, he refused to rein in the loony Tea Party (resulting in even more of them being elected the year after) and he continually insulted the president, perhaps to show his most rabid members he could be "tough."
For me it didn't work, and he is as much responsible for the nonstop political impasses as the Tea Party crowd itself. I place 50% of the blame on his shoulders. If he knew he wasn't up to the job, he should have resigned several years ago.
That said, Mr. Boehner was an abysmal speaker. He presided over the most contentious, polarizing, do-nothing Congress in likely US history. His feckless betrayal of President Obama over the grand bargain in 2011 enraged me. I think he always tended to play one side against the other in order to save his own reputation.
Well, it didn't work. He fabricated, he prevaricated, he refused to rein in the loony Tea Party (resulting in even more of them being elected the year after) and he continually insulted the president, perhaps to show his most rabid members he could be "tough."
For me it didn't work, and he is as much responsible for the nonstop political impasses as the Tea Party crowd itself. I place 50% of the blame on his shoulders. If he knew he wasn't up to the job, he should have resigned several years ago.