I must admit that I didn’t see this coming, but who can blame him?
Speaker John Boehner plans to resign from Congress in late October, he told member of his conference Friday morning in a closed door meeting, according to multiple reports emerging from the meeting room.
Boehner is second in line to the presidency, after Vice President Joe Biden. He was first elected to Congress in 1990. He has served as speaker since Republicans took control of the House in 2011.
Boehner was meeting with his conference to discuss plans to avert a government shutdown, looming next week. The speaker was under enormous pressure to keep the government open and satisfy conservative members of the conference who were refusing to vote for any bill that would provide funds for Planned Parenthood.
The odds have just increased that there will be another government shutdown. Ted Cruz will insist.
It may be time to revive my America Held Hostage series and its image:
Boner’s pulling out of Congress has given me an earworm. This one’s for the Cryin’ Speaker:
