Friday Open Thread [10.9.2015]

Filed in National by on October 9, 2015

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) raised $12.2 million in the third quarter, Reuters reports.

In contrast, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) “took in just $6 million for his presidential campaign from July to the end of September, a major drop to his fund-raising pace over a summer in which two Republican rivals dropped out because they lacked enough money to continue,” the New York Times reports.

Ted Cruz will be your Republican nominee.

And that’s all I got today, because I have a funeral to attend. Perhaps my colleagues can add something about the GOP in total disarray and chaos. The parties have switched places. It used to be that the Democrats were like herding cats and undisciplined, in a permanent state of total chaos and revolution; while the GOP had military precision, and their next in line always won the presidential nomination or leadership contest.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    This is good news for Trumps sagging poll numbers:

    “Mexican lord Joaquín Guzmán is offering a $100 million bounty for anyone who can bring him Donald Trump, dead or alive. Known as El Chapo (The Shorty) because of his small stature, is infamous for his multiple prison breaks and involvement in the Mexican cartel.”

  2. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    Speakus Interuptus

    McCarthy had to withdraw from Speakership considerations because of an affair – because of course he had an affair, he is a “family values” conservative after all.

  3. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    One last Bipartisan HURRAH!! for Carney?

    Republicans may be forced to solicit Democratic help to break their Speaker stalemate, Rep. Charlie Dent (R) said Thursday.

    “We may need a bipartisan coalition to elect our next Speaker,” Dent told reporters after Thursday’s closed-door GOP meeting. “That’s a very real possibility right now, and I think anybody who’s honest about this knows it. They may not want to talk about it, but they know it.”

    The GOP is a raging dumpster fire right now. Will Democrats help put it out and get to 218 votes? NO – says Pelosi.

    The office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Republicans are on their own to fill Boehner’s spot.

    “It’s up to House Republicans to choose the next Speaker,” spokesman Drew Hammill said.

    Pelosi, for her part, predicted the Republicans will eventually locate their leader.

    “It’s a great job. It has great opportunity, and I’m sure they’ll find somebody who is capable of accepting the honor,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol, according to her office.

  4. bamboozer says:
    October 9, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    So, Louie Gohmert here they come????

  5. Liberal Elite says:
    October 10, 2015 at 10:11 am

    ““It’s a great job. It has great opportunity, and I’m sure they’ll find somebody who is capable of accepting the honor,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol, according to her office.”

    Honor???

    It’s like watching Lord of the Flies.

    Where are we going to get honor from that?

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