Better Off Without Leaders Like These [Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan]

The Boston Herald ^ | 10/9/15 | Howie Carr 

Paul Ryan? Are you kidding me? Paul Ryan ... more like Paul Ryan-o, as in RINO. Republican in Name Only.

All these fools were running around Capitol Hill yesterday like Chicken Littles, elbowing one another out of the way to get to their Fox liveshots. The sky is falling, the sky is falling! U.S. Rep. Peter King, RINO-NY, actually said yesterday, “People are crying.”
Get a grip, pal. There are worse things than having nobody at the top. Having Barack Obama at the top comes immediately to mind.
Last week, John Boehner decided to spend more time with his bartender. So his majority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy stepped up. The House is like the Elks Club — when the boss leaves, all the exalted grand pooh-bahs move up one slot.
McCarthy is from Bakersfield, Calif., but he’s no Merle Haggard, not by a long shot. Mark Levin described him as “Eric Cantor — minus 10 IQ points.”
If the rumors on the Internet since last January are true, Levin was generous. The story is that he was playing doctor with the shades drawn with a congresswoman. And that he had dumped her, which was why she hissed to a reporter last week, “I’m apparently not high on his priority list.”
Welcome back to high school.
Do you recall what brought Newt Gingrich down? Touching everything but the third rail. Ditto his successor for 48 hours or so, Bob Livingston. And the following Republican speaker, Dennis Hastert.
These national GOP speakers are as dirty as our own state Democratic speakers.
And yet … somehow Kevin McCarthy apparently thought that no one would notice that he was, ahem, overly affectionate with the nice young lady who describes herself “as a mom, Christian and nurse, I am pro-family.”
And now it’s the turn of Paul RINO. He was described last night by National Review as “the undisputed intellectual leader” of House Republicans, which is like being an admiral in the Swiss Navy.
I wonder. Until last night, RINO didn’t want the job. He’s been around the block. He knows what happens when you become speaker. It’s like becoming capo of a crime family — there’s a target painted on your back.
Why didn’t Rep. RINO want to run for speaker in the first place? Does he know something the rest of us don’t — yet?
I know a guy, he used to be in the Mob. He was in the gangster equivalent of human resources. His specialty was severance, if you get my drift. He was so good at what he did that after a while, his associates were reluctant to even climb into the front seat of his car beside him.
“I always wondered about them if they wouldn’t get in the car with me,” he mused. “It made me suspicious. Had they done something I didn’t know about? It always made me wonder. And you know, I didn’t have to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.”
So the next speaker may be Paul RINO. Good Lord. Who’s going to be the GOP candidate for president — Carly FioRINO?