{"id":2369,"date":"2015-10-08T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:56:00","slug":"how-can-you-not-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"How can you not laugh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So: The Republican caucus has the same problem in the House of Representatives as it has in the country <i>writ large<\/i>.  You can&#8217;t get nominated without the support of the crazies, and you can&#8217;t win the larger election if you have that crazy vibe.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/08\/politics\/house-speaker-republican-vote-mccarthy-webster-chaffetz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McCarthy drops out of House speaker race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race to succeed Speaker John Boehner, a shocking move that throws the House into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>An influential group of conservatives endorsed a long-shot candidate, Rep. Daniel Webster, on Wednesday, placing McCarthy&#8217;s ability to win the House floor vote later this month in doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How will they elect a President when they can&#8217;t even nominate a Speaker?<\/p>\n<p>The only Republican with a prayer of winning next year is the one who reads out the loonies.  It looked for a while as though Jeb Bush might be the one who could do that, but he clearly lacks the wherewithal; that&#8217;s too bad because, in spite of a lot of baggage, he is the only one of the bunch with presidential presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: The Republican caucus has the same problem in the House of Representatives as it has in the country writ large. You can&#8217;t get nominated without the support of the crazies, and you can&#8217;t win the larger election if you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}