Peter King: Boehner Resignation = "the Crazies Have Taken Over the GOP"

New York Republican Peter King is not what most would consider a moderate, but in today's utterly insane Republican Party, King actually looks more and more sane in relative terms.  With John Boehner's sudden announcement that he will resign as Speaker of the House and from Congress entirely by the end of October, King has lamented that it is clear that "the crazies" have taken over the GOP.  While I have never liked Boehner - who I see as a largely spineless man - his main role has been to try to rein in the utterly insane in the House GOP.  With him gone, what type of utter lunatic will the swamp fever ridden Christofascit/Tea Party controlled political whores try to put in Boehner's place.  Here are highlights from Politico:

House Speaker John Boehner's sudden resignation Friday "signals that the crazies have taken over the party," New York Republican Peter King said Friday.

“I think it signals the crazies have taken over the party, taken over to the party that you can remove a speaker of the House who’s second in line to be president, a constitutional officer in the middle of his term with no allegations of impropriety, a person who’s honest and doing his job. This has never happened before in our country," King said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on Friday afternoon. "He could have stayed on.”

“There was actually, I thought, like a hush in the room for a few seconds where no one — people like looked at each other — they couldn’t believe it. And then he read the prayer of St. Francis, which was very moving," King said of the moment when Boehner told fellow lawmakers that he was leaving office. 

"I’m not a psychologist but I think John probably pretty much decided that the more he did, the more friction would be caused, and that he probably thought it was best for him to leave soon anyway, which I think is wrong," he said. "But having the pope here yesterday just sort of put John in the frame of mind [that] it’s time to leave."

Boehner's decision to resign is "like throwing raw meat" to more extreme factions of the caucus who are trying to "hijack and blackmail the party," King said. "They’re not going to see it as a gesture of peace, they’re going to just look for more."

“I think whoever runs for speaker should make it clear that he’s not going to give in to these people. We’re not going to appease them," he concluded. "The time for appeasement is over.”

GOP's Peter King to Marco Rubio: "Stay home"

It is always entertaining to watch Republicans trash each other.  While I usually view GOP. Congressman Peter King a as a pompous and often bigoted blowhard, it is fun to see him lay into Marco Rubio and tell Rubio to "stay home" and away from New York State.  King is still big time pissed off at members of the Congressional GOP who voted against aid to New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy's devastation last year.  King points to the hypocrisy of Rubio who comes from a state that has received large amounts of federal aid after hurricanes.  Meanwhile, New York and New Jersey were snubbed even though they are net exporters of tax dollars.  Here are highlights from Politico:

Three months after some of his fellow Republicans voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy victims, New York Rep. Peter King is still furious, saying “nobody gave a damn” that there were “people close to dying in my district” and again calling out Florida Sen. Marco Rubio by name.

“My relationship with Congress will never be the same again,” the Long Island lawmaker said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They made us wait 90 to 100 days to give the most basic human aid. It was absolutely disgraceful. When I see these Republicans slapping each other on the back, all the camaraderie, ‘Hey, we’re great friends.’ All I know is that there were people close to dying in my district and nobody gave a damn. That’s not something I’m not going to forget.”

“Guys like Marco Rubio in Florida and all the money your people have gotten in Florida over the years from every hurricane that comes along and this guy has the nerve to vote against money from New York, and they come up here and try to raise money,” King said. “He can forget it.”

King previously attacked Rubio for having “the balls” to raise money on Wall Street after voting against the Sandy bill.

“I made it clear any of those people — people who voted and postured against money coming to New York and New Jersey and then wants to come up here and take money out of our pockets, forget it,” the congressman added. “They can stay home.”

On Jan. 1, after a majority of Republicans voted against a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner cancelled a vote on a Sandy aid package. An apoplectic King made the television rounds, instructing New Yorkers and New Jerseyeans to stop all donations to House Republicans. Many Republicans, including Rubio, instead supported a slimmed-down $24 billion package. A $50 billion package eventually passed the House later that month.

Asked directly by host Joe Scarborough whether he could “forgive and forget,” King said: “No, I won’t. And I never will.”

Let's hope big GOP donors from New York and New Jersey follow King's advice.