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Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:04 PM Oct 2015

Nancy Pelosi's prescient words on the day John Boehner announced his exit.

"This all comes down to the fact that the Republicans in Congress, if you take some of the issues we talked about, are anti-governance—not government. [...] The degree of government has been the debate in our country for a couple hundred years. How much government? How much federal, how much local and state? So that's a legitimate place of where you are on the spectrum. But anti-governance—shut it down and celebrate—that is unacceptable. And President Washington, as he was leaving office, cautioned against political parties of which were at war with their own government. And that's really what we're seeing evidence of now—a political party at war with its own government."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/25/1424849/-Pelosi-The-GOP-is-a-political-party-at-war-with-its-own-government

How can a party that's been overrun by anti-governance fanatics actually govern?

If Republicans can't elect a House leader, how can Americans trust them to govern?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1429385/-If-Republicans-can-t-elect-a-House-leader-how-can-Americans-trust-them-to-govern

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