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Extraordinary, and extraordinarily disturbing, news out of Washington, D.C., this morning. Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is resigning from Congress by the end of October. His departure allegedly is voluntarily, but clearly he was driven out by his party’s Taliban Caucus, which believes that shutting down the government, an act of extortion bordering on civic suicide, is preferable to waiting to win control of the government through an election.
We are heading for the most serious Constitutional crisis in American history. We may not wind up in End Times, but we’re sure headed for Banana Republic Times.