The scramble is on for who's going to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House, and one man has emerged as the clear frontrunner: California congressman Kevin McCarthy.

McCarthy is currently the House Majority Leader and thus the second ranking Republican in Congress after Boehner - he is very much part of the GOP establishment.

He also has deep ties to the Tea Party movement, which could help him unify a very, very divided party.

But even if McCarthy does become the next Speaker of the House, that doesn't mean Congress is suddenly going to start governing the country again -- far from it.

If McCarthy becomes Speaker, that'll just mean more of the same Republican lies and obstruction, especially when it comes to things like the Benghazi investigation, which McCarthy himself now admits was always about sabotaging Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Amazing, right?

The guy who now wants to be two heartbeats away from the presidency admits to wasting millions of taxpayer dollars in a purely political conspiracy to bring down a former Secretary of State.

That alone should disqualify Kevin McCarthy from being the next Speaker of the House.

But here's the thing, the Benghazi conspiracy is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Kevin McCarthy.

Read more here.

-Thom

  

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Ben & Jerry on "People In, Corporations Out" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Community Square  

 "Book Discussion on The Wikileaks Files"  

Wednesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Kevin McCarthy Admits Benghazi Was All About Doing Political Harm To Hillary Clinton" by Karoli.

Article: "Clinton campaign blasts McCarthy for Benghazi panel remarks" by Eliza Collins.

Article: "General Prohibition Against Using Official Resources for Campaign or Political Purposes" - House Ethics Manual.

Video: Secure Family TV Ad 2015 Savers.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren lobbying query leads Brookings Institution fellow to quit" by Reuters.

Article: "Shameless Carly Fiorina Knows the Truth Just Doesn't Matter Anymore" by Chez Pazienza.

Quote: "You've got a choice between honest Socialists on the Left, like Bernie Sanders, and lying conservatives on the Right." - Bobby Jindal (video).

Article: "Super PAC Contributions Can Be Considered Bribes: Judge" by Paul Blumenthal.

Petition: "We the People of Wisconsin Demand the Immediate Resignation of Governor Scott K. Walker".

Site: The Mic 92.1 - Madison's Progressive Talk.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Article: "How journalism helps lunacy become reality" by Larry Beinhart.

Article: "Associated Press Stops Calling Those Who Deny Climate Change 'Deniers'" by Lydia O'Connor.

Article: "Real Time with Bill Maher: Remember the Rubble: September 18, 2015" (with George Pataki).

Article: "Pope Francis met 'anti-gay' Kentucky clerk Kim Davis" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Harriet Sherwood in London and Calla Wahlquist.

Article: "Planned Parenthood president grilled at House hearing" by Tom LoBianco.

Article: "Congressman uses misleading graph to smear Planned Parenthood" by Zachary Roth.

Article: "Planned Parenthood Head Shuts Down GOP Chair Over Abortion Chart (VIDEO)" by Sara Jerde.

Article: "Lemony Snicket, the Author, and His Wife Donate $1 Million to Planned Parenthood" by Christine Hauser.

Article: "Bernie Sanders is coming to Boston" by Nik DeCosta-Klipa.

Article: "It's Al From's Democratic Party..the rest of us just live here. The takeover." by madfloridian.

Hour Two: Will Obama and Putin Find a Way To Compromise?
-Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation/Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives 

Article: "Obama and Putin Meet in New York, Agree on Nothing" by James Carden.

Video: Read: The Full Transcript of President Obama's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly 2015 by Polly Mosendz.

Video: Read: The Full Transcript of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly 2015 by Polly Mosendz

Article: "Putin and Obama clash over international relations theory" by Erik Voeten.

Article: "Did Putin upstage Obama at UN Syria summit?" by Laurence Peter.

Article: "Syria crisis: Russian air strikes against Assad enemies" by BBC.

Article: "A chilling handshake between Obama and Putin, while Syria disintegrates" by Jonathan Jones.

Article: "Petraeus on Putin: His provocations are designed to protect his interests" by Walter Pincus.

 

Article: "Bernie Sanders Makes Political History With Over a Million Contributions" by The Bern Report.

Case: "Helvering v. Davis", 1937. "The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way."

Book: Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All by Nancy J. Altman.

Article: "The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever" by Marty Kaplan.

Article: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Article: "Kevin McCarthy's comments about Benghazi should trouble Republicans" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Saudi official says Russia will fail to save Syria's Assad" by Oren Dorell.

Article: "Russian troops in Syria could end up helping Isis, report claims" by Julian Borger.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/30" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/29" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: 'We the People' NOT 'We the Corporations'
- Ben Cohen, Stamp Stampede   - Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's 

Article: "'We the People' Not 'We the Corporations'" by Ben Cohen.

Article: "Ben & Jerry Fire Up Crowd at Bernie Sanders Campaign Kickoff (Also, Free Ice Cream)" by Josh Feldman.

Article: "Sanders enlists Ben & Jerry's in fight against super-PACs" by Ben Kamisar.

 

Article: "Sanders Supporters Break Facebook" by The Willowbrook Curmudgeon.

Article: "Selfie Soldiers: Russia Checks in to Ukraine" by Vice News.

Article: "Debate Watch Parties (October 13)" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Carly Fiorina Stubbornly Stands By Inaccurate Description Of Planned Parenthood Video" by Casey Quinlan.

Article: "Mother Of Stillborn Child In Video Allows Carly Fiorina To Keep Lying About It" by Karoli.

Article: "What the Oath of Office Means to a Kentucky Clerk" by Noah Feldman.

Article: "The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here"" by Thom Hartmann, 2004.

Article: "60 Minutes' interview with Iran's president" by Steve Kroft.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET 

 

Boehner Out...Another Caucus Room Conspirator In? Adam Brandon of Freedomworks will give his view.

 

Plus, Investigative Journalist Dahr Jamail will explain how Free Speech Gets the Death Penalty

 

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