Ansible Just Hangs

I had everything for the most part working the way I wanted. And then, I have not clue how this happened; none of my Ansible playbooks will connect to remote systems (It Just Hangs). I can SSH into them fine from command line, with any account.
Below is a Ansible Ping test. My localhost is fine, and playbooks will execute. but, not with my remote systems.
I've gone as far as removing all accounts, creating new keys, and reinstalling Ansible

ansible.cfg, is currently at default settings (which is nothing enabled), and I have cleared everything in ~/.ansible

**Remote System** 

[root@SELC01 ~]# ansible -vvv servers -m ping -u root --ask-pass -K
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
SSH password: 
SUDO password[defaults to SSH password]: 
META: ran handlers
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/system /ping.py
<10.6.16.106> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<10.6.16.106> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d12 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/roo/.ansible/cp/13665ce0cd 10.6.16.106 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo ~ && sleep 0'"'"''


**LocalHost**

[root@SELC01 ~]# ansible -vvv localhost -m ping -u root --ask-pass -K
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
SSH password: 
SUDO password[defaults to SSH password]: 
META: ran handlers
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/ping.py
<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~ && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823 `" ) && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> PUT /tmp/tmpklwEPM TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823/ping.py
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823/ping.py && sleep 0'
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python2 /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823/ping.py; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1496147239.75-82726750768823/" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
localhost | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "invocation": {
    "module_args": {
        "data": null
    }

thank you for your help.