Discussion: Conservative Texas Rep. Flores To Run For House Speaker In Ryan's Absence

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Recipe.For.Disaster

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The “Speaker” election is beginning to mirror the Republican “Presidential” contest, with a Clown Car of Crazies all racing to the bottom to prove they hate everybody MORE than the last guy, and thus are “More Pure”.

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Oh, but it gets better.

He’s an O’lman. He has been CEO of an O’l exploration companies, and CFO of two others. And best of all, he represents Waco and its environs: He is a Waco Whacko.

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Can non-Texans introduce Secession Declarations for them?

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Flores is the guy who voted against aid for Sandy victims, then hypocritically tried to get aid for his district when a local company accidentally blew up its own warehouse/factory due to negligence and lack of state inspections.

So, really, the only surprise here is that Flores isn’t leading in the Speaker race.

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The fissures between the Freedom Caucus and the Republican Study Committee, as explained by Monty Python.

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Wow, these freedom caucus boys won’t give in an inch at all, will they? Are they all that stupid to know, that no matter what, ultimately they will lose?!

But let us not forget, this little klan can be totally ignored, only if the incoming speaker turns to the opposite body of congress and really negotiate like they are expected to.

Wonder if McMorris or Blackmon will take a stab at the house speaker contest or are the GoP boys controlling that too?!

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where is the car for these clowns? Oh, I forgot: 1st Chaffetz gets to drive it, followed by Gowdy, followed by LOOIE THE HOWLER MONKEY, followed by Ted YOHO THE YAAAHOO, etc., ad infinitum! I forgot Marsha Blackburn - I wonder if she’d forgive me?

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My asparagus is rejecting your aspersions! Why not Louie for Speaker? Just think of the entertainment value.

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“I don’t want to share private conversations,
but he was still a ‘no’ as of yesterday when I spoke to him,” Flores said.

Not a lifeboat on the entire ship and Flores wants to be made Captain.

jw1

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Louie G. doesn’t trigger laughter as much as nausea …

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And become second in line to the presidency.

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Re: “Conservative Texas Rep.” Is almost stuttering. What other kind of GOP Texas Rep. is there? In fact what other kind of GOP Rep. is there? The headline implies a spectrum of ideologies, when there is none.

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I do not know if you are trying to evoke laughter in any way whatsoever.

Because what you say is as serious as the Germans overrunning France in 1940, and as absolutely truthful. Moreover, the Klowns’ INTENT for all of this is to be at least as damaging. To the country. To the government of the United States

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When I saw Texas Rep. I was thinking it’d be Louis Gohmert.

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House Republicans need someone who “hasn’t been in leadership" before

What House Republicans need, Rep Flores exclaimed, is an know-nothing yahoo with no leadership experience.

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Hey Torquemada, whadda’ ya’ say?

I just got back from an Auto-de-fe

Auto-de-fe, what’s an Auto-de-fe?

It’s what you oughtn’t to do, but you do anyway!

And considering the context, I think crowning the new Speaker as head of the Inquisition is appropriate.

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In its search for a replacement speaker, the Republican party is having to search in the deepest, darkest, smelliest, gassiest and moldiest recesses of its collective rectal cavity.

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Is it really necessary to identify him as “conservative”? Isn’t that a given? Or, is that to differentiate him from the ultra-conservatives, insanely-conservatives, and the psychopathically-conservatives?

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I have an idea.

Let the majority rule.

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