As Tony the (R)acist Tiger™ says of Scalise’s pronouncements:
They’re KKKreat!
jw1
No sheet, mon!
This is the Majority Leader position we are talking about, not in the succession list.
Amazing that they have people to make Kevin McCarthy look moderate.
If I understand the house rules, the Speaker is elected by a majority of the full house, while the other positions are elected by a majority of the majority party. King, McCarthy, and others of the non-tea-party “minority-of-the-majority” will, to prevent the collapse of government, accept coalition with Democrats.
This Congress sure reminds me of Italian parliamentary chaos. Maybe gerrymandering to make Texas safe for lunatics wasn’t such a good idea after all.
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Majority Leader is the stepping-stone to the Speaker position.
Cantor was in that position until he was defeated for re-election, and Scalise knows how to play the long game. He wants Majority Leader so he can be elected Speaker after the 2016 elections (or after the House Crazies force McCarthy out as Speaker because he is not “pure” enough.)
I half expect these lunatics to break into a loud chorus of “Uber Allies” each time they meet.
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SteveScleaze--------I’m already missing JB…
@littlegirlblue: “McCarthy is considered one of the dimmest bulbs of the many that currently sit in the House”
What is it in that Central Valley water? About my Representative (who is gerrymandered into my mountain home, where the water is clean and the woods on fire), Dough “Rice Subsidy Farmer” LaMalfa, one prominent elected Republican told me (when I expressed appreciation that LaMalfa laughs at my rice jokes):
“Good old Doug is a pretty nice guy all right. But you have to remember that it takes him an hour and a half to get through 60 Minutes.”
McClintock (the third of the three who cut funding for maintenance of your National Forests that they represent) is not stupid, just a cynical opportunist. He only drinks the bad groundwater occasionally: his real home is in the San Fernando Valley. Alas that his Roseville constituents drink the stupid water every day.
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The Repugs inreach effort continues.
It will only take one of these assholes to think that he is creating reality (ignorance, arrogance and stupidity) to throw the whole thing into even more of a tizzy. A sure bet.
Proceed.
Irrigation water is typically not potable, but neither is Kool Aid spiked with cyanide, and that seems to be the Rs beverage of choice.
Most communities in the Central Valley get their water from wells, and it is nasty stuff. Salty, including selenium and other crap. Of course, it is probably more the nasty ag chems in the air that accounts for all the birth defects.