Idaho Lt. Guv Keeps Cosplaying As The Guv When The Real One’s Away | Talking Points Memo

TPM Article Topics
1

Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin (R) has taken to pretending to be the state’s regular governor when Gov. Brad Little (R) is away.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1389834
1 Like
2

Coups against the constitutional order are like salted peanuts. When you have one, you’ve gotta have more.

26 Likes
3

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

11 Likes
4

She looks old for someone who’s only 5. She must worry a lot.

22 Likes
5

She needs to get her Air National Guard to intercept his flight and keep him out of Idaho airspace, blockade the borders as well while she consolidates power. Can’t have him returning too soon and ruining everything.

20 Likes
6

Nah, she wants him to come back. That’s the whole schtick – these are the downtrodden people, the victims.

“See, I’d LOVE to give you everything you want but . . . but . . . but . . . it’s beyond my control.”

The result is that they can declare anything they want with no potential repercussions or drawbacks, like the little guy in the barfight that tells his buddies to hold him back and then acts like he really wants to get into the brawl. The I’m-a-badass-but-I’m-not-allowed-to-do-anything is the best practice for reality TV contestants everywhere.

So she produces this paper tiger and then proceeds to the interview room to tell the audience how much she has been hurt by the actual governor. Literally – the interview room is on Fox News instead of the soundstage at the back of the reality show set.

13 Likes
7

McGeachin announced via Twitter: “I will continue to fight for your individual Liberty Intubation!”

(“And that of innocents whom you selfishly infect!”)

19 Likes
8

Which is why she should complete the coup, demonstrating how only she can Make Idaho Great Again.

Maybe using potato guns to defend the Capitol.

16 Likes
9

Little, who is in Texas wringing his hands over what the GOP claims to be President Joe Biden’s “border crisis,” accused McGeachin of “political grandstanding.”

Something tells me that, after Little returns to Idaho, he might be found wringing the neck of McGeachin.

5 Likes
10

Seriously, how can this happen? How can it happen twice, come to think of it? It’s crazy. It’s like a little kid sitting at the wheel of a parked car making vroom-vroom noises. It’s just, you know, not done. And here she is doing it. What is wrong with these people?

22 Likes
11

If they develop potato artillery, we’re all toast.

6 Likes
12

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ― Philip K. Dick

9 Likes
13

FIFY

7 Likes
14

I’m sure that tomorrow’s front page, banner headline in the New York Times will be—

“Republicans In Disarray! Idaho War Looms As N .Guard Splits!

9 Likes
15

Yep. It’s currently what you’d call a less lethal projectile. We’ve got excellent engineers in this country but I don’t think they’re on the verge of finding a way to make a potato explode.

6 Likes
16

The official shot her down in a one-paragraph response, telling the lieutenant governor that he was “unaware of any request for Idaho National Guard assistance” from Texas or Arizona.

To: Lt. Gov. McGeachin
From: Maj. Gen. Garshak

Attached is a letter received by my office on October 5th. I thought you should know that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Sincerely,
Michael Garshak, Maj. Gen., IDNG

12 Likes
17

Whoever figures that out will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Or Psychological Science. Or Anthropology. Or Zoology.

8 Likes
18

That’d be one hot potato.

4 Likes
19

Let me introduce you to my microwave.

12 Likes
20

Well, if there’s a liquid substance that can cure these people they’d better get it into the chemtrails as soon as possible.

9 Likes