Just as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to keep the government open by following the Kevin McCarthy playbook, so too will the party’s right flank not veer from its McCarthy-era (no, the other McCarthy era) retaliatory tactics.
First! From my understanding, I may now rule TPM’s commentariat with impunity.
GQP:
I guess it’s time to bring out the headlines that read:
“Good News For Maverick McCain”
and
“Democrats In Disarray™”
So are they saying that they will insist on a new House Speaker when the budget comes up again?
More pushing, shoving, shouting and nothing getting done? With voters getting ready for a vote in November?
Sure, let the good times roll.
These rituals of humiliation and punishment always redound to the shame of their gop practitioners but they can’t quit their fetishes.
House Republicans’ repeated attestations that next time Johnson blocks their hijacking there will be blood
I liked this scene more when Hans Gruber shot Ellis.
This whole Speaker dance is just kabuki for the “real” negotiation next time.
Organized Money has been forced to abandon its age-old trick of taking the economy hostage: there is rock-solid evidence that the public always overwhelmingly holds the GOP responsible when they shoot the hostage, and this year Biden even managed to talk the hostage-takers down in broad daylight (adding one more notch his grievously tattered belt).
So the ploy won’t work again. But you still want to dictate extremely unpopular and savagely harmful policy, and you’re still a minority, so what do you do?
What every Hollywood movie about hostage-taking did when they wanted to revive the genre: start the next heist with a surprising execution to prove you really mean business this time. Of course, choose for your victim some minor character who doesn’t have a big role to play in the movie. Not a hard decision for a sock-puppeteer to toss one sock: not emotional, and not a practical problem since grievance shamans are a dime a dozen.
“If we can’t fuck up the Government by passing our extreme shit, we will fuck it up by not doing our jobs at all!” – current GOP.
Is anyone the least bit surprised?
Why not “Satsuma?”
Santos, the GOP poster child.
“He’s got to find an opportunity to change the dynamics,” Bishop told Politico. “If he can’t, he’s going to follow the same path of not just the immediately previous speaker but a series of them who have not really proved successful.”
Maybe it’s the Republican Caucus that’s not proving successful instead of the Speaker. I mean, Nancy worked just fine with the Democratic Caucus, and she was VERY successful, as i’m sure Republicans would agree.
Republicans are loyal to their own. It does not matter whether they are criminals, murderers, rapists, pedophiles or gropers.
Probably because many Republicans not already elected to office may be very similar creatures.
I’m glad it’s a club that would not have me as a member.
While, at the same time, they lay in wait to accuse her and prosecute her for that very same success.
It’s long past time for the non-freedom caucus GOP reps to shut this crap down. Unfortunately, it appears there really aren’t enough “traditional Republicans” to bring these unruly children to heel. So, keep it up, y’all and let the chips fall where they may. Perhaps, just maybe there’s a smidgen of an outside chance that actual voters will toss 'em all and enable the Dems to lead from the front, rather than just mitigating all the damage these @-holes wreak.
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) insisted that the right flank’s rebellion will only rear its head if Johnson doesn’t change his governing strategy.
I love it when they do gang talk. Exceptional examples for our children.
If only they didn’t hurt everybody.
Funny how every scheme to “police ourselves” fails to deter corruption.
No wonder the Framers designed the branches to police each other*.
* Except for whatever branch Sam Alito is in.Dept of In case you missed it:
Lawyer Admits He Leaked Videos of MAGA Allies Turning on Trump (msn.com)
