Rs especially under Kev’s half-assed leadership have not yet learned the art of how to win friends and influence people. Time to quote Speaker Emerita Pelosi right about now: "He such a moron.’’
Is their goal to say ‘Well, we got it done in the House. It’s the Democrats in the Senate’s fault,’” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) asked TPM hypothetically. “So we spend all the time like the Spider Man meme pointing at each other, playing a blame game.
That sounds exactly like their game plan. As Mr Pierce notes, these really are the Mole People.
So McCarthy can become not-Speaker now, when Gaetz shivs him, or later, when the GOP loses the House – because of some redistricting and their shutdown.
As long as the talking haircuts on the teevee make goddamned sure that every idiot in every trailer across this country knows this is nothing but performance art that will fuck them royally, bring it on.
Hard to believe there are voters out there who are getting exactly what they want out of this. They view this as some kind of moral victory. Can’t imagine going through life being that stupid.
Some of the “one man, a billion votes” types are probably doing fine with it. Disaster capitalism. A big data reporter would be able to track the donations and the phone calls against the trades.
“The power to destroy a thing gives you total control over that thing”, Frank Herbert from his book “DUNE”.
The crazy caucus has the power if not to destroy the Republican Party, certainly to destroy the Republican majority in the House and especially Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership. This gives the crazy caucus total control of the Speaker.
But in truth this crazy caucus has much more power within the Republican Party. The crazy caucus is elected by other than economic voters. So if Republicans want their economic policies enacted not only today but for the next decade and more, as they have for the last decade, they must give control of their Party to the crazy caucus.
“The House and the Senate have to sign off on a budget to keep the government open,” Warren told TPM. “That means a handful of Republican extremists are now running the world in Washington.”
Both houses are broken. The House by the Hastert rule when the rethugs are in charge. The Senate by all the undemocratic rules/traditions, filibuster and this stunt Tubberville is pulling.
As long as they keep owning the libs they are fine with their representatives, they don’t believe the government does anything for them other than confiscating their money.
If Gaetz moved to dethrone McCarthy, why assume that the vote would pass?
I doubt all Rs would vote with the Freedom Caucus, not to mention some Dems could vote to retain McCarthy to defang Gaetz and gang…??
Which is why I love that, even on my trip out here to CT from Wisconsin, I couldn’t miss the signs along the interstate construction areas that advertised the Infrastructure bill and Biden.
It’s very hard to get someone to acknowledge something that doesn’t align with their narrative.
Especially from those that collect social security, medicare and medicaid.