Under the exposed pipes in the House basement, emotions ran high as the Republican conference argued with and cajoled each other to try to coalesce behind a new Speaker.
Maybe they could fill the post by lottery, on a rotating basis.
First-place winner gets a week as Speaker.
Second-place winner gets two weeks as Speaker.
Meanwhile, Organized Money laughs all the way to the bank.
#ObligatoryDrSmithReference
Republicans putting the divide in divided Government.
Losers who worship a loser only know how to lose.
One of the major principles of the GOP for the last 40+ years is that “Government is bad”.
Therefore it should be no surprise that the GOP elected several people who oppose governing on principle.
Which brings up a problem with using absurd rhetoric to win elections, you might actually elect people who believe it and act absurdly. So the Republican majority has several member who believe that a government unable to govern is a worthy goal and have achieved it.
What this means is that in order to govern, Republicans interested in governing, and that includes anyone wanting to be Speaker of the House, is going to need Democrats.
The only question is how much time will it take for enough of them accept this reality.
There is one thing we absolutely can count on.
That is the army of wypipo (though not exclusively) from sea to shining sea, mostly suburban and exurban, who will forget, support, or just shrug this out in 2023 or especially 24 and say that a political party that can’t even govern itself is JUST FINE to “govern” the rest of us somehow using a mixture of spite, aggression and anarchy, led by a man-baby whose disposable underwear is stitched in Cyrillic labels.
Because the alternative of less madness, marginally less graft and lying, and those who are different from us having any kind of voice is just too terrifying. Keep my bubble refreshed with cheap soap film, just don’t let her pop!
Fuck every last one of them.
"It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."
– Fielding Melish
Herding brats…
You misspelled “gnats”.
The GQP: Utterly. Fucking. Useless.
Newsweek has a video of Crenshaw tripping a reporter on the stairs. I am sorry that I don’t know how to embed it. No 10 year olds in the house. Anyway, Crenshaw is just another vile scumbag happy to hurt someone who bothers them. When is deliberately tripping someone assault?
Anytime Crenshaw counts among the less-crazy you’re in deep yogurt. It’s as if you had to claim there were “moderates” in Lord of the Flies.
This paralysis is the whole point. They’ll ride this into the shutdown, and then (in their heads) once one of their leadership group gets some concessions from the Democrats, they’ll put that person in as Speaker.
They come out of the shutdown unified, the Speaker has a ‘look, I get things done’, and the Republicans can all blame Matt Gaetz, who does not give a shit if he’s blamed, because he knows his job is safe.
Addiction to “blow it up” “shut it down” rhetoric is problematic when the issue at hand is your own political survival.
