Please Forgive Me – Edited: Never Mind
Y’all please forgive me but I am rooting for Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker. Everyday would be like word roulette to have him as Speaker.
You absolutely never know what’s gonna explode from his mouth because he never seems to realize when he’s using his outdoor voice. It seems to me like he’s a guy with a big garden and a dull hoe. He’s gonna just whack away without accomplishing much.
Democrats will probably stick with voting for Pelosi, so with the Freedom Caucus holding out tighter than skin on a catfish there just might be a nasty floor fight. Watching Republicans fight is my favorite pastime, mainly because all that fake Christian stuff goes right out the door.
Hey, at least it ain’t Gohmert.
On edit: Never mind. He dropped out.
Earlier this week, GOP Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina also spurred gossip when he suggested that any candidate for that party’s leadership who has committed any “misdeeds” since being elected to the House should step down.
Well hell, now they don’t have anybody.
LynnN says,
Our pRicks are just stiffer’n your’s…prolly comes from all the Viagra in the downstream water supplies.
1Sandridge: Louis Prima’s version is the gold standard.
2daChipster says,
Louis Prima’s version…
Bingo, that’s the one I remembered, that gravely growl on the radio when I was in HS?
I guess it was grade school…:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Prima#A_new_act
“He released his first album with Capitol Records, The Wildest!, in September 1956.[3] Some of the popular songs include his medley of “Just a Gigolo” and “I Ain’t Got Nobody”.[3″
3Speaker Boner may not be leaving when planned. (Maybe a travel agent can do something about his cruise dates…) The Republicans could do us a favor and just elect Nancy Pelosi. She’ll have the job anyway in January 2017. In the mean time they can continue to investigate the phantoms at Benghazi and HRC’s e-mails about lunch on that flight to Sweden. That would leave an adult in charge and doesn’t play into their fantasies.
4Oh God, now Newt Gingrich wants his job back. Apparently you don’t have to be a member of the House to be Speaker, and 3rd in line for the presidency.
5What really weirds me out is the confluence of:
1. The Speaker is 2nd in line for the Presidency,
and
2. The Speaker can be anyone, not just an elected member of the House.
This give rise to enough nightmare conspiracy scenarios to fill a dozen potboiler political novels. And while it may make for entertaining diversion reading, it’s a hell of a way to run a country.
6I forgot to state the obvious in my last post. Theoretically, someone who has NEVER held elective office, say, one of the Koch brothers, for instance, could end up as President of the United States.
If that doesn’t give you the shivers, I don’t know what will.
7Last night on Rachel Maddow, she suggested that since nobody wants the Speaker job, which is a political career killer (appalling in itself), that they put it on a chore wheel, and make each Rep. serve as Speaker for 3 days.
Couldn’t work any worse than what we’ve got.
8Cool plan: speaker by committee … thank you Lenargent. We end up with a platypus congress.
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