Remember the Republican congressfool who thought the government had 4 branches, and I foolishly mocked him?  I mocked him for thinking that.

Now I have to apologize to him.

We have the judicial, the legislative, the executive, and Eric Cantor.

In the dark of night, in a secret corner of congress, the Republicans passed a totally new rule that says a majority of votes cannot stop the government shutdown.  We have to have Eric Cantor’s permission in order to bring it to a vote.

 Chaffetz said the recently passed House Resolution 368 trumped the standing rules. Where any member of the House previously could have brought the clean resolution to the floor under House Rule 22, House Resolution 368 — passed on the eve of the shutdown — gave that right exclusively to the House majority leader, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia.

This means that all the other members of congress can pack their bags and go home because they can’t do diddle squat without Eric Cantor’s permission.  Cantor was last seen strutting around the house gym shaking his money maker in everybody’s face.  Okay, so I made up that last thing but it could happen.  You know it could.  You know he could even go to the White House and do that twerking thing.  He’s that kind of guy.

I am totally at a loss to explain how you can make Eric Cantor the fourth branch of government without even a peep from the semi-sane branch of the GOP.  That, my friends, is how much power a small group of greedy old white people with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other – neither of which they know how to use properly – run this country.

Dammit.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.