Remember the last time Republicans played musical chairs with the Speakership?

It’s deja vu all over again.

First there was Newt Gingrich.  Newt announced that he would not preside over “a chamber filled with cannibals,” when Republicans blamed him for … well, they blamed him for being Newt Gingrich. That whole cannibal thing made me giggle since Gingrich had been chewing on Bill Clinton’s butt for four years.

Of course Gingrich meant that Republicans were eating their own.  Yeah well, that has not changed.

So in 1999, Gingrich quits. Next comes Bob Livingston, one of Clinton’s loudest critics. Turns out that Ole Bob been sparkin’ in the barnyard so he has to step down in a public humiliation that’s becoming a ritual for sanctimonious Republicans.

Next, a backroom deal was done and a former high school shop teacher without enough brains to scramble was selected.  Denny Hastert was two IQ points smarter than his gavel but he was clean.  Or so they said.

An attorney for Dennis Hastert told a federal judge Thursday that the former House speaker intends to plead guilty in a federal hush-money case.

The 73-year-old Illinois Republican is charged with breaking banking laws and lying to the FBI in efforts to pay someone $3.5 million to hide claims of past misconduct.

You know, it’s a good thing that we have video of all this because future generations would never believe that Republicans did this even once, not to mention twice.

Bless their hearts, they are playing hell trying to find a guy with a rusted zipper.