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.
This guy has that “far away” look in his eyes. Come to think of it, Scott Walker had the same “dull normal” expression. Do they drink different water in GOPland?
1Barney Frank (whom I love, by the way) has a great piece in Politico about the GOP and their basic lack of understanding about how the government and the Constitution work.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/john-boehner-congressional-republicans-213228
2Boehner may have to stick around as Speaker if the Rethugs blow up their caucus and can’t agree on anyone.
Tee and then a Hee!
3Thanks TTPT! Good read. But people? Stay out of the comments. A ton of derp there.
4What I’m waiting for is the roar of outrage from GOP if McCarthy is speaker (GOP repeating the past with someone in the House named McCarthy and someone in the Senate who looks just like the original). Do you all remember the firestorm when Nancy P was speaker and was assigned a government jet capable of flying coast to coast? It was explained over and over that as Speaker she has to have government protection as #2 in line, the Air Force picks the plane that has to be large enough to fly non-stop to her HOME base of California. That didn’t appease any of the idiots but now this guy is also from California but GOP will probably want him to be given Biden’s plane or even AF1. It’s early here in LaLa Land but let me go on record today…I really cannot stand any GOPher. I cannot think of one I can stand.
5While he may be wearing a clean tie and has enough hair to utilize a comb, McCarthy is just Gohmert in a better suit.
This could be more fun than the ‘Con presidential debates. McCarthy (Kevin not Joe), Chaffetz (punter) and Webster (Dan not Daniel) are not allowed to talk, or at least not in the first round. Maybe since that requires seconds, we could convince them that a duel is in order.
6I enjoy the idea of McCarthy as Speaker because it gives us here in California a chance to prove that not all the crazies hail from the South. California’s rural districts are in it to win it and McCarthy is a key player.
I do disagree, though, that the fake Christian stuff goes right out the door in situations like this. Seems to me it just ramps up the holier-than-thou and conservativer-than-though sentiments in the House.
Of course, for the past few decades anything and everything serves to ramp up the holier-than-thou and conservativer-than-though sentiments in the House.
7LynnN, if only wingnuts would restrict themselves to the south. CA has distinguished itself with the pockets of the John Birch Society, impetus for the current Koch think. Jason Chaffetz was originally Tribe from CA, until he punted at Bang ’em Young University, then converted to Mo. Darrell Issa is another well know criminal from the region, but probably the most infamous alumni being Reagan his ownself. We in NV have a few beauts of our own, too.
Kevin McCarthy is like a bad version of Edgar Bergen’s dummy Charlie, but with a verbal form of dyslexia. (I love Nick@Nite, so I can occasionally make that trip down memory lane with my elders :D)
Kevin covers the st00pid, Jason does the rabid crazy; does anyone know what Dim Dan brings to this food fight?
8Stop the presses! The NY Times just announced that Kevin Baby has dropped out of the race (if you can call what he did a race) for speaker. Don’t you just love these soap operas, where you’re left waiting breathlessly for the next episode (not)?
9Mary R … quite the update! Kevin gone. Now it’s Jason and Dan, or perhaps there are some more GOPig liars lined up to shoot for the spot.
10Gee! That was quick.
11Just heard that McCarthy has dropped out for the chance at being Speaker of the House.
12Kevin just said he wants the party to unite 100% in order to be strong, and that he will stay as majority leader. I think he came down with the Benghazi Bug.
13Once all the adulterers have fled the scene maybe like the time Newtie fled, they can find some nice upstanding pedophile like Hastert to fill the void. Again I ask, who is this Dan Webster fellow from Florida?
14June, the Benghazi Bug is so common that even Sarah Palin has learned how to spell it. Another hundred or two investigations and maybe the Republicons will learn how to locate it on a map.
15Ten days ago I predicted that the Republicans wer going to make a mess of this, and that we should sit down with some popcorn to watch the mayhem.
Looks like I’m going to be making another batch of popcorn.
16Tebaggistan nuked McCarthy off the map? Last night one of their values zealots published that McCarthy was still having flag pinned flat backing frolics with his mistress, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC). A grinning McCarthy showed up to work holding hands with his wife today.
17Kevvie dropped out shortly after Dickus Cheney endorsed him!
Kharma? Or somebody uncovered something really nasty, really personal about Kev McCastrated?
The Kiss of Cheney, Worse Than the Kiss of Death…guess it’s better than a shotgun blast to the face though…
Bwhahahahahahah
It’s a bit worrisome though that 30-49.9% of the USA’s population is barking mad and votes faithfully for these aissholes.
18What did I just write here earlier today?
Somebody, please, pass me the popcorn!
19The best tweet so far
“Benghazi committee tries to take out Hillary, takes out McCarthy instead.”
Runner up…. “Leads for house speaker:
Pestilence
Louis Gohmert
A writhing mass of gibbering entrails
Paul Ryan
The Lich
A head that never stops screaming”
Second Place:
“.@MarkSanford tells @Emma_Dumain it was “mayhem.” McCarthy was “calm, cool and collected,” his wife was there, members were crying.”
20Sandridge, the teabag bloggers are saying that Kevin has a little friends with benefits problem with Rep. Renee Elmers (R-NC). What Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) was babbling about with his ‘let any with sin drop out’ hint the other day.
21The Daily Beast reports, “McCarthy stood before his colleagues in a closed door meeting and proclaimed that he’s not ‘the one to unify the party.’ His supporters began to cry.”
Tom Hanks (playing a women’s baseball league manager) once said there’s no crying in baseball. To bad that wisdom doesn’t apply to the House of Representatives.
22This is going to be a longer movie than expected. Pass the nachos and the sodie pop.
The GOPers are running short of candidates that can control their mouth, let alone trying to control their caucus. The reporters are probably salivating at the thought of any one of the wanna-bes actually being elected….as are the cartoonists.
23Y’all just wait! The real reason McCarthy quit will be floating to the top of the cesspool. The Rethugs buy their very nature can ruin a one car funeral!
24Polite Kool Marxist,
The Party of Family Values (& Corruption, Prevarication, Adultery, Perversion, Deviancy, Willful Ignorance, Etc.).
Like that pair of Michigan legislators and countless others (Speaker Hastert, serial adulterer Newtie, Diaper Vitter, Sen. Wide Stance, the list is endless…).
WhenTF is the ‘Murkkkan voter going to Whig these corrupt, perverted Focks into oblivion?
25My understanding is they are holding Boehner hostage. If I were a late night comedian I think I’d lead with, “Day 1 of the Boehner hostage crisis!”
John Stewart picked a bad time to retire.
26Boehner says he will remain in place until a new Speaker is elected!! By the way this is all going, he may have a long wait! He even cancelled his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show. That must mean it is really serious!!
LOL
27Louie Gohmert – C Span would turn into a high ratings reality show.
28Does this mean that Rep. Blake (Jammies) Farenthold (R-TX/Tbagger) now has a chance to be Speaker???
Party ON, GOPosaurs.
Bwhahahahahahaha, we are doomed…
29@Susan on the Left at #20, those tweets caused me to laugh immoderately, but is there really any difference between Louie Gohmert and “A writhing mass of gibbering entrails”? Maybe he’s running against himself.
30After the heir apparent of the Lord of the Flies refused the crown and a shiny new spear then confessed he wasn’t the type to unify lunatics, there was a blubbering sob fest in the GOP’s cloak room as tweeted by reporter Robert Costa.
http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-08-at-11.31.16-AM.png
31No matter who those reprobates choose as Speaker, it will not make a bit of difference. They are all arrogant obstructionists and the congress will continue to waste time and money on repealing Obamacare, Benghazi hearings, planned parenthood attacks and no governing will take place.
32I don’t know why he dropped out, he was getting some good coverage in Hillary’s latest commercial?
33Soon, we’re left with:
KKK fetishist Scalise, presumably with David Dukes on speed dial as an advisor
Issa wannabe Committee bully Chaffetz
Lord of Delusion Gohmert
Who else?
Too bad Boehner wants to resign. He might have gotten lifetime tenure, here.
34I’ll bet $5 that Tom Delay aka Hot Tub Tom will put his hat in the ring soon!
35Here ya go. https://www.catholic.org/news/politics/story.php?id=64623
36Sooo … just like with Courser and Gamrat in Michigan, by chance have McCarthy and Ellmers used government resources to conduct their “business”?
We’re gonna need more than popcorn. By the time this is all over, we’ll have to clean out the whole damn concession stand! Good thing there are sales going on right now for Halloween treats!
37The Banana Republics are seriously talking about getting Mittens Rmoney as Speaker.
Or getting back to Paul (Loser) Ryan.
R’s, the Party of Recycling (the garbage)…
38For those still reading, The Guardian (British) has a Help Wanted ad for Speaker, including:
• Full-time salary and benefits for extremely part-time work in gorgeous National Capitol
• Gluttony for punishment and lackluster organizational skills a must
• Confidence on camera a plus
• And for the Love of God know when to shut the hell up on Hannity.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/08/us-house-speaker-wanted-ad-guardian
39Any misdeeds? How do they define misdeeds? Stealing pens and paper clips from work? Pinching the backsides of their secretaries?
40Funny how they think dining together in an intimate setting (what’s that?) is moral turpitude while cooking up a fake investigation at taxpayers’ expense to try to ruin an opponent’s reputation isn’t. (And has anyone noticed that when GOP and maybe most politicians go canoodling around, the woman’s blonde? What’s with that?)
Lies is lies, darlin’s.
41There’s more to come; rumor has it that someone else is about to fall out of the closet. Will leave that to one of our friends with gaydar to confirm. The derp comments on the right wing sites are all ablaze. The circular firing squad has convened and the Teabaggers are taking no prisoners.
42More from the Twittersphere: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1429374/-The-best-Twitter-reactions-so-far-to-Kevin-McCarthy-dropping-out-of-the-House-speaker-s-race?
43From Renee Elmerr’s congressional biography:
“Long before Renee’s decision to run for office, she was a champion of community affairs and was actively involved in her hometown of Dunn, North Carolina.”
Guess she gets around.
44Wishwishwish you had a ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ button…some of your readers say such great things!
45The only person who might want this job is Mike Rowe.
46John Boehner and the Banana Republic’s anthem and theme song:
“Now I ain’t got nobody, nobody cares for me “.
Some of you might remember it, a (novelty?) version from the ’50-60’s by who? Covered by many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ain%27t_Got_Nobody
” “I Ain’t Got Nobody” (sometimes referred to as “I’m So Sad and Lonely”) is a popular song copyrighted in 1915. ”
http://www.songlyrics.com/bing-crosby/i-ain-t-got-nobody-lyrics/
“Now I, ain’t got nobody, nobody cares for me
And I’m so sad and lonely
Won’t somebody take a chance with me
I’ll sing sweet love songs, honey, all the time
If you’ll come and be my sweet baby, mine
I ain’t got nobody, nobody cares for me
I ain’t got nobody, nobody much
Nobody cares for me
I’m so sad and lonely, because I’m homely
Won’t somebody take a chance with me
I’ll sing sweet love songs, honey, all of the time
If you’ll come and be my sweet baby, mine
I ain’t got nobody, nobody cares for me ”
Sing it into your fifth ‘Old Fashioned’, John…
47https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fashioned
(one of my favorites)
As a Californian I am just a little ashamed that our right-wing WingNuts do not have the staying power of those from the great states of Texas or Florida or Alabama.
48Or better yet, Mr. Speaker John, into five or six Painkillers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(cocktail)
(my #1 favorite)
49McCarthy’s run as Speaker was so short…
[this is the part where you say “How short was it?”]
McCarthy’ run as Speaker was so short, it didn’t outlast his predecessor’s. It was so short, it couldn’t ride a rollercoaster. But it was like a rollercoaster; the part where it plunges straight down accompanied by screams. It was so short, this JOKE was longer. But not as funny.
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