Squeaker of the House
Well now that the GOP has imploded, it’s fun to watch the confetti fly all over the room. The Kevin McCarthy Piñata Party left bits of candy everywhere and congresskids are scampering all over each other just waiting for an adult to move them on to another sideshow attraction.
I think Louie Gohmert will see this as his big opening. Obviously he knows something that we don’t because he just filed campaign finance reports showing that he’s already accepting donations for the 2041 election. He has plans, my friends.
The hardest part for them is finding a family values Republican who isn’t screwing around. Remember when Newt resigned because … well, because he’s a screwing around professional … and they got Bob Livingston but he had a learner permit to be a screwer arounder. They ended up with Denny Hastert who turned out to be a pervert.
Republicans are still paying for what they did to Bill Clinton and I admit that I find great pleasure in that.
Texas has offered up Jeb Hensarling but Jeb says he wants to spend more time with his family. That’s funny because Jeb lives in a bank vault. Several, in fact. The banking industry locks him up at night so he can’t see what they are doing.
Republicans are having a food fight and nobody wants to clean up the mess they have created. They broke it; they bought it.
Aint this just more fun than recess in heaven?
“Family” is Hensarling-speak for his bankers.
“Write-offs and deductions” is Hensarling-speak for family.
1“Aint this just more fun than recess in heaven?”
YES! Yes it is!
2Pass me the popcorn please.
“Republicans are still paying for what they did to Bill Clinton…”
Sorry, but Republicans don’t pay, and aren’t paying for anything. Last time I checked , “Diapers” Vitter was still in the Senate, and planning to run for Governor of Louisiana.
Politically, their party hasn’t paid. The vast majority of current office-holders will be re-elected. They will continue to FUBAR the House through 2022 at least.
Vitter’s but one example of the institututional freakery that pervades the Repukes:
http://patrick.net/politics/Republicans+rape+and+molest+children+at+a+rate+of+10++to+1+compared+to+Democrats
3Feeling guilty that I’m enjoying this so much. Ultimately, though, it’s a sad state of affairs for our Country!
42041. Hmm. That would make Louie 88 years old. I wonder if he could put the cost of Depends on his campaign tab. Also makes you wonder how he’s paying for them now.
5As most of you know, I am a very simple guy. Thus, I present the Republicons with an easy solution: go home and stay home. That is what whiners usually do, “pick up their bats and go home.”
435 people is, at a minimum, 247 too many to achieve anything. So, let’s dispense with the obvious idiots first. Allow the return of Speaker Pelosi and see what she can achieve without those crumbling concrete anchors to progress. If necessary, Speaker Pelosi may send any Blue Dogs home, too, if they start stinking up the House.
The fewer the better, and let’s move this country forward!
6Supposedly McCarthy withdrew his bid for Speaker because he, too, is having an affair.
7PKM reminds me of several editorial cartoons done at the time when Pelosi took over as Speaker, all along the lines of “Oh shoot, we have to stop breaking everything and making a huge mess because Mom’s here now.” If only that would happen again. Breaking the government and making a huge mess of it is all the GOP know how to do anymore.
8Not so much a food fight as a monkey fight. And they don’t throw food.
9Chaffetz blew his chance – he spoke the truth
from huffpo
“”Did I look at the finances and have a hearing specifically as to the revenue portion and how they spend? Yes. Was there any wrongdoing? I didn’t find any,” he said during a Judiciary Committee hearing on the family planning provider.”
10My biggest regret in all this….. “food fight” yea……. “food fight”…. is…. I can no longer eat popcorn.
11PKM: The discussion on last night’s TV was we’re headed for another shutdown. Bring it on. Let the world know who’s fault it is. Shout it from the rooftops.
435’s not the problem. The prob is about 200 too many R’s. Only Dems can solve that problem by getting off their butts and voting. Too some degree we have only ourselves to blame.
12Hey, wait a minute! Where is Louie’s tinfoil Mickey Mouse hat?
13JAKvirginia, the keyword here is GERRYMANDERING. In Texas this is a gift from dear ole Tom Delay that just keeps on giving – to the Repugs. From what I’ve read, that holds true for a lot of the country, thus providing those safe seats that allow the “elected” representatives not to have a worry about possibly compromising with the other party, or to actually do some governing! Just look what they did to my district! A look at the map will show you Austin is now divided into in 5 districts, 10, 17, 25, 31 and 35, rendering a formerly Democratic district into 5 Repug districts!
14They stole our much esteemed Lloyd Doggett’s (D) district out from under him and placed my husband and me in Lamar Smith’s (R) district 21. Keep hitting the + icon to see just how tortured the district lines have become. We’re now located in that little squiggle at the upper right of the district! It’s a very safe Repug district but hubby and I still go stand in line to vote – just BECUZ. So, unfortunately, it’s not simply a matter of Democrats not voting…..
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/TX
Many years ago I heard that a psychiatrist must, MUST, go to see a psychiatrist for therapy in order to off load all the madness they soak in from patients or they’d go cray-zee themselves. The GOP should be required to fund a therapist for us all to off load their stupid that we’re being forced to absorb.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), named Reps. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Jeff Miller (R-FL), Tom Price (R-GA), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Newt Gingrich. “I hear a lot of names. All of those men are Valley Forge Americans that would serve this country very well,”
Valley Forge Americans? WTH? They must be the oath takers in the Malnourished Gangrene Caucus.
In response to Frank’s presser an observer posted:
“Those men are from states not remotely near Valley Forge, who’ve never served even one day in any branch of the military, and have never suffered even a paper cut in the service of their country, or state, or any cause.”
15georgieporgie: Yeah, okay. And when Dem voter turnout is 90% or higher then I’ll accept that as a point. But, in 2014 two million Dems in FL couldn’t be bothered. The numbers were just as bad in TX and elsewhere. My precinct in VA had a total voter turnout of 47%, one of the highest in the state! Dems say they want better, but if we aren’t willing to give an hour to vote then we deserve what happens. Silence = consent.
16Michael, my guess is that “Valley Forge Americans” is the name of a bar or a bordello in Dee Cee.
17Hey, georgieporgie, and any other wandering Democrats, come join us at our monthly meetings. “We” are SOUTH TRAVIS UNITED DEMOCRATS, an activist group that meets at Tres Amigos, down on the corner of Manchaca and Slaughter. Watch that left turn. We meet at 6ish on the third Tuesday of each month and have speakers. Usually the getting there early part is the most fun, but question and answers with speakers get right lively, with folks hanging out afterwards to hash out the world’s problems. I’ll be watching for you!
18Marge Wood, other mother of the world.
PKM: I like your words “crumbling concrete anchor” but would apply that right now to the GOP as “crumbling concrete sails”.
19Our gummint is definitely going to make interesting conversation in the future.
20Wonder who will write the history of this for school books….
21Register and vote! Help your friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors with registration and voting, whether it’s a small monetary gift or loan (or give a gift and call it a loan so s/he doesn’t feel like a charity case), internet access to track down documents, or rides to the DMV and the polls. Vote in every election, every year. Make it a habit if it isn’t one already.
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