Want to Feel a Cold Chill Down Your Spine?
It’s bad enough that Newt Gingrich offered himself up to be Speaker of the House, but Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas his a plan, too.
Cotton believes that with all the “instability” (new word for crazzzy) in the House leadership, it’s time to turn to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
“Look, these are trying times for our nation. It’s important to have a steady hand on the helm during times like this. I think experience really counts in a matter like this. I think House leadership experience really matters. And as you know the speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House: So therefore, Vice President Cheney for speaker.”
Yeah, I’m trembling, too.
Thanks to Craig for the heads up.
Great. A zombie for Speaker. I told my husband that Dick Cheney probably keeps a supply of bodies in suspended animation for when he needs a new heart.
1Proof positive that the Repugs are still the regressive party.
2War criminals are decidedly not eligible to be Speaker of the House.
No Senator Cotton-picker we DO NOT need Darth Cheney as Speaker of the House! That building hasn’t a dungeon big enough to stow even a small percentage of his torture implements.
3Either would be great. Another nail in the Rethug coffin for 2016 elections. Obama vetoes everything before then.
4…And I really miss Jon Stewart at times like this.
5Tommy Treason is such a piker. Darth Cheney doesn’t have the beating heart to do the damage 47-T wants. The job calls for insane communication skills, colossal ego, and a marriage to autocracy. The man for the GOPigs is Kim Jong-un.
6So much for a Harvard education. Guess they can start tattooing the diplomas directly on the small of the graduate’s backs.
You know who else had a steady hand on the helm? Mao, that’s who. Morphine will do that for you helm hand.
7When Tom stops creeping people out like one of the walking dead, we’ll make sure his buddy Darth Voldemort Cheney sits next to him and tells him what the blood from cute puppies taste like.
8I guess I’m on a movie kick, today. I hear this line in my head every time I think of Dick Cheney, but really, it describes the heart and soul of The tea Party, if they had a heart, or a soul:
It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. (Kyle Reese in The Terminator)
9Experience? How about Satan? He has experience. And I’m sure he is a Republican who would love to destroy health care, the environment, freedom of choice, etc.
10I just knew some Con would suggest that. After all, who else could control what’s left of the GOP except the Devil himself.
I’m surprised Tom Delay hasn’t thrown his hat in. Or has he?
That old Chinese curse has finally kicked in: May you live in interesting times.
This ClusterMuck in DC has been interesting. Horrifying, but interesting.
Dick Cheney.
Good Grief.
11Dick Cheney as Speaker? Think of all the time it would save. There would be no honeymoon period after he stepped into the position. Everybody already despises him.
12NOOOOOOOOOO!!! No Cheney for nuthin’ except maybe jailbird.
13I am sure they could get Charles Manson out on parole.
14What a coincidence– Cheney is depicted on the T-shirt of the day at woot.com:
http://shirt.woot.com/?ref=gh_sh_9
15Say what? They couldn’t find anyone more evil?
16@coozledad
17That made my day. Harvard education reduced to a tramp stamp. Wow!
Shut up, Tom Cotton. Now and forever more: just shut the hell up.
18Would someone please unplug that freakin’ war criminal? I cannot believe anyone in their right mind would even breathe that horrible man’s name out loud.
19Dick Cheney’s far too liberal for the Freedom Caucus… they think the John Birch Society is a Communist front organization.
20So Cotton is admitting that there is no Republican in the House qualified to be Speaker??? Well, Cheney is not qualified to be a human being.
21Obviously the way to totally demoralize and defeat the Iranians is to drop Cotton, Cheney, and Gingrich on Teheran. The triple mendacity will destroy their will to resist. Despite naysayers, strategic bombing still has its uses.
22OK, Cotton-head! Walter Jones wants all the possibilities for Speaker to be thoroughly vetted! Cheney will never let that happen. There’s too damn much to hide. Scratch him off your list.
23Canada, here I come!
(I would have commented sooner but I was in the bathroom being violently ill.)
24What if they gave an election for Republican Speaker of the House and nobody came?
25Dick Cheney for Speaker of the Louse. Seriously.
26Another cold chill,Michigan woman who fired her gun in parking lot at fleeing shoplifters gets a single charge against her.
27Maybe he’s just trying to keep Voldemort away from his hunting grounds…
28As horrifying as the thought of Dick Cheney in charge of ANYTHING is, I believe that he is actually not conservative enough for this Republican party. Like many conservatives, he has “situational compassion”. Meaning that he supports gay rights, because he has a gay daughter.
29Actually, Cheny is a logical choice for Speaker of the House. He has successfully destroyed everything he’s set his mind to. Why not the House?
30Arkansas has hit a new low with Tom Cotton. What an idiot.
31Cotton used the phrase “I think” twice. The fact is he never thinks at all.
32Giving the speakership to Cheney essentially gives wingnuts one more unelected vote in Congress where they already hold a majority of seats.
33Tom Cotton has been running for President since before he moved back to Arkansas, found a weak little House seat he could take, then abandoned his brand new job as Congresscritter to run for the Senate. Somewhere along the line he got married. A couple of weeks ago there was a “grassroots” movement (cough) attempting (cough, cough) to get him to run for the Repub nomination this time. Don’t think so. It doesn’t really fit his projected schedule. A Dem win this time would probably suit him just fine, so he could make the run in four years instead of having to wait (and probably attend Senate hearings/meetings rather than fundraisers) for eight.
34Sounds like Cotton has found an experienced running mate when he takes on Hill or Bern in 2020
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