There's a lot to unpack there.

First, who is this congressman? He's visible and not on the HJC.

Second, what he said in the first paragraph about Paul Ryan quitting. Here I've been thinking all these GOP folks bailing out is because they don't want to get creamed in the general. From this, it sounds like they know they won't be able to work with Nancy Pelosi as speaker.

And third, a Pence presidency sounds every bit as ugly as we expect. And they know it.

...impeaching a republican president.

I'd imagine that would put a crimp on networking with their fellow deplorables.

and with a corresponding wind shift in their base, they could be seen as "saving the country", especially since Pence would be primed and ready to go.

I gotta say, that prospect really has me worried too - Pence in, "trump was a sick man, he needs help" and his base (evangelical anyway) doing an about-face and marching to Pence's tune. Never missing a beat. Now, for the Jeff Flakes of our world, they've got future plans, getting out now is good. Wash their hands and wait.

This is what I hate most about politicians. And I mean 99% of them, from either party:

If you actually had the nerve to say that out loud, you’d not only be the next president, you’d be an American hero for generations. Statues would be built in your honor and entire libraries could be filled with autobiographies of you.

Americans like people with the courage to speak their minds. I believe that a failure to simply level with people is a reason for so much voter apathy. Right now what we’re hearing is the same thing all of our friends are saying — even half the ones that voted for Trump — except at least our friends have the guts to say it out loud, to our faces. So much cowardice.

And this is the greedy dotard assclown* the republicans and russians put in place to screw over America. Disgusting.


* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

He just contaminates everything he touches.

Delivered behind the anonymous screen of someguy Erik "son of Erik" Erickson, who is desperately trying to retrieve his own credibility. I'm guessing a sequel to Profiles in Courage isn't on the horizon any time soon for this crop of public servants or journalists (both terms given their widest possible interpretation).

Complain between the sauces and the canned peas instead of telling Trump that he is a shit throwing baboon that need to resign.

he is just as dangerous as trump

and he is knee deep in Russian money

both trump and pence need indicted

All this anonymous courage makes me crazy.

🎶 Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
You work, you save, you worry so
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go
So keep repeating it's the berries
The strongest oak must fall
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all! 🎶

How did Nancy fuck up the cafeteria?

She pushed to have all food containers and utinsels be compostable. Got rid of styrofoam across the entire House Complex.

apparently she also changed the menu to have gasp healthy choices like salmon and salads. How horrible!

But I’m usually on the Senate Side, not the House.
The ‘freedom fries’ left the menu though

But a few of the better chains are slowly changing that.

The fresh vegetables and fresh fruit sections in Publix, the best in Florida, is half as large as those supermarket sections in California, Oregon, Washington, New York City, Boston, Washington DC metro.

Pelosi was on the right track.

they are concerned, scared, disgusted, but prop up Trump at every public turn. They are as much of the "reality show" method of governing problem, as Trump is.

... or a refund, or a damaged goods return - I've got a valid receipt. How about we do the transaction - I write a check to close the sale - then immediately call the bank and stop the check payment.

Is there any idea that you could think of to turn back the pages of history so the Nazi Rethug Party does not stand full blame for this tRdump atrocity ? We are panicked and desperate - the blue tsunami is headed our way.

... THE PANGS OF A THOUSAND DEATHS.

terrifies me too, but I feel better with the reality that if that were to happen:

1. There would at least be a democratic house in place.
2. There very well could be a democratic senate as well.
3. The stink of Dump would stick to Pence everywhere he went.
4. He'd be all but neutered, left to do nothing but run out the clock on his two years.

That said, he's also a fundy zealot, so like any drone he'd never stop pushing his regressive, hate-filled belief system on everyone. I just don't think it would get very far.

...and when did he know it?

Right after the House Democratic Majority nominates Hillary to be Speaker. That's the BEGINNING of Justice for what the Deplorables have done to this nation.
It's not just trump and his gang of theiving treason-weasles that I want to feel the sting of this for the next quarter-century.

Because the CAFETERIA?
REALLY???
Fuck them all.

You reap the whirlwind.

These are simply the consequences of throwing red meat to an increasingly uninformed and delusional base. Every republican politician who is worried like this guy is getting exactly (well actually, probably far less than) what they deserve for how they have been running their party the last 4 decades.

Go back to his blood red district and talk shit about LGBTQ people, Muslims and abortion mamas to rile up his base, while he waves a gun in the air promising to die defending the Second Amendment. Damned hypocrits.

loony tune appointees.

That's how much the Republicans fear her, they'd rather cut and run than deal with her being in power again!

1. He's a Republican (stated, and essential to the point of the story).

2. He's a man (referred to as "he" by Eric son of Erick, who is unlikely to think of concealing a woman behind a male pronoun).

3. He's a Representative, not a Senator (referenced as "congressman" ).

4. He's not Paul Ryan or Kevin McCarthy (named in the rant).

5. He's not on the Judiciary Committee (referenced as "they" in the rant).

6a. He's afraid of losing the next election.
6b. Eric son of Erick is confident that he'll win given his "very Republican" district.

7. He was around when Nancy Pelosi changed the menu and utensils at the cafeteria.

etc etc....

issues. Why does he "hate" Gump? Typical POS rethug, both trump and the unnamed POS who enables him publicly.

hint hint hint