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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38672/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-id-ego/This Speaker of the House Sh*tshow Is Far From Over
Kevin McCarthy's demise shows the Republican Party's id has completely destroyed its ego.
By Charles P. Pierce
Whoa, Nellie. That didn't take long.
There are all kinds of chickens coming home to roost. This development which, I would point out, leaves Jason Chaffetz (R-Zygote) as the "moderate" choice for Speaker of the House, and third in line to be president of the United States is the final justification for all of us who have been saying for a while now that there is no "extreme" wing of the Republican party any more. The prion disease has taken full hold of the party's higher functions. It is already being bruited about the monkeyhouse that Chaffetz may not be pure enough to satisfy the Freedom Caucus, the claque of angry gossoons who sank McCarthy the moment that McCarthy told the truth about what the House is up to with its hearings on Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! Let us have a look at some of the folks in the Freedom Caucus, shall we?
Raul Labrador: Wanted to run for Majority Leader the moment he walked in the door. Led an unsuccessful putsch against John Boehner in 2013. Who's the sap now?
Mark Meadows: Wants to send the president back to Kenya. Has a bit of a staff problem on his hands at the moment.
Dave Brat: UpsideRid the Republic of Eric Cantor. DownsideThinks this was founded as a Christian nation. Is wrong.
Barry Loudermilk: Wants all immigrants to pack up and leave the country. Stalwart foe of Agenda 21, the secret UN plan to steal all our golfs. Was elected over noted liberal favorite Bob Barr.
Jim Bridenstine: Thinks he's Patrick Henry. Thinks the Supreme Court is not the ultimate judge of what is constitutional. Thinks Mark Levin is.
Tim Huelskamp: Made no friends. Influenced no people. Is from Kansas. Res ipse loquitur.
I could be googling forever here, but you get the point. The balance of power in half the national legislature now seems to be in the hands of the crème de la crazee. (This is such a mess at this point that Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin, and a man whose ambition makes Satan look like Uriah Heep, has done everything except hire a skywriter to say he's not interested.) Is this finally enough for the elite political press to notice that half the American political process is in full-blown dementia? Or does Jason Chaffetz have to lose, too?
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Prions is right.
valerief
(53,235 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Even - even - if Chaffetz could muster these numbskulls into electing him, he's only going to fall face first into the next pile of dogshit.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)There's probably a Wrestlemania-style pay-per-view in this. The batshit crazy is running amok. This unhinged collection of asylum Napoleons is both hysterically funny and genuinely tragic.
Alternatively:
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)tanyev
(42,589 posts)For this alone: "Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin, and a man whose ambition makes Satan look like Uriah Heep, "
In all seriousness, this is no way to run a country. More proof that the Republican party should be put out of its misery and give decent people a chance to govern.
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)Elect him, give him a good microphone, and let everybody hear what he has to say loud and clear. It's not good.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)To turn the Republican party into a roiling mass of burbling baboons.
Maybe it was all a secret plot by Rupert Murdoch to bring down the US so Australia could rise up and take it's rightful place as the leader of the western world.
eggplant
(3,912 posts)Kablooie
(18,637 posts)As long as we can duck it will be fun to watch.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Homegrown American Terrorists were pointing loaded Assault rifles at US Federal Officials.
I thought they (The Feds) were suckering the Bundy crowd into believing they had "won",
and would pick them all up about a week later when they had dispersed to their hometown,
but i was wrong.
BUNDY and his little band of homegrown terrorists actually WON the face-off.
Could you have imagine what would have happened if Bundy & his crowd were black?....or Muslim?.... or Latino?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Now we can only hope that they split off and form a 3rd party.
malaise
(269,103 posts)Historic NY
(37,452 posts)Right now its seems they envision themselves in the Speakers Chair.
Ah I miss the days when Congress was armed and dangerous..... It was so much more interesting...... .
<During one 1836 melee in the House, a witness observed representatives with pistols in hand. In a committee hearing that same year, one House member became so enraged at the testimony of a witness that he reached for his gun; when the terrified witness refused to return, he was brought before the House on a charge of contempt.>
<Most famously, in 1856, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor so brutally that Sumner had to be virtually carried from the chamber and did not retake his seat for three years. Clearly, wielded with brute force, a cane could be a potent weapon.
By the 1850s, violence was common in Washington. Not long after Sumners caning, a magazine told the story of a Michigan judge who traveled by train to the nations capital: As he entered the main hall of the depot, he saw a man engaged in caning another ferociously, all over the room. When I saw this, says the judge, I knew I was in Washington.>
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/opinion/12freeman.html
MH1
(17,600 posts)Charlie Pierce is a national treasure.
Off to read the full thing at esquire.com now ...
Skraxx
(2,981 posts)That's how it always ends. Always.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)...THAT is the work of a wordsmith.
Standing O.
dae
(3,396 posts)while the Vapid Oxygen Suckers try to outmaneuver the Rat's A$$es!
Break out the beer and popcorn and enjoy the show!