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babylonsister

(171,076 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 04:49 PM Oct 2015

Charles Pierce: This Speaker of the House Sh*tshow Is Far From Over

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.​​

As shocked members left the room there was a sense of total disarray, with no clear path forward and no set date for a new vote. Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said that in dropping out of race, Mr. McCarthy told the room, "I'm not the one to unify the party." A group of about 40 hard-line House conservatives announced Wednesday night that they would support Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, making it unclear whether Mr. McCarthy could assemble the 218 votes on the floor that he would need to be elected later this month.


​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?


Louie Gohmert: Padishah Emperor for life of the Crazy People.

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: Upside—Rid the Republic of Eric Cantor. Downside—Thinks 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?
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Charles Pierce: This Speaker of the House Sh*tshow Is Far From Over (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2015 OP
K&R alone for "claque of angry gossoons"! bullwinkle428 Oct 2015 #1
K&R for Louie Gohmert: Padishah Emperor for life of the Crazy People. Octafish Oct 2015 #2
Prion disease. Yes, they certainly are a party of Mad Cows. nt valerief Oct 2015 #3
Chaffetz has to burn first jberryhill Oct 2015 #4
It's Mayhem In The Monkeyhouse. hifiguy Oct 2015 #5
How big an invisibility cloak can the mass media weave for the racist, bigoted, religious zealots? Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #6
Jason Chaffetz (R-Zygote) CrispyQ Oct 2015 #7
Mmmm. Schadenfreudelicious! tanyev Oct 2015 #8
K & R Punx Oct 2015 #9
David Brat is My Rep ConstanceCee Oct 2015 #10
Fox News is achieving their ultimate aim. Kablooie Oct 2015 #11
Thank god they got rid of all their guns while we've been stockpiling them. eggplant Oct 2015 #13
Just wait till all the armed Republican factions become so incensed they start a shooting civil war. Kablooie Oct 2015 #14
I thought they were going to have that "shooting war" out at the Bundy ranch. bvar22 Oct 2015 #22
"the crème de la crazee" HA! NightWatcher Oct 2015 #12
the crème de la crazee malaise Oct 2015 #15
The Freedumb baggers are taking credit for the "coup de main" against McCarthy. Historic NY Oct 2015 #16
I regret that I have only one rec to give to this thread. MH1 Oct 2015 #17
There Will be Blood Skraxx Oct 2015 #18
Ladies and Gentlemen..... grasswire Oct 2015 #19
The BSC GOPers are trying to block the Really BSC GOPers, dae Oct 2015 #20
This is not funny! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #21
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
4. Chaffetz has to burn first
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 05:25 PM
Oct 2015

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)
5. It's Mayhem In The Monkeyhouse.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 05:37 PM
Oct 2015

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:

Punx

(446 posts)
9. K & R
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:16 PM
Oct 2015

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)
10. David Brat is My Rep
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:18 PM
Oct 2015

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)
11. Fox News is achieving their ultimate aim.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:26 PM
Oct 2015

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.

Kablooie

(18,637 posts)
14. Just wait till all the armed Republican factions become so incensed they start a shooting civil war.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 07:39 PM
Oct 2015

As long as we can duck it will be fun to watch.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
22. I thought they were going to have that "shooting war" out at the Bundy ranch.
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 04:53 PM
Oct 2015

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?

Historic NY

(37,452 posts)
16. The Freedumb baggers are taking credit for the "coup de main" against McCarthy.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:02 PM
Oct 2015

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 Sumner’s caning, a magazine told the story of a Michigan judge who traveled by train to the nation’s 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)
17. I regret that I have only one rec to give to this thread.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:05 PM
Oct 2015

Charlie Pierce is a national treasure.

Off to read the full thing at esquire.com now ...

dae

(3,396 posts)
20. The BSC GOPers are trying to block the Really BSC GOPers,
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 11:16 PM
Oct 2015

while the Vapid Oxygen Suckers try to outmaneuver the Rat's A$$es!
Break out the beer and popcorn and enjoy the show!

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