Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. The House of Reprehensibles just lopped off their own head because Matt Gaetz (R-Swamp) thought it was a swell idea.
This is like taking investment advice from the smelly in the cardboard condo at the corner of Meth and Fentanyl.
“Now what?” one Republican loudly asks.
Beats me. Christ knows McCarthy was no prize — he made Paul “Lyin'” Ryan look like Uncle Joe Cannon and was as trustworthy as a rat in a cheese shop — but who wants to wear the crown now, with Swamp Thing in charge of the guillotine?
• Ho, ho. And now we have that model of decorum, Newt Gingrich, slithering out from under his rock to say that Gaetz should get the heave, and also the ho, because “some behavior crosses the line.” Pots and kettles, etc.
Mad Blog Media 
Brought it on himself. Dumpster continues using his minions to subvert the house with making Uncle Joe look bad as his first goal. The tangerine turd is a cancer rapidly metastasizing in the republican party.
Yup. Why on earth would anyone — especially a devious little jagoff like McCarthy — agree to let one whackjob in a House full of them call a vote for his ouster?
Everybody hated him, and they may hate Gaetz more, but hey, one assassination at a time, amirite? Got to swab the blood off the blade.
“A tisket, a tasket, a head in a basket / It cannot reply to questions you ask it. …”
Meanwhile, here’s your interim speaker. It’s not yet clear exactly what he’ll be able to do in the interim.
• Addendum, from the NYT: “Discussions on the future of the conference were being led by Mr. McHenry, one of Mr. McCarthy’s closest confidants. Mr. McCarthy had named Mr. McHenry first on a list of potential interim speakers in the event of a calamity or vacancy, but he does not have power to run the chamber — only to preside over the election of a new speaker.”
I bet there are some interesting words being offered from John Beohner’s wood shop. Well, he seems like he might have a wood shop. One with a lot of sharp implements for carving, cutting and ripping. Maybe he’s planning on inviting Matt Gaetz over for a lemonade. But lopping off one head will only offer more sewerage nutrients for one of the other writhing snakes. Yes, I believe that the only way for the GOP to crawl out of it’s current pit is be sure that the quicksand of justice doesn’t burp up the mangoman. Is that Paul Simon’s Slip Sliding Away that I hear from the back of the courtroom?
I’m now wondering what the over/under is for a government shutdown in 45 days.
How’bout the over/under on having a Speaker in 45 days?
That too
“Republicans in Disarray” — My all-time favorite headline.
Dale in Mid-MO Repug-Hell
The Constitution does not explicitly require the Speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been.
Could we have a dark-horse winner from outside? Hold your cards ladies and gentlemen ….. nothing would surprise me with this Congress.
It’s an interesting idea. Have anyone in mind? (I bet Newt Gingrich is waiting by the phone.) For sure, the first order of business will be to rewrite the rules so no one single knucklehead can force a vote to vacate the chair, and then find some zip-ties to keep the Angry Children’s Caucus from playing with themselves in public.
To allude to something Charlie Sykes recently said, when you are self-gelded, what sympathy can you expect.
Another article.
It’s probably too much to hope that all the Rethuglican shenanigans will lead to down ballot rejections by voters in upcoming elections. There must be a 3-d printer out there producing one screwball R-candidate after another. As long as the media flocks to cover the Bobitches, Groins and Gazpachos, and there are Jim Jordans lurking around, we will have to endure one nightmare after another.
It’s all entertainment now. And Cthulhu knows these bozos give good squeak. Ain’t a bus big enough to hold ’em. And just wait until Steve “David Duke Without the Baggage” Scalise takes the wheel.
Many choices, none good. Those who showing interest, and there are a few including the dumpster, are really ugly. Duplicity, cunning, lies, no honor and bad faith. Bring any names to mind?
Ho, ho. Scalise v. Jordan for the title. Is it wrong to root for these flyweights knocking each other out all simultaneous-like?
WE can only hope that the circular firing squad, which is the Repuglican Caucus, will start using real ammo instead of insults. Remove the shallow end of the gene pool. Para phrasing Will Rogers I don’t belong to an organized party I am a Republican.” This bunch of knownothings have no agenda other than tear the place apart. Hopefully, we will get our heads out of our rectums and kick the lowlifes back to the gutter. I fear for the Republic.
It’s entertaining to have had the thought or made the statement that sometimes the best way to improve the government is to flush everything out and start over, and to suddenly cut off funding or make drastic measures to attain rapid change, but wiser minds realize that it takes a lot more time and patience for that to happen. Being elected on a platform that one is going to go in and demand sudden action, only indicates that the voting base of that candidate really does not understand politics. The happenings that are occurring now only create tremors of disturbance throughout all of our lives and those of others around the world. The wiser individuals among us need to express the importance of US political stability and patient change in our government. Perhaps though, there are enough congressman and a few senators that believe this legislative rebellion is the way things should be. The only problem is that disturbances in government that are significant enough, can tip the balance toward true militant rebellion. This is something that of course we do not want, and need to strive to insure does not happen. It would be a pleasant phenomenon if the mangoman really understood this.
My son who is a civil engineer says the inside joke in road reconstruction here in the Mitten State is that contractors build “Republican Roads”. Lots of noise about how great it will be, then huge traffic snarls, way over budget and schedule and then the roads fall apart in short order and the finger pointing starts.
By god he’s right! He also says that he sees a LOT of Trump stickers on road crew worker’s personal pickup trucks which puzzles him since if it weren’t for Biden the dumb asses wouldn’t have work.
Dumpster endorses jordan. Slow coup number two continues.