in whom I am well pleased. For now, anyway.”
Our long national nightmare is … only just beginning?
We finally have a Shaker of the Hose, a God-botherer, election denier, and Sniffer of the Orange Farts who has never held a significant leadership position in the U.S. House of Reprehensibles. Until now, that is.
Sounds about right. Let the Games commence.
Mad Blog Media 
Mike drop! Nicely done.
It’s just beginning, the nightmare that is.
Give it to Mikey. He hates everything.
Young Mikey is a Scalise pupil, handled PR chores and “messaging” for the House GOP caucus (should be easy; “We’re all batshit” would do nicely). Apparently hasn’t made any serious enemies yet, which seems to be his primary selling point.
God-botherer from way back, spent his legal career “defending religious freedom” and “Biblical values.” Likes to tell people what they can and cannot do with their naughty bits. Except for the Orange Fella, of course. The Chosen One can do whatever (and whomever) he pleases.
I haven’t seen anything about changing the rule that lets one asshat introduce a “motion to vacate,”* so I assume he’s got the same hotseat Charlie McCarthy was sitting in. A very hot squativoo indeed.
* The gang at Talking Points Memo thinks the rule remains in place.
Reminds me of a song.
How weird. I was just watching it.
The Trouble With Normal – Bruce Cockburn
Least experienced Speaker in over 100 years. No track record of negotiation. Strong track record from his days as a MAGAt attorney of confrontation and bullying. What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve seen him described as “Gym Jordan in a sports coat.” Another yahoo who’s heavy on agenda, light on ability.
The fondness of the American electorate for amateur pols never fails to boggle the mind. Who seeks out the surgeon whose only knifework has been on a medium-rare steak, the mechanic with clean fingernails, the plumber who says, “No worries, I’ve seen this done on YouTube?”
Well, he’s in the deep end of the pool now. It’s sink or swim, and here come the anvils.
Good news for Mikey: Nobody gives a shit what he’s up to with a murderous maniac on the loose in Maine. Good opportunity to slip some shit past the rubes while their attention is elsewhere.
Don’t forget the thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.
I’ve typed many replies; I could only post this one.
Trouble commenting again? Or is this the only one that didn’t turn into an extended rant? I have trouble with that sort of thing myself.
Comments are working fine. I just couldn’t write the same words that I’ve written so many times before and send it. I think many others are thinking the same thing.
Yes. Sometimes it’s better to just listen, to wonder, and to learn from.
unless of course you’re trying so hard to make American gag again.
I hear you. It’s like Hamas v. Israel. There’s plenty to say, but who listens?
Two religious groups, one run by a terrorist and the other by a corrupt, far right autocrat backed by religious extremists. All they want to do is kill each other. Easy sleazy. A one state solution is the only answer. This equal but separate shit didn’t work here, and it won’t work there. What if I was president for a a day you ask? I would call Notayahoo today and tell him to stop bombardment of Gaza this minute, or I will cut your aid off so fast you won’t shit for a week. Fuck with me and I will cut it off faster.
Dems need to propose bill after bill recognizing dinosaurs on the Ark, honoring Noah for his 40 days of waste management skills, etc. Bring his looney tunes beliefs center stage.
You may be onto something here. Propose banishing all gay Americans to “homelands” in Fire Island and San Francisco; banning all books, even the Bible, for content unsuitable to children; ordering a year of compulsory military service for all citizens, starting with members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the executive branch; require all Americans above the age of 12 to carry 9mm semiautomatic sidearms (firearms training optional, to be funded by a tax on funerals for gunshot victims); and declaring Peach Mint the Official Flava of the U.S. House of Reprehensibles.
These are all modest proposals. …
and require all retired cartoonists to work 420 hours a year in an illustrated bible printing factory looking for pictorial typos.
Mandatory service obligations where congresscritters’ offspring automatically go 1A, front of the line would get folks attention. Then how about, every time there’s a shutdown, congressional pay and health care is the first frozen?
Push that rope! Lead from the rear!
While we’re on the topic of the Shaker of the Hose, here’s an amusing aside about the “curse” dogging GOP wielders of the gavel.
The New York Times quotes Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) as suggesting that his party’s habit of sending its own leadership to the guillotine “reflects a more businesslike attitude toward the speakership among Republicans than Democrats.”
“Look, in the private sector, if you don’t do the job, you get fired,” he said.
Of course, the old pay envelope is a tad more secure if you work for your daddy’s commercial real estate bidness — as Norman has, since graduating from college in 1975.
Born on third base and still bragging about that home run.
Well, ain’t that the classic case of hypocrisy. Another silver spoon brat justifying the republican party’s malignancy, stage 4 with aggressive metastasis, of cantaloupe cancer man, AKA as donnie trump. And this norman is one of the secondary cancers. We are losing our democracy in plain sight to people like this, and most folks are still sitting around saying it can’t happen here. Now I will get off the soapbox that you so graciously provide us.
This would appear to be the second Norman invasion, though this time, instead of England, it’s happening in the good ol’ USA.
This is actually the third Norman invasion. Norm Peterson invaded “Cheers” in 1982 and was not ousted until 1993, when it became necessary to destroy the show in order to save it.
Norm!