by Noah
You know that old saying, "Elect a clown. Expect a circus?" Well, here ya go! Watch the fruition of the dreams of 74,000,000 Trump voters come to pass. Watch it in real time, folks!
In the end, not even the Moscow owned Speaker McCarthy was extreme enough to satisfy the Republican base and 8 of their beloved Russian assets in the House of Representatives. The vote to remove McCarthy was 216. The vote to keep him was 210. All of the present Democrats joined with the GOP's Great 8 in voting to remove Kevin McCarthy from the speakership for different reasons. Strange bedfellows. The Democrats saw McCarthy as too extreme, too chaotic, and too incapable of governance. The 8 wanted someone who could deliver an ever increasing amount of exactly that. The 210 Republicans who voted to keep Kremlin Kevin? Were they just happy with what they saw as just the right amount, the Goldilocks amount, of chaos. Yep, strange bedfellows all around!
Now what? Actually, I have no doubt those 210 Republicans who voted to keep McCarthy knew he was a goner anyway. In the House, the vote count is known, minus maybe 1 or 2 before the vote is even taken. That's what a Majority Whip does. The Whip knows the vote before it comes to the floor. If they don't like the count ahead of time, they don't hold a vote. They knew he was out. Were the 210 nazi votes really about the Goldilocks thing I mentioned, or were they just ass cover for more plans of more chaos to come? We will know soon enough. I know what I think. Prepare for the next clusterphuck to be one of biblical proportions. It's what Republicanism has been building towards for decades no matter what the level of opposition. Governance to Republicans has always been about incremental subversion. The dike holding back the chaos always had too many holes and too few fingers available and willing. Now, here we are.
So, who's next? You may or may not already know that the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House. So, who will the Republicans decide on? Steve Bannon? Roger Stone? Eric Trump? Elon Musk? Frank Drebin of Police Squad? Would they move to bring back Newt Gingrich? Rudy's lookin' for a new job. He'd fit right in. The Diaper Don? Putin loves him so why wouldn't any Republican? Texas Rep. Troy Nehls has already nominated Trump for the Speakership. Not to be outdone, Florida's Rep. Greg Steube has, too, and you can bet more will follow. Temporary Speaker Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, who, seeking brownie points, has already evicted Nancy Pelosi from her private office in the Capitol Building in an uber petty Jr. High mean girl move. That may be Patrick who's first in line in the meme above. Note his trademark bowtie. Obviously, Patrick wants the job but is he powermad enough to risk the details of his very sordid past coming to the surface? It's more likely that the Repugs will go for some hairy-palmed cretin like Gym Jordan. He's Kremlin Kevin without a suit. Everything going on in the House lately has been a trifecta of lunacy partnership between the two and Matt "Candy Van" Gaetz" but the latter has a more realistic chance for higher office in Flor-i-duh. So, the more things change, the more they stay the same. That's Washington in a nutshell, emphasize the 'nut' part.
Addendum: I've been hearing more and more about the possibility of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries running for the Speakership. I even get emails about it. To my mind, that's wildly theoretical at best. Besides, anyone voting for Jeffries to get the job might as well be voting for Jamie Dimon. Is it within the realm of possibility? Yeah, about as much as the Little Green Men landing in my backyard today. Having a Speaker Jeffries wouldn't solve much of anything anyway. People who hold out the hope that Speaker Jeffries could actually happen anytime before the 2024 election and the Democrats taking back the House talk about a fanciful handful of "moderate Republicans" joining up with the Democrats to elect Jeffries to run some sort of mythical "coalition government." That ship passed last week when the Nazi Party made it clear that they weren't interested in such negotiations. And, come on, what moderate republicans??!!!? Republican politicians and voters come in 3 flavors: Nazi enablers, Nazi sympathizers, and full-blown Nazis. But, go ahead. Light up another doobie.