Republicans can’t pour Urine out of a Boot with Directions printed on the Bottom.
One Foot in the Gravy
Republicans can’t pour urine out of a boot with directions printed on the bottom.
First it was Kevin McCarthy who was deemed insufficiently conservative, then a series of people (including Steve Scalise, Kevin Hern and Jim Jordan) deemed insufficiently zealous in ensuring ideological purity. Please forgive my language but fuck a bunch of ideological purity. All of that chewed up more than two weeks, during which a return to regular order, negotiating with the President on budget cuts and trying to educate Joe Biden on what creates inflation and how to control it could not take place.
Finally, out of desperation, the party settled on Mike Johnson, a nice guy, deeply religious, devoted to his family and his religion. Ho-hum. A non-offensive little man who has proven himself quite competent at administration and able to keep the wolves from the spending door. In the interim, those tasks at which he excels have been moving along, but the two most important jobs of any Speaker have not. Those jobs are raising funds and recruiting talent for the Party’s future. Those require fire in the belly and single-minded focus on ruthlessly maintaining the majority. Nancy Pelosi excelled at those; they are foreign to Johnson.
Enter MTG
I fear that the House of Representatives is headed for deadlock again. Marjorie Taylor Green has filed a motion to declare the Speaker’s chair vacant. It seems Johnson is insufficiently fervent. He is trying to operate with a single-seat majority. One bad cold or a fender-bender makes Hakeem Jeffries Speaker. God help us
Yes indeedy.
And never apologize for good sturdy Anglo-Saxon vulgarisms. The forcefulness of vulgar expressions is more needed than ever.
I enjoy your perspectives, but the Democrats are willing to save Mike Johnson. That tells you how little their priorities are threatened by him. (Hakeem Jeffries himself has announced as much.) As for keeping the wolves from the spending door, I don't even want to know what would have happened if that was Mike Johnson actually holding the spending back.