1- eff with them. One Repug renegade said Dems are drinking in the Chambers, laughing at the proceedings, so they objectively have it coming.

2- show the country that Dems have so much more party discipline and cohesion under the leadership of Hakeem Jeffries! than these Repug clowns in the House. Hell, they could claim that they were trying to be bipartisan. Ahem.

[Correction: it seems McCarthy got back to 203 on this latest ballot.]

This was written at 1330/1:30 after the sixth ballot, whence McCarthy’s 201 is two less than the first ballot. Recessed until 8PM Leastern Timezone.

Flip flopping on Trump just days after having had to flee Trump’s mob told everybody that he has no spine whatsoever. Rejecting McCarthy against The Donald’s endorsement will also serve to further marginalize Trump’s hold on the party.

It’s like Thanks Uncle Donny, we’ll take it from here! And thanks for the Judges!

I know, I know I’m disappointed, too. So close and yet so far thanks to residual racism in America.*sigh*

But in the face of this, at least the Dems are practicing Joe’s Summer of ‘20 political strategy and appear likely to realize similar good results. I call it the Basement of Sun Tzu’s Parents Strategy and is summarized as When your enemy is destroying himself step out of the picture and simply let it happen.

What would that make Donald, a Burmese python?

In addition to being a "Florida man" is he also an invasive non-native snake that will consume small reptiles and occasionally a large American alligator?

Well, Trump's own mother meets his definition of "snake" -- the poem he performs in order to dehumanize immigrants -- and he's definitely his mother's spawn... so I'd say he absolutely qualifies based on his own criteria, which also makes his first and third wives snakes and only one of his children not a snake.

Good point. :)

Our government is funded until sometime in September. The Debt Limit will become an issue around July

the devil you know.

[I use scare quotes there because Kevin McCarthy is many things, but a leader is just not one of them. He more resembles an invertebrate than a leader, truth be told....]

I know, right!? Your statement there just reminded me of the most ignorant thing I heard somebody say during the day's circus, and it was hard to choose from among the abundant stupid:

If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise. I'm a Florida man, and I know of what I speak.

~ Matt Gaetz

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Three things:

(1) While alligators are cunning and powerfully strong reptilian vertebrates, Kevin McCarthy has proven himself to be a moronic inveterate invertebrate pile of chickenshit.

(2) It appears no one explained to the self-described "Florida man" that adult American alligators are, in fact, apex predators of the swamp... meaning, the only natural predator of an alligator in the wild (beyond humans who invade their territory, of course) is a bigger alligator. If you wanted to drain a quagmire full of various assorted swamp creatures, the "biggest alligator" is exactly what you would need. Idiot.

(3) Referring to yourself as a "Florida man" is only a compliment to other stupid people who are also actually ignorant male Floridians.

The problems of the GQP are many but consist primarily of the fact they have no platform, no actual plan to speak of, and no real leader because they allowed themselves to be eaten alive, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to watch them flailing.

I am not withdrawing my name from consideration. What I am withdrawing is every last promise I made to any colleagues who have a better candidate in mind than I. Giving away the power of the Speakership just to win the title isn’t worth it so come see me when y’all get it together.

It’s a variation of the reason that Dems can (and do) take the Black vote for granted and Repugs can (and also) likewise take the Evangelical vote for granted — where are they gonna go come election time?

McCarthy is the only game in town but his general cowardice keeps him from acting like it.

Repugs aren’t as atomized. Basically every ten of them support McCarthy and the eleventh is a Freedom Caucus insurgent.

We have two groups of [insert name of spineless species that moves in groups] here.

This is why I need to upgrade the site!

:-)

-CW