Who thinks this is a good way to frame anything? Is there some differentiation between that certain Clapper, that specific Brennan, and any other random, sundry Clappers or Brennans we all know and...well, maybe not love, but still. A Clapper? No, you idiot simpleton wrong-worded dolt – just Clapper! Just Brennan!
The GOP goal since I can't remember how long -- at lest the 80s, probably long before -- has been to shrivel the federal state back to what was to the time of implementation of the Constitution, maybe earlier. Between the GOP majority on SCOTUS (Dobbs was nothing if not 18th century horseshit) and the de facto triumph of the Freedom Caucus, the sought victory looks to be close at hand. Of course fingers can be pointed all over -- my favorite these days is the DCCC's small dick energy efforts this cycle: choosing lousy candidates, in some places, choosing not to ensure a candidate in every district (WA3 yet again my example of the stupidity of not contesting every seat), choosing not to hammer George Santos and so on and so forth. But the DCCC is far from the only sinner.
But enough despondency. Yet again the answer is taking the fight local and bringing pressure from the bottom up. The battle on the federal level is being lost (it seems), time to move to where battles can be won.
OTOH, what do I know? I mean, it looks like I'm correct but, again, what do I know?
Yes, let them fight. But nothing about this three ring circus galls me as much as the calls from centrists and "pragmatic" conservatives for Democrats to bail out McCarthy. That is laughable for three reasons:
1. When your opponent is self-destructing, step back and stay out of his way. Oldest rule in the book, so old even the Democrats know it.
2. McCarthy is a liar who will promise anybody anything to get the votes he needs. He wants the Speakership so badly if a Congressperson told him he’d have their vote if McCarthy knifed his own wife or one of his own children, McCarthy would say “let me think about that and get back to you.” And that’s me being charitable. He may just ask the Congressperson if they have any preference as to wound placement.
3. Even if McCarthy himself were sincere (pause for laughter) he couldn’t make good on any promises of comity, because he will be a SINO – Speaker in Name Only. No way he can herd his caucus of lunatics, narcissists, bomb-throwers, and morons in a way that enables him to deliver on ANYTHING he promises. Especially given he’s one of the lunatics and morons himself.
fuckin' A, let them fight! them maybe, MAYBE, some of the brain-dead base will finally wake up to the sheer destructionist tendencies of their right wing leaders. maybe. but I still think it has to get a lot worse for the common clay of the new west before that happens.
Loving the "solution" taking Twitter by firestorm: the Dems should "do the right thing" by voting with the other side for a "moderate" Republican. As if they could find one. As if it's the Dems responsibility to clean up the GOP mess. 212 for Jeffries til the last dancer drops.
Brilliant as usual. Noonan will always be the Crazy Jesus Lady even when Jesus isn't in the conversation yet.
Meanwhile, here are a few of McCarthy's concessions we haven't heard about yet that I got from an insider:
- The Freedom Caucus will henceforth be known as the Central Committee and will have veto over all legislation (McCarthy is still holding out on re-naming the Congress "The Politburo")
- a single representative can not only call a vote on ousting the speaker but demand a public soulsearching in which the speaker acknowledges the harmfulness of his crimes, denounces those members who conspired with him against the Central Committee, and requests his own immediate execution.
But if not Kevin, then who? Nobody else has put their name forward. The lunatics have made it clear that the only Speaker they'll allow is one who is either completely disempowered or one of their own. None of the rest of the Party is going to support one of the loonies, and nobody will take the job if it has no power and is basically being a puppet for the loonies.
So even if McCarthy steps aside, there's still no real chance to elect anybody else as Speaker.
In the shortest of short strokes, McCarthy reminds me of the sloppy drunk standing outside the nightclub, arguing with the doorman about why he must be let inside despite being told NO repeatedly. That's the only analogy I have anymore because man I have got some serious McFatigue going on.
This has been really hard on the both-sider media, which has taken to saying “House” when the word they want is “ Republican.” “A divided House,” “dysfunction in the House,” “another failed House vote.” Amid all the mainstream opinionating no pundit has Noonaned a better solution: give Jeffries the gavel and quash all the time-wasting garbage-sifting hearings Kevin and the rest are jonesing for. But then what ragging on Democrats would the media have the next two years? Inflation? Gas prices? Immigrants? Harmful but boring compared to Jim Jordan screaming at Merrick Garland and our media, we all know, is built for spectacle and entertainment, not information and explication.
It is pretty obvious that the last time the crazyfication caucus was this strong was just before the Civil War. I know I'm not the first one to notice this.
Is that pic from "They Shoot Horses Don't They?"
"A Clapper, a Brennan?"
Who thinks this is a good way to frame anything? Is there some differentiation between that certain Clapper, that specific Brennan, and any other random, sundry Clappers or Brennans we all know and...well, maybe not love, but still. A Clapper? No, you idiot simpleton wrong-worded dolt – just Clapper! Just Brennan!
What is the matter with these people?!
Also, groovy illustration...
If we could get the bots to swap the appropriate memes back and forth folks wouldn't have to waste all this time on the internet.
We shouldn't pay these people until the House is open for business. No back pay.
Noonan shouldn't get paid because she's a stupid old drunk.
Throwing this out as a, like, possibility:
The GOP goal since I can't remember how long -- at lest the 80s, probably long before -- has been to shrivel the federal state back to what was to the time of implementation of the Constitution, maybe earlier. Between the GOP majority on SCOTUS (Dobbs was nothing if not 18th century horseshit) and the de facto triumph of the Freedom Caucus, the sought victory looks to be close at hand. Of course fingers can be pointed all over -- my favorite these days is the DCCC's small dick energy efforts this cycle: choosing lousy candidates, in some places, choosing not to ensure a candidate in every district (WA3 yet again my example of the stupidity of not contesting every seat), choosing not to hammer George Santos and so on and so forth. But the DCCC is far from the only sinner.
But enough despondency. Yet again the answer is taking the fight local and bringing pressure from the bottom up. The battle on the federal level is being lost (it seems), time to move to where battles can be won.
OTOH, what do I know? I mean, it looks like I'm correct but, again, what do I know?
Yes, let them fight. But nothing about this three ring circus galls me as much as the calls from centrists and "pragmatic" conservatives for Democrats to bail out McCarthy. That is laughable for three reasons:
1. When your opponent is self-destructing, step back and stay out of his way. Oldest rule in the book, so old even the Democrats know it.
2. McCarthy is a liar who will promise anybody anything to get the votes he needs. He wants the Speakership so badly if a Congressperson told him he’d have their vote if McCarthy knifed his own wife or one of his own children, McCarthy would say “let me think about that and get back to you.” And that’s me being charitable. He may just ask the Congressperson if they have any preference as to wound placement.
3. Even if McCarthy himself were sincere (pause for laughter) he couldn’t make good on any promises of comity, because he will be a SINO – Speaker in Name Only. No way he can herd his caucus of lunatics, narcissists, bomb-throwers, and morons in a way that enables him to deliver on ANYTHING he promises. Especially given he’s one of the lunatics and morons himself.
fuckin' A, let them fight! them maybe, MAYBE, some of the brain-dead base will finally wake up to the sheer destructionist tendencies of their right wing leaders. maybe. but I still think it has to get a lot worse for the common clay of the new west before that happens.
Loving the "solution" taking Twitter by firestorm: the Dems should "do the right thing" by voting with the other side for a "moderate" Republican. As if they could find one. As if it's the Dems responsibility to clean up the GOP mess. 212 for Jeffries til the last dancer drops.
It's hard to believe Peggy Noonan is only 72. It seems like she's been that age since Reagan.
Brilliant as usual. Noonan will always be the Crazy Jesus Lady even when Jesus isn't in the conversation yet.
Meanwhile, here are a few of McCarthy's concessions we haven't heard about yet that I got from an insider:
- The Freedom Caucus will henceforth be known as the Central Committee and will have veto over all legislation (McCarthy is still holding out on re-naming the Congress "The Politburo")
- a single representative can not only call a vote on ousting the speaker but demand a public soulsearching in which the speaker acknowledges the harmfulness of his crimes, denounces those members who conspired with him against the Central Committee, and requests his own immediate execution.
- open carry
- armbands (must be designed by a heterosexual)
But if not Kevin, then who? Nobody else has put their name forward. The lunatics have made it clear that the only Speaker they'll allow is one who is either completely disempowered or one of their own. None of the rest of the Party is going to support one of the loonies, and nobody will take the job if it has no power and is basically being a puppet for the loonies.
So even if McCarthy steps aside, there's still no real chance to elect anybody else as Speaker.
she doesn’t understand ... that the establishment is no more normal than the nuts.
Not nearly enough of us do.
In the shortest of short strokes, McCarthy reminds me of the sloppy drunk standing outside the nightclub, arguing with the doorman about why he must be let inside despite being told NO repeatedly. That's the only analogy I have anymore because man I have got some serious McFatigue going on.
This has been really hard on the both-sider media, which has taken to saying “House” when the word they want is “ Republican.” “A divided House,” “dysfunction in the House,” “another failed House vote.” Amid all the mainstream opinionating no pundit has Noonaned a better solution: give Jeffries the gavel and quash all the time-wasting garbage-sifting hearings Kevin and the rest are jonesing for. But then what ragging on Democrats would the media have the next two years? Inflation? Gas prices? Immigrants? Harmful but boring compared to Jim Jordan screaming at Merrick Garland and our media, we all know, is built for spectacle and entertainment, not information and explication.
I hadn’t thought of Gary Bauer in years. And Ed Meese is still alive? Meanwhile, Peggy Noonan’s gin-soaked fever dreams… I just can’t even.
"...the establishment is no more normal than the nuts."...
Word.
It is pretty obvious that the last time the crazyfication caucus was this strong was just before the Civil War. I know I'm not the first one to notice this.