Burning Down the House
Show the speaker voting aye.
I know everyone’s been binge watching Kevin McCarthy’s House speakership debacle because, really, how can you look away? I haven’t watched this much C-SPAN since every single Friday night in my 20s.
Today marked the TWELFTH TIME McCarthy lost the vote. That’s ONE MORE TIME THAN ELEVEN. Although he did manage to win over some of the holdouts by negotiating his title from “Speaker” to “Kev.”
But I get it. After an entire year of lobbying classmates for their votes, I went to my senior prom fully expecting to be crowned prom queen. I had even written out a prepared speech thanking my less attractive classmates for this honor. But when they announced what had to be the wrong name, I screamed THIS WAS ALL RIGGED.
Much like McCarthy, I demanded several recounts. However I learned a valuable lesson that McCarthy clearly hasn’t learned yet. The prettiest girl always wins.
Since McCarthy will most likely become the weakest speaker in American history, the Republican party will continue to implode. It’s the party of Trump held captive by a group of asinine hard-liners who believe the election was stolen and Covid is a lie and the long-deceased JFK, Jr. will return as Q. Which is funny since he was always a liberal Democrat. Which is also decidedly not funny since these tiny little walnut brains are making decisions that affect the entire country.
Think Lauren Boebert. Every time I see a photo of her, she looks like Bo and Luke Duke are waiting outside the Capitol for her in the General Lee. And yet, somehow she’s a member of Congress.
Came here three weeks later to say I still laugh at this:
"I haven’t watched this much C-SPAN since every single Friday night in my 20s."
Millard Fillmore, not surprisingly a Whig, would chortle at the Speaker’s “race” I keep thinking the GOP will one day go the way of the Whigs. That is, of course, unless Matt Gaetz and MTG (Marjorie Taylor Green) doesn’t have us practicing our goose-stepping on Saturday mornings.