Clearly time for Republicans to kick McCarthy out of the Republican caucus. Might as well strip him of his committees too.
Then again, he may be the perfect abject loser Trump wants as Speaker, so McCarthy may get his dream job with the small drawback of being completely under Trump's thumb. Maybe even Trump as effective Speaker with McCarthy as nothing more than his mouthpiece. That'd be about what McCarthy deserves.
With respect to Disney and Orange and Osceola counties, if those 2 counties voted more often for Republicans, Republicans in the state legislature might give a damn about the people in those counties. As it is, I figure Republicans would love to see Democrats pay more taxes while also, er, enjoying the laws the Republicans have passed.
Am I incorrect in believing that Disney could still have its own private firefighting organization and private security operating on its resort private property? If so, hard to see how much would change for Disney.
Republicans are punishing Disney for exercising their First Amendment rights. The law they passed is a bill of attainder specifically prohibited by the US Constitution.
It is hard to imagine the GOP taking the risk of allowing McCarthy to become speaker. He's not very bright but he thinks that he is. I recall an observation from someone in my youth.
I don't think McCarthy will be Speaker after this. But there will still be a Republican Speaker. The 1/6 Committee is not going to be done with this investigation before Republicans dissolve it early next year, in a ploy akin to Trump firing Comey. The Biden Administration needs to appoint a 9/11 Commission-style investigative committee that is not under House leadership control, and do it soon enough that there can be a transition from the current committee to the new one.
McCarthy is and always has been a shitshow in a skinsuit. I think this whole affair proves *he will get* the Speakership, because he has proven the extent to which he will truckle under for daddy.
I so desperately want to add more jokes, but my sense of humor is too obscene for The Bulwark.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to tell you about a dream I had last night. It was simply that it was 2024 and Trump was elected. The shock of it wasn't new to me. It was the same as the death of someone close to me. I have experienced the geography of grief enough to know that the initial shock isn't the worst part. It's the many, many days that follow, the ever-present dull awareness of irretrievable loss. Or, maybe worse, a moment of forgetting, and then remembering again.
When I couldn't get back to sleep, I began imagining Kevin McCarthy's plane ride from DC to Florida those few days after Jan 6. He would have rehearsed, polished his just-right humility, decided on the most potent words of flattery, flashed some anger over the stollen election. What I most wonder is could he feel his soul slipping away? As maybe a touch of indigestion, or a slight strain in his back. Or does a soul just go away, silent and unobserved, not made of any earthly matter at all?
The calculation by McCarthy and McConnell, cynical as it may have been, was that had they followed through Trump would have left the Republican party and taken the majority of its voters with him. The party would have permanently splintered and gone the way of the Whigs.
Moscow Mitch, the lizard look-a-like from Kentucky, and Kevin "where must I crawl to next your Maganess" McCarthy, the former poor as a church mouse sleazebag from California, have for so long enjoyed the benefits of sucking on the teat of the Federal government they are without humility. The taste of power and wealth (however wealth might be defined by two individuals who would have found it difficult to find two spare nickels to rub together before they entered politics), has not only left them without a conscience, but they lack even a modicum of decency and dignity. For the two, and many others in Congress just like them, they have placed their need for money and power ahead of the needs of the American people, the very people for whom they work. With the lizard it was marriage and connections. With the church mouse it was marriage and dubious claims of ancestral bloodlines, or other such nonsense that would have kept him out of some of the finest WS clubs. Perhaps church rat is more appropriate. They have on so many occasions, shown exactly what they are, and leaders is what they aren't. The people who support these two clowns are just as culpable as they in their pursuits.
The coverup is always worse than the crime. This is what conspiracy theorists don't understand. Any conspiracy larger than three people and somebody is eventually going to talk.
That $2000 family s just for assumption of debt. I read that Disney pays nearly $100m per year for services from those counties. That money will go poof if Ronny gets his way
In short: more of the same. And worse. Because that’s what happens when there is no requirement to take responsibility for one’s words and actions. At least in GOP politics we now live in a post-accountability era as much as a post-truth one, in which right and wrong are less important than what you can get away with and who has your back. And it is inevitable that each time someone in politics succeeds at wriggling off of a hook -- one that would put you or me in jail, get us fired from our jobs, and cost us the support of people close to us -- it both enables them to do more of the same and inspires others to go down the same pathway in the race to the bottom of what appears to be a bottomless pit.
We’ve seen this show before. Many times now. It never ends well because, unlike with us, they never suffer consequences. It will be an endless loop of moreofthesameness until enough people leave their tribes and come back to the community. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. I’ve been too disappointed in my fellow beings for too long now to hold out any real hope, much less expectation, that their morality somehow will return out of the blue, as if a Hollywood movie ending to a real life shit show.
McCarthy’s lily-livered cynicism will have far less effect on the future of mankind than Manchin’s and Synema’s, who have stood in the way of historic, last-chance legislation over false concerns over small-bore nonsense like “inflation.” Inflation goes up and down, forever. But a person starves and bridges collapse and the earth tips into perpetual warming hell but one time.
Good to see some ‘heroism’ awards still mean something, since the Presidential Medal of Freedom was forever tainted by DJT with the awarding to Limbaugh.
The real problem isn't actually Kevin McCarthy, it's the republican base that's the real problem. As long as the actions of the leadership satisfy the anger and ignorance that the base has, this will get continually worse until the democracy is simply a memory.
I don't like Cheney's politics but by God I respect her for her dedication to the country. But the base of her former party? No, It's disgustingly thoughtless, racist, homophobic and seeks retribution for it's inadequacy to be the best they could ever become. Idiocracy was Prescient as a movie. We'll wallow in the loss of intellect.
But McCarthy? He's really pretty stupid. McConnell on the other hand isn't stupid, he's just disgusting.
Charlie, I reject your premise that Kevin McCarthy is capable of humiliation.
Clearly time for Republicans to kick McCarthy out of the Republican caucus. Might as well strip him of his committees too.
Then again, he may be the perfect abject loser Trump wants as Speaker, so McCarthy may get his dream job with the small drawback of being completely under Trump's thumb. Maybe even Trump as effective Speaker with McCarthy as nothing more than his mouthpiece. That'd be about what McCarthy deserves.
With respect to Disney and Orange and Osceola counties, if those 2 counties voted more often for Republicans, Republicans in the state legislature might give a damn about the people in those counties. As it is, I figure Republicans would love to see Democrats pay more taxes while also, er, enjoying the laws the Republicans have passed.
Am I incorrect in believing that Disney could still have its own private firefighting organization and private security operating on its resort private property? If so, hard to see how much would change for Disney.
Someone needs to go after Dan Bongino. He's spreading more lies than anyone on the right.
Republicans are punishing Disney for exercising their First Amendment rights. The law they passed is a bill of attainder specifically prohibited by the US Constitution.
It is hard to imagine the GOP taking the risk of allowing McCarthy to become speaker. He's not very bright but he thinks that he is. I recall an observation from someone in my youth.
"He could fuck up a wet dream."
I don't think McCarthy will be Speaker after this. But there will still be a Republican Speaker. The 1/6 Committee is not going to be done with this investigation before Republicans dissolve it early next year, in a ploy akin to Trump firing Comey. The Biden Administration needs to appoint a 9/11 Commission-style investigative committee that is not under House leadership control, and do it soon enough that there can be a transition from the current committee to the new one.
McCarthy is and always has been a shitshow in a skinsuit. I think this whole affair proves *he will get* the Speakership, because he has proven the extent to which he will truckle under for daddy.
I so desperately want to add more jokes, but my sense of humor is too obscene for The Bulwark.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to tell you about a dream I had last night. It was simply that it was 2024 and Trump was elected. The shock of it wasn't new to me. It was the same as the death of someone close to me. I have experienced the geography of grief enough to know that the initial shock isn't the worst part. It's the many, many days that follow, the ever-present dull awareness of irretrievable loss. Or, maybe worse, a moment of forgetting, and then remembering again.
When I couldn't get back to sleep, I began imagining Kevin McCarthy's plane ride from DC to Florida those few days after Jan 6. He would have rehearsed, polished his just-right humility, decided on the most potent words of flattery, flashed some anger over the stollen election. What I most wonder is could he feel his soul slipping away? As maybe a touch of indigestion, or a slight strain in his back. Or does a soul just go away, silent and unobserved, not made of any earthly matter at all?
The calculation by McCarthy and McConnell, cynical as it may have been, was that had they followed through Trump would have left the Republican party and taken the majority of its voters with him. The party would have permanently splintered and gone the way of the Whigs.
Moscow Mitch, the lizard look-a-like from Kentucky, and Kevin "where must I crawl to next your Maganess" McCarthy, the former poor as a church mouse sleazebag from California, have for so long enjoyed the benefits of sucking on the teat of the Federal government they are without humility. The taste of power and wealth (however wealth might be defined by two individuals who would have found it difficult to find two spare nickels to rub together before they entered politics), has not only left them without a conscience, but they lack even a modicum of decency and dignity. For the two, and many others in Congress just like them, they have placed their need for money and power ahead of the needs of the American people, the very people for whom they work. With the lizard it was marriage and connections. With the church mouse it was marriage and dubious claims of ancestral bloodlines, or other such nonsense that would have kept him out of some of the finest WS clubs. Perhaps church rat is more appropriate. They have on so many occasions, shown exactly what they are, and leaders is what they aren't. The people who support these two clowns are just as culpable as they in their pursuits.
The coverup is always worse than the crime. This is what conspiracy theorists don't understand. Any conspiracy larger than three people and somebody is eventually going to talk.
That $2000 family s just for assumption of debt. I read that Disney pays nearly $100m per year for services from those counties. That money will go poof if Ronny gets his way
Re McCarthy, “So what happens now?”.
In short: more of the same. And worse. Because that’s what happens when there is no requirement to take responsibility for one’s words and actions. At least in GOP politics we now live in a post-accountability era as much as a post-truth one, in which right and wrong are less important than what you can get away with and who has your back. And it is inevitable that each time someone in politics succeeds at wriggling off of a hook -- one that would put you or me in jail, get us fired from our jobs, and cost us the support of people close to us -- it both enables them to do more of the same and inspires others to go down the same pathway in the race to the bottom of what appears to be a bottomless pit.
We’ve seen this show before. Many times now. It never ends well because, unlike with us, they never suffer consequences. It will be an endless loop of moreofthesameness until enough people leave their tribes and come back to the community. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. I’ve been too disappointed in my fellow beings for too long now to hold out any real hope, much less expectation, that their morality somehow will return out of the blue, as if a Hollywood movie ending to a real life shit show.
McCarthy’s lily-livered cynicism will have far less effect on the future of mankind than Manchin’s and Synema’s, who have stood in the way of historic, last-chance legislation over false concerns over small-bore nonsense like “inflation.” Inflation goes up and down, forever. But a person starves and bridges collapse and the earth tips into perpetual warming hell but one time.
Good to see some ‘heroism’ awards still mean something, since the Presidential Medal of Freedom was forever tainted by DJT with the awarding to Limbaugh.
The real problem isn't actually Kevin McCarthy, it's the republican base that's the real problem. As long as the actions of the leadership satisfy the anger and ignorance that the base has, this will get continually worse until the democracy is simply a memory.
I don't like Cheney's politics but by God I respect her for her dedication to the country. But the base of her former party? No, It's disgustingly thoughtless, racist, homophobic and seeks retribution for it's inadequacy to be the best they could ever become. Idiocracy was Prescient as a movie. We'll wallow in the loss of intellect.
But McCarthy? He's really pretty stupid. McConnell on the other hand isn't stupid, he's just disgusting.