Kevin McCarthy may be in the final days of his speakership. Donald Trump is running away with the Republican nomination. Joe Biden is back to joking about his age. We are getting a major Republican recruit in the battle for the Senate majority later this week.
There’s a lot going on!
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Per: Speaker of the House Issue
With MyKevin in a precarious situation and being pushed by the Clown Caucus of his party, who is in the wings?
Madger the Badger cares not a whit about legislation. She sees her job as pouring gasoline around and then playing with matches. I doubt that she'd take the role, since she'd actually have to perform a job, instead of just media performance.
So then, who in their right mind would take the roll from Republican leadership?
~ Steve Scalise - ill-health again,
~ Elise Stefanick - lives in the shadows to harsh on Biden via social media for everything he does, especially for waking up in the morning. (caveat - no comment on the Biden Bucks coming to the northern tier of New York State)
~ Tom Emmer - assists leadership in managing party's legislative program, since there is no Republican legislative program he has a lot of time on his hands,
~ Gary Palmer - heads Conference forum for policy development. See Emmer.
It's interesting to note that invertebrate MyKevin does show Moxie in the face of being booted because he knows there is no serious contender.
Question - Perhaps best left for Friday's Mailbag: Would it make sense for Hakeem Jeffries, (Dem Minority Leader) to go to the Democratic Caucus and decide which Republican to back and then have those Reps from deep Republican districts...
~ (NC-13) Wiley Nickel R+2 points over the national Republican average
~ (OH-13) Emilia Sykes R+1 points over the national Republican average
~ (PA-07) Susan Wild R+2 points over the national Republican average
~ (PA-08) Matt Cartwright R+4 points over the national Republican average
~ (WA-03) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez R+5 points over the national Republican average
...to vote for their chosen Republican candidate?
John Nance Gardner, one of FDR's veeps, once said the vice presidency wasn't "worth a bucket of warm 'spit.'" So how can anyone say that Kamala Harris is doing a lousy job as vice president when no one can say what exactly a vice president is supposed to do as a good job? And as a second question, how is it possible for a vice president to freelance, as Republicans say Joe Biden did in the Ukraine? Wouldn't any veep who went off on his own against his president find himself exiled to a political life of attending funerals of low-ranking foreign leaders?