I just posted the following at That's Another Fine Mess:
UPDATE: Well, Quiverin’ Qevin did it. He passed his “bill” 217-215, losing only 4 of the 5 he could afford, and benefiting from the absence of some Democrats that lowered the necessary number for his “victory.”
But what did he”win”? He had to give back the tax breaks on ethanol to get the midwestern votes; he had to make the onerous “work requirements” that would require people on Social Security to work not 20 but 30 hours a week to qualify for food assistance under SNAP, to keep the votes of the Taliban 20. He “won” at passign a bill that is DOA in the Senate and even has Republican opponents there. He “won” at a PR event making the GOP even more the crazy, evil, shitheads the public sees them as. He managed to wrap that “crazy evil shitheads” designation around the “Biden 18”, all of whom have targets on their backs and as a result of this vote are more likely to be single-term congressional representatives than the odds said they were yesterday before the vote.
Does he really think this “victory” gives him something to “negotiate” with President Biden? Such a negotiation would depend on Quiverin’ Qevin possessing a “credible threat.” What made Obama negotiate to his detriment in 2011 was that the House and Senate Republicans were united, and really could have fucked things up royally.
Qevin possesses a “bill” that has no future. It is a “threat” that has no ability to threaten. If Qevin is stupid enough to think this piece of toilet paper is something of value, and manages to let the nutballs push us into default, it will take about a week for him to lose power in the House in the aftermath of the default, and for a debt limit to be passed; one that includes killing the need to ever do this vote again. The country will experience real financial pain, and guess who will be blamed for it? Kevin and his merry band of traitors.
The last time the country was mad enough at Republicans to smack them as hard as they will be smacked for having done this - if it happens - was 1932. And it took 20 years for them to recover sufficiently to elect a popular war hero they weren’t actually sure was one of them as president - and Eisenhower was the only “Republican” who could have won. It took another 30 years after that for the memory of their culpability in creating the Great Depression to fade sufficiently that they could compete head-to-head on ideas and win.
Quiverin’ Qevin won’t be thinking this is such a victory when the economic cataclysm he is playing with gets wrapped around his neck by a politician much smarter than he is, and he and his party are strangled with it.
Kevin McCarthy is a joke. I chuckle to myself to see him struggling to get the votes. He wanted to be speaker and sold out to get it, he gave away the store for the power. He crawled back to Trump to get in his good graces again and put party and his own ambitions above the country.
I will confess I kinda am enjoying watching McCarthy pandering and posturing while pursuing an impossible goal. Biden has his line in the sand also. And as you said they can have a stack of GOP approved bills piled at the inbox to the Senate it serves no purpose except to keep running to the Capitol steps with his cadre to bleat some imagined victory over the Ds. OK...I get kicks out of this kind of stuff. His tweets on Twitter...., along with those of his colleagues, are soooooo. far from reality of what is happening it takes mere minutes to fact check them all. You have to give them credit for masterful spinning. Even Mitch McConnell is sending out cringy tweets to try to sound like he has his foot in the game while in reality he might as well take up golf for the rest of the session.
Now that he is Madge "Dude Looks Like A Lady" Greene's poodle, she won't let him go to Mar-a-Largo for a photo-op with the Victim-In-Chief/Sessionist-in-Chief/Defendant-In-Chief.
Remember, he is from Bakersfield, the capital of California Dumbassery. Of which he is a champion dumbass.
Yeah, but McCarthy proved all those doubters who thought he wouldn’t outlast a head of lettuce 🥬 wrong.
OTOH, Nancy Pelosi’s run as Speaker is probably in no danger.
I just posted the following at That's Another Fine Mess:
UPDATE: Well, Quiverin’ Qevin did it. He passed his “bill” 217-215, losing only 4 of the 5 he could afford, and benefiting from the absence of some Democrats that lowered the necessary number for his “victory.”
But what did he”win”? He had to give back the tax breaks on ethanol to get the midwestern votes; he had to make the onerous “work requirements” that would require people on Social Security to work not 20 but 30 hours a week to qualify for food assistance under SNAP, to keep the votes of the Taliban 20. He “won” at passign a bill that is DOA in the Senate and even has Republican opponents there. He “won” at a PR event making the GOP even more the crazy, evil, shitheads the public sees them as. He managed to wrap that “crazy evil shitheads” designation around the “Biden 18”, all of whom have targets on their backs and as a result of this vote are more likely to be single-term congressional representatives than the odds said they were yesterday before the vote.
Does he really think this “victory” gives him something to “negotiate” with President Biden? Such a negotiation would depend on Quiverin’ Qevin possessing a “credible threat.” What made Obama negotiate to his detriment in 2011 was that the House and Senate Republicans were united, and really could have fucked things up royally.
Qevin possesses a “bill” that has no future. It is a “threat” that has no ability to threaten. If Qevin is stupid enough to think this piece of toilet paper is something of value, and manages to let the nutballs push us into default, it will take about a week for him to lose power in the House in the aftermath of the default, and for a debt limit to be passed; one that includes killing the need to ever do this vote again. The country will experience real financial pain, and guess who will be blamed for it? Kevin and his merry band of traitors.
The last time the country was mad enough at Republicans to smack them as hard as they will be smacked for having done this - if it happens - was 1932. And it took 20 years for them to recover sufficiently to elect a popular war hero they weren’t actually sure was one of them as president - and Eisenhower was the only “Republican” who could have won. It took another 30 years after that for the memory of their culpability in creating the Great Depression to fade sufficiently that they could compete head-to-head on ideas and win.
Quiverin’ Qevin won’t be thinking this is such a victory when the economic cataclysm he is playing with gets wrapped around his neck by a politician much smarter than he is, and he and his party are strangled with it.
Careful what you ask for, Qevin, you dumbass.
Kevin McCarthy is a joke. I chuckle to myself to see him struggling to get the votes. He wanted to be speaker and sold out to get it, he gave away the store for the power. He crawled back to Trump to get in his good graces again and put party and his own ambitions above the country.
I will confess I kinda am enjoying watching McCarthy pandering and posturing while pursuing an impossible goal. Biden has his line in the sand also. And as you said they can have a stack of GOP approved bills piled at the inbox to the Senate it serves no purpose except to keep running to the Capitol steps with his cadre to bleat some imagined victory over the Ds. OK...I get kicks out of this kind of stuff. His tweets on Twitter...., along with those of his colleagues, are soooooo. far from reality of what is happening it takes mere minutes to fact check them all. You have to give them credit for masterful spinning. Even Mitch McConnell is sending out cringy tweets to try to sound like he has his foot in the game while in reality he might as well take up golf for the rest of the session.
We all know that MTG is the "real" Speaker, anyway.
Poor MyKevin,
Now that he is Madge "Dude Looks Like A Lady" Greene's poodle, she won't let him go to Mar-a-Largo for a photo-op with the Victim-In-Chief/Sessionist-in-Chief/Defendant-In-Chief.
You are right on target with this column, Chris!