A pattern is forming. It’s been forming for quite some time. A lot of Republicans are fed up with the state of the Republican party. January 6 was a watershed moment. Liz Cheney was nuts enough to vote twice for Donald Trump but at least she woke up that day. Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy likewise had a moment of clarity, but then went right back to their Trump addiction. Adam Kinzinger saw the scene for what it was.
You all know the story and the various names. The insurrection was the attraction of 2021 and the attraction of 2023 and early 2024 is the madcap Biden impeachment improvisation in the House of Representatives, whereupon it has been insisted that Joe Biden is guilty of some high crime and misdemeanor. They can’t find one, they’ve had something like 40 fact witnesses and nada, nothing, rien de tout, but still they bluster and peacock that the next testimony will be the *eureka* moment, and then they’ll nail Biden to the floor. Now the yous and mes have watched this with a mixture of amusement and contempt but would you believe Trey Gowdy, Mr. Benghaaaazi, also feels that way? This will blow your mind.
This is like SNL parody. https://t.co/nkpBPrw8FC
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) March 25, 2024
You heard it, friends. Unless we’re all collectively locked in the same dream and believe me, that thought has occurred to me many times over the past eight years. Gowdy actually said that nobody who could pass a cognitive test would be crazy enough to run for House Speaker.
And his obvious contempt of Mike Johnson I found noteworthy. This is a scream. As the Book of Matthew tells us, “A House divided amongst itself cannot stand.” There is virtually a war going on in the House and in the GOP. This is the house (and House) that Trump built. These are the clowns that perform in the House that Trump built.
Did you catch this act of fraternal love?
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul to GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, on a hot mic: “Ah, go fuck yourself.” pic.twitter.com/VYJ07tzRzV
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 19, 2024
It just gets worse on a daily basis. But I do love this mashup of Jamie Raskin telling them all what for this past week before Comer Pyle finally gave up the ghost and agreed that criminal referrals were the only way to go.
Jamie Raskin’s sarcasm is wonderful. He rides the perfect, razor-thin edge of being completely professional and also letting the world know that the Republicans and this farce of theirs are completely full of shit.
We saw a lot of entertainment last week and last year for that matter. But I must say throughout all of it, if you had told me that Trey Gowdy would chime in negatively, let alone sarcastically, that I would have strained to believe.
A new GOP has to form. Or some conservative party with a new name. This is not sustainable. This is ludicrous to the max.
But that said, get ready for a week that could eclipse all this. It’s already Monday the 25th as I write, on the east coast. Trumpty Dumpty must rise from his bed in several hours and board his plane to New York, before the thing gets seized as an asset.
We know that Letitia James will move on liquid assets first, so we’re going to find out if Trump has half a billion dollars lying around as he said he did. Or, let the games begin. And Trump Force One could be seized. Wouldn’t that be comical if Trump didn’t have a way to jet around the country and had to stand in line to hop a Southwest or Frontier flight? I wonder how that works, he and the Secret Service agents buy a block of seats and hope that they’re not near some screaming kid throwing crackers at Trump?
Then Melania won’t campaign with him for sure. She’s not going to sit in the cabin with some housewife in a moo moo and flip flops and her old man in his cargo shorts and tee shirt — even if the tee shirt says, “I suffer from PTSD, Pretty Tired Of Stupid Democrats, Trump 2024.” Especially that. The last thing she wants is to socialize with her hubby’s cult fanatics. Wanna bet?
Gowdy is one of the clowns responsible for the current g.o.p.’s dysfunction-his benghazi bull-sh*t was no different than the President Biden impeachment fiasco and it really did set the stage for hearings for theatrical purposes only. For him bitch about it now is, as is the usual case with the ‘pubes, incredibly hypocritical.
Minor correction, Ursula: “housewife in a moo moo . . . .”
The word is “muumuu” (and one word, not two). Ironically, that all-too Hawaiian piece of clothing was introduced by Christian missionaries who felt that the native Hawaiian women were showing off way too much skin (even the “plus-size” ladies) and so they had to be taught “modesty” by wearing a small tent.
Leave it to the religious police to squash a good thing.
Trey has the oddest hair a close second to Trump. That Pompidour looks like he is trying out for Saturday Night Fever : Senior Citizens.