Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line   My ass.

Well, barring an unexpected surprise not foreseeable on the horizon, I’ll turn 66 in a couple of weeks. And every time I say it, I can’t believe I’m actually saying it again, but in some 50 years of being hooked on politics, I have never seen anything like this shit.

The GOP is quickly turning into a national joke, one in extremely bad taste. And just to get you started, here’s how bad it is within the GOP. Even freshman Representative Nancy Mace felt secure enough to take on not only the silliness of George Santos, but also Lauren Boebert, and even Traitor Tot. In an impromptu roast at a GOP House retreat she said,

And so, George Santos, I hate to say this, but you’re embarrassing the GOP. And that’s Lauren Boebert’s job. *pregnant pause* Sorry Lauren, just joking. Don’t shoot! An he lied about playing volleyball in college. Who does that? If you’re going to brag about things you haven’t done, go bold, like saying you won the 2020 election.

And that’s a GOP freshman who already roasted the GOP over their stupidity on the abortion issue. If House Squeaker Cavein McCarthy is having trouble feeling the love, it’s mostly because he isn’t getting any! An why should he? Why would any GOP member respect a Speaker that they knew they could personally drive to his knees with a motion for a vote of no confidence? 

But it’s not just Mace, the whole GOP is imploding. Just look at what has happened in the last week;

  • Biden went into the SOTU and used the GOP House’s own rudeness and rancor to taunt them with their own plans to gut Medicare and Social Security, and then used their boos and taunts about it to force them to stand and applaud when he demanded that Social Security and Medicare be taken off the table for the upcoming debt ceiling fight.
  • Riding high on his Medicare-Social Security spanking, Biden went to battleground Wisconsin to rub Rubber Lips Ron Johnson for his previously recorded stance on putting the entitlements on the chopping block every year. This forced Johnson to yes-sir, yes-sir, three-bags-full about how full of shit Biden was.
  • The next day he went into Rick Skeletor Scott’s backyard in Florida to spread the good word. And as people walked into the auditorium for the rally, there was a leaflet of Senator Scott’s 11 point plan on every seat. Biden almost gleefully led a Sing-Along-With-Mitch of the part that sunsetted Medicare and Social Security after 5 years

Which sent Rick Scott postal, and where we must briefly detour into a quick history lesson. In 2022 Scott was the head of the RSCC, tasked with getting more Republicans elected to the Senate. And in the middle of the campaign he released his 11 point plan for prosperity, which included sunsetting Social security and Medicare after five years. It was so bad that Scott got his ass kicked on FUX News of all places, by a Sunay moderator who wanted to know why he was so brain dead?

To his credit, Moscow Mitch McConnell shit all over the idea from the start. He basically flat out denied that any legislation that affected Social Security and Medicare would automatically be DOA for the GOP Senate caucus. McConnell did this a revenge for Scott daring to challenge him for the Senate Minority Leader role. Scott stewed.

But it turns out that McConnell is just getting started. After Biden’s speech, McConnell once again took to the podium to insist on the Senate GOP’s resistance to any legislation that depleted or eliminated Social Security and Medicare. Which enraged Scott into coming out with a statement that Biden was a liar!, and McConnell was giving him cover. What did Mama Gump say? Stupid is as stupid does.

Which led McConnell to say something that should have sent a chill down Scott’s spine, Senator Scott is up for reelection in 2022, in the state that has the largest population of Social Security and Medicare recipients in the nation. I wish him well in his reelection campaign when he’s pushing programs that would have such a detrimental outcome on his own constituents.

OUCH! I wish him well in his reelection effort translated in political speak to You’re on your own, asshole! While I disagree, McConnell feels that he has a favorable map to reclaim the Senate in 2024. And Scott has been a pain in the ass for McConnell since day one. I read McConnell’s statement to mean that he’ll shadow back a moderate conservative candidate against Scott in 2024, looking to teach Scott a lesson, but feeling that the seat is safe either way.

Look what’s going on here folks. Not only are freshman GOP members of congress dishing on their own compatriots, but the GOP is getting roasted by the Democrats in their early committee hearings. And now you have McConnell slyly threatening a sitting member with a primary challenge if he doesn’t get his shit together. And we haven’t even started on whether McConnell will extract revenge against Josh Hawley for defying his order not to contest the 2020 election results.

The freakin’ GOP is falling apart at every level. You have a GOP House that is always one motion away from a vote of no confidence in their Speaker. and making fun of each other, and a Senate where a newly re elected Senate Minority Leader is ready to clean house. Add to that mega GOP donors who are actively plotting against El Pendejo Presidente in 2024. And lurking in the background is FrankenTrump!. already spreading venom and discord as far as he can.

And the American people? They want more jobs, lower inflation, lower gas prices, and better roads and infrastructure, lower medical and drug costs, better education, and universal pre-k. And who are the only ones speaking to them and their issues, while using committee hearings to show just how feckless and inconsequential the GOP is? The Democrats.

You never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression. The clock is already ticking on 2024, and these are the GOP’s first impressions. My personal prediction? McConnell will pleasure himself by quietly, surreptitiously funding primary challenges against Hawley and Scott, feeling those seats are safe either way. But right now the GOP itself is a dog’s breakfast, and there’s no indication that they can get their shit together and make themselves relevant again. It’s all about Trump and The Big Lie, but the GOP’s own internal jokes show that even they don’t believe that shit. As long as the GOP keeps imploding, all the Democrats need to do is to stand back, throw fuel on the fire, and watch the show.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. I’m hoping McTurtle does primary Scott and Hawley, makes it at least possible for a Dem to have a shot. I have been worrying about Moscow Mitch (MM) for a few years now. He’s supposed to be this great tactician, yet he blew his best shot at getting rid of the Orange Anus permanently via impeachment, especially after Jan 6. Had he taken care of TFG then, he might be Majority Leader now. MM hasn’t gotten anything right since he decided to become obstructionist in chief right after Obama’s election. He failed to hold Obama to one term, failed to rein in his MAGA caucus (Cruz and his gov’t shutdown in 2011) and failed to stand up to TFG. He got his tax cuts and judges, but at what cost? Also, since his reelection in 2020, he hasn’t been looking very healthy. I’ve never seen such a gray complexioned person that is still able to walk.

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    • McConnell has never been the same since he broke his shoulder a few years back…kind of like how Trump never got over nearly dying from COVID. But even before that, I came to regard him as a middle manager at best. Real leadership hasn’t been a thing in this party since W’s departure (though the faction that backed him is now making plays to take back control from the crazies).

      Truth is NONE of the alleged current leaders of this party have the juice to hold it together. McConnell can’t be long for this world and the folks in the ranks are batshit insane. The wilderness awaits.

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      • McConnell has a classic look of heart issues – that puffy face & very shiny skin tell you something not too healthy is going on inside.

  2. Well, you may or may not know what I always say about the gop, FEA! Even the ones that don’t like trump! Here’s the thing, we’ve all been so upended over the last 8 years or there abouts, that when one of them sounds like they’re sane we all applaud. But don’t be fooled, while old style conservatism is far preferable to whatever the hell it is the gop has morphed into today, those people are still the enemies of the average person on the street. They’re anti union/labor, anti environment, and anti regulation for business, banking, and everything else!

    I’m pretty sure they modeled Skeletor’s face off of Rick Scott. That, or they’re twins. What a jackass. But if you thought Florida couldn’t get any worse after him, like myself, you were dead wrong. If something doesn’t change there, and soon, Tallahassee could be the next deployment for the National Guard. Right on the front lawn of the governors mansion! This dude is completely out of control and about as unAmerican as one can get! And they accuse the left of indoctrination!

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