Fascist Ken Buck Is Now the Voice Of Reason In Jordan Speaker Battle

I keep predicting the demise of the current GOP and the rise of a new conservative party from the ashes but headlining that effort is Ken Buck, who is already a character out of political satire or political crime fiction. But politics is so strange nowadays that maybe it makes sense on some level that a character like Buck would lead a new party, or a new faction of the existing party at the very least.

Buck was hired by Dick Cheney to investigate Iran Contra back in the day, a questionable bona fide, but if it ended there, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But it didn’t. Buck was just getting warmed up. He went on to raid the offices of a local tax preparer because he suspected that illegal aliens were stealing Social Security numbers. The ACLU sued him and that action was ruled unconstitutional.

Then he effectively ended his prosecutorial career when he met with defense attorneys about indicting three men for felonies in a case he thought should not be pursued.^[11][16] Only one of the three men initially indicted on felony charges was convicted, for a misdemeanor offense. Buck was formally reprimanded and required to take an ethics class. Then there was the rape case he refused to prosecute as District Attorney even though the defendant admitted to the rape. The anecdotes go on.

Now here’s a comment Buck made a few days ago and the wording is glaring. Take a look.

That’s way too logical for today’s GOP! Rep. Buck has just bought himself a ticket on the next Kinzinger Express to Cheneyville.

— The 𝗘nd 𝗝ustifies the 𝗠emes (@Upsidasium) October 12, 2023

The moral clarity to RULE? Gee, I thought this was a representative democracy, a constitutional republic, and we elected people to GOVERN. Silly me. And here’s what Buck said this morning.

Rep. Ken Buck: “I think it's really important that the Republican Party state unequivocally that President Trump lost the 2020 election.” pic.twitter.com/DFcIhgXK9M

— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) October 17, 2023

Here’s the rebuttal from right-wingnuttia.

Interesting that Buck didn’t join with Cheney or Kinzinger when he could have, if he felt so strongly about the Big Lie.

Listen, I've lived in Colorado over 25 years now: when Ken fucking Buck is the rational one you know you're party is just a huge pile of shit circling the punchbowl.
Seriously. https://t.co/FLE6MulTJ7

— Roger ZenAF (@RogerZenAF) October 11, 2023

Ken Buck, a Republican member of Congress is playing with fire…

He'll end up facing a super crazy & well funded primary opponent… pic.twitter.com/W12UWUzb7C

— SmackeyCracks 🇺🇸 (@SmackeyCracks) October 13, 2023

Things are getting pretty wild in Trump world right now. Courtesy of Charlie Sykes’ newsletter.

• Eight years ago, former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called then-candidate Donald Trump an “egomaniacal madman”; an “entertaining narcissist… full of foolishness and nonsense”; a “power-hungry shark” who “eats whatever is in front of him”; a “non-serious carnival act”; and “unstable”. Back in 2013, Jindal famously called for the GOP to “stop being the stupid party.”

  Today?

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• On Monday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, endorsed election denying fabulist Kari Lake for a seat in the U.S. Senate. It was her first (but unlikely to be her last) major establishment endorsement. He fawned:
  

  Kari Lake will shine brightly for Arizona. She is a generational communicator who is giving voice to Arizona citizens. Kari Lake is in this race to make Arizona and America stronger.

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And, finally,

• On Monday, one GOP “normie,” “moderate,” and “establishment-type” after another caved to pressure, moving the House GOP to the brink of naming Jim Jordan — a man described by a previous GOP speaker as a “legislative terrorist” — as Speaker of the House, and second in line to the presidency.

And Wagner’s not the only one to flip. So did Michael McCaul and Mike Rogers. Here’s who’s left in the Jordan opposition.

“Reps. Don Bacon (R., Neb.), Ken Buck (R., Colo.), Mario Diaz-Balart (R., Fla.), Carlos Gimenez (R., Fla.), Mike Kelly (R., Pa.) and Mike Lawler (R. N.Y.) That is enough to stop Jordan from being elected speaker, if all Democrats show up and vote for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) and no one changes the math by voting “present.” To win the speakership, a candidate must win a majority of all those voting for an individual,” says the Wall Street Journal.

This will be another historic vote as the House jumps from the frying McCarthy pan into the Jordan fire and self immolates.

The idea of Jordan second in line from the presidency horrifies me. But. as stated before, with Jordan as Speaker, God forbid, we will see a Democratic turnout like to blow your mind in 2024. Maybe that’s the way this goes down. Maybe Jordan fires up the electorate to give back the House to the Democrats and widen the margin of the majority in the Senate.

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