Revenge Of The Nerd! McCarthy Plotting An Underground Comeback?

God I love this sh*t! Days like today I’d almost do it for free. What ever happened to the good old days of GOP gracious losers? Former President Gerald Ford didn’t even serve an entire term, got turfed out, and went back to Michigan and shut up. Former President George HW Bush got ousted after one term, went back home to Texas, and ended up making a solid friendship and humanitarian partnership with the guy who beat him.

But that was before the Supreme Rule of MAGA, Never lose! And if you do, Never admit it! There has never been a single term President who didn’t take his spanking, and go home and shut up. But not Traitor Tot. He still refers to himself as President, even when he’s under both federal as well as Georgia state indictment for voter fraud. And far right whack-a-mole Kari Lake in Arizona is still proclaiming 11 months later that she’s actually the rightful Governor of Arizona. Which, if true, would make her ineligible to run for the US Senate next year. You can’t have it both ways, babe.

Which brings us to humiliated former Squeaker of the House, Cave-In McCarthy. I’m seriously starting to think that McCarthy may have some serious, submissive, pseudo sexual problems to deal with. After all, how much abject public humiliation can one man take?

Bratty Matty Matt Gaetz and his Dirty Dozen put McCarthy through 15 excruciating rounds of national humiliation before finally handing him the Speaker’s gavel, along with his choker chain and ball gag. And once McCarthy had the gavel, Gaetz was a constant pain in his ass, threatening to oust him more times than I threatened all four of my daughters with no dessert. And finally he pulled the plug on him.

In the aftermath of his ouster, the first in the history of the House, McCarthy faced a hallway full of reporters, and faced the music. He whined piteously of course, and then told the assembled piranha pool that he would not place his name in nomination for the Speakership again. I have often said said that McCarthy was a creepy, amoral, spineless jellyfish, but I never said that he wasn’t a consummate  politician. And this blather was pitch perfect.

Because the Gaetz fueled, Freedom caucus House party is f*cked. Sideways. No matter how much Fratty Matty Gaetz may hate it, simple math still applies. 12-210. And in his brainless thirst for McCarthy humiliation and ultimately demolition, Gaetz burned so many bridges that he couldn’t even cross a koi pond without getting wet up to his knees. And there’s no way that the Freedom caucus can cobble together an alliance to 218 without giving up everything that gave them their power in the first place.

Here’s the McGuffin. In his statement to the media, McCarthy emphatically stated that he would not put his name forward in nomination for the Speakership again. Who Cares?! That’s the beauty of the scam, and where McCarthy has Gaetz by the old-short-and curlies. Because McCarthy doesn’t have to place his name in nomination.

According to the House rules, any sitting member may place a name on the floor in nomination, and as long as that name is seconded, it will appear on the ballot for the floor vote. Remember how much fun Gaetz and Scalise had in choosing different place keeper names on the ballot to garner the same 20 votes to humiliate McCarthy and deprive him of the gavel?

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. At some point, Gaetz and the Freedom caucus are going to have to go to the floor, and put a name forth in candidacy for Speaker. And when they do that, the wheels fall of the bus. Because all it takes is for one McCarthy loyalist to place McCarthy’s name in nomination, and another to second it, and McCarthy’s name is on the ballot to be voted on from the floor. And that’s it. With the GOP moderate caucus outrage over the ransacking of McCarthy, there’s no way that the Freedom caucus candidate can win. And with Gaetz’s hatred for McCarthy for not making his ethics violations investigation go away, there’s no way McCarthy can win.

I swear to God, I’ve never seen anything like this in my 66+ years on the planet. And they can’t d*ck around. Pressure is going to be building daily for passing aid for Israel, as well for Ukraine, and we’re 34 days from another government shutdown. Once the Freedom caucus finally puts a name to the floor in nomination, it’s a Godsmack mosh pit. And I honestly don’t see any way it’s solved other than 20 or so moderates cutting a deal with the Democrats for a power sharing agreement. Don’t touch that dial.