You’ll be relieved to know that there is a method to the Republican madness. And you’ll be especially relieved to know that Rudy Giuliani is on top of all this and he’s here to explain it to you.
Yes, Rudy has been consulting on Newsmax and he knows that what you’re seeing is all part of a grand scheme. It only looks like the Keystone Kops, with the GOPers banging into each other and falling down as the successive ballots go by.
But no. That’s not what’s going on. Listen to Rudy tell it, ye of little faith.
Rudy says McCarthy is toast and he thinks the renegades have another stealth candidate they still haven’t revealed yet. pic.twitter.com/sUu72QLS3M
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 4, 2023
I’m with Rudy that McCarthy is toast. See how amazing politics is? I never thought I’d agree with Rudy on anything, beyond perhaps the color of the sky. But we’ve both reached the conclusion that McCarthy is toast.
And he speaks of the stealth candidate! Now, that’s where all my chips have been for two days now, on Bob Good’s mystery miracle man, or woman, but I’m betting it’s a man. I thought it would be Fred Upton.
Maybe that was on the table for a while and then Upton said, “Uh uh, not me. I made the right decision in resigning and it’s out the door and down the road I go.” Who knows?
This is good for laughs.
My prediction for how this Congress plays out: The substantive bills to run the country will be passed by Ds joining with a smallish number of moderate Rs, while the House wingnuts will conduct idiotic investigations and pass culture war garbage that will be DOA in the Senate.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 4, 2023
I concur. I see it that way, too. The government needs to be funded and that will necessitate addressing the issue of the debt ceiling. These will be the legitimate issues of the day and the rest will be Hunter Biden’s laptop.
But first, we need a Speaker and I honestly don’t know where that’s going. I thought Bob Good was going to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Maybe there will be so many ballots that finally, Steve Scalise or some compromise candidate will be found.
Who knows? We walk on historical ground with this one. Only once before since the Civil War has this happened, so your guess is as good as mine.
Of course these are 12th dimensional chess players-to rudy that is. We’re talking about a very silly person who staged a p.r. stunt in front of a landscaping business, who farts in court, and has thrown out not only ALL of his credibility but his ability to practice law as well. The only question remaining is this one: why does anyone, anywhere report what the farting dipshit has to say?
Anyone who did not see this shit-show coming when this session of congress began must have been in a very deep coma for the past couple of months. Everyone with at least the sense G_d gave your average goose had their popcorn ready.
Guessing is all anyone can do at this point. From where I’m sitting I could snort up Don Junior’s entire stash of cocaine and gulp down all his downer pills, take a hundred hits of LSD and chase it with some PCP laced Meth and after all THAT what I’d come up with wouldn’t be as strange as what actually winds up happening! Seriously though, to paraphrase The Grateful Dead we can say of yesterday “What a long, strange day it’s been” and as we move forward with today there’s literally no telling how much stranger things will get. Is it possible some sanity might break out, and the GOP will miraculously coalesce around a super-hard-core conservative (NOT McCarthy) to wield the Gavel? It’s possible. It’s also possible I won the lottery last night. (I should check!) There’s something to be said for Eric Swalwell’s theory that the GOP donor class spent last night slapping some sense into House Republicans and will continue doing so this morning. However, the five critters who’ve led this mess won’t care. And it only takes the five of them to keep McCarthy from winning his dream job. For the moment I think it’s best for Democrats to keep doing what they did yesterday – keep voting for Jeffries and stand aside while the GOP continues to enact political Lord of the Flies.
No idea who Goods’s stealth candidate is. He voted for Biggs in the first round then Jordan in the 2nd and 3rd rounds and Donalds in the 4th, 5th and 6th rounds.