You know, if you forget the humiliation of having to spend 8-10 hours a day for four straight days sitting in the well of the House, while the same 30 snakes kept rubbing your nose in your political impotence, for the last 107 days has been a bowl of cherries for House Squeaker Cavein McCarthy.
Because McCarthy went in having already discovered the secret sauce to being House Squeaker in the insane world of MAGA. Here’s the secret. All he has to do is act like a lazy mother with a house full of unruly preschoolers.
You want a whole bag of snack size Snickers for breakfast? Here ya go. You want to use that sugar high to use the sofa for a trampoline and swing from the chandelier like Tarzan? You want to throw your asparagus on the floor in a dinner temper tantrum? Hell, at least they clean up easy. And of course you can have dessert. Whatever.
And if you look at the last 107 days, that’s exactly how McCarthy has acted, and exactly the way it’s gone. The only bills that the GOP led House has passed in the new term are a bunch of red meat trophy bills that have no chance of even getting a hearing on the floor of the Senate. Which is fine with Cavein. Because not only is he weak, cowardly, and gutless, he’s also soulless enough to admit that he can get away with this because everybody in politics predicted it would happen. How Much more MAGA can you get? Promises made, promises kept.
But after 107 idyllic days, it’s finally time to pull those big boy pants up and actually whip the caucus into getting something useful done. But the problem is that McCarthy is so pathetic that he can’t even whip up cream if he uses a mixer. He doesn’t want it to smoke at him and catch his fingers in the blades.
After literally months of d*cking around with vague threats, half *ss teases, challenges to Biden, and Salome’s Dance of the 99 Veils, McCarthy finally released his comprehensive proposal to raise the debt ceiling. That is if you can call something that calls for hundreds of billions of spending cuts, but no specific programs to cut comprehensive, then Good on ya. mate!
And it’s not going over well. After everything McCarthy has done for these spoiled brats, is it too much to ask for them to play pocket Hitler on this one issue? Apparently so, since reporting today says that McCarthy doesn’t have the votes in his own caucus going into a proposed floor vote net week. Which can mean only one thing. McCarthy throws a Trumper tantrum, and threatens that if he doesn’t get his way, he’ll do a Thelma and Louise and drive the full faith and credit of the United States, along with the economy right off the cliff.
There’s just one thing McCarthy is missing. It’s not the Freedom Caucus delinquents that are causing the problem. And why would they? They already know that they hold the leash on McCarthy’s choker collar, and they can rein him in whenever they want.
No, McCarthy’s problem is the one I predicted 107 days ago. It’s the 28-30 moderate conservative members from swing districts whose feathers are the most ruffled with this nonsense. So far they’ve mostly gone along with the MAGAt’s trophy bills, because it’s not costing them anything at home.
But now the sh*t is getting real. Because their constituents didn’t send them to Washington to be ideological sycophants, they sent them there to get fundamental stuff done! And tanking their 401k’s by feeding the US economy to the alligators wasn’t one of them. And in this moment of peril for McCarthy, they hold all the power.
Because the Freedom Caucus didn’t trust the turncoat McCarthy as far as they could throw him, they forced him to agree to a secret codicil that allows a single member of either party to call for a floor vote to vacate the Chair, and force a new Chair fight. Right now McCarthy doesn’t have to worry about the Freedom caucus, because he’s a good little puppy, but any one of the moderates can put him in the hurt locker, and several of them are already signaling that they have no interest in voting for a debt ceiling bill that has no chance of passing the Senate.
But because it’s McCarthy, of course it gets worse. The GOP moderates don’t even have to kick McCarthy from the floor in McCarthy will of course stuff it in a drawer. Until a Democratic member puts a discharge petition on the floor. Presuming the Democrats are unified, it would only take eight moderate GOP House members to force the vote on the floor, although the more that sign on, the more air cover it gives to everybody. And those moderate members wouldn’t buck the party to sign the discharge petition only to turn around and vote against the resolution on the floor.
Mike McCarthy is like a Vegas local who wins a $1200 jackpot on a video poker machine, and then signs up for a seat at the World Series of Poker. McCarthy is in so far over his head he can’t even see the surface anymore. But McCarthy, and the Freedom caucus’s craven stupidity is the salvation of the country. They gave us an out.
From your opening statement, he just cannot be as dumb as he looks. Well, he is, but it just does seem impossible lol!
President Biden must insist on lowering the American tax payer contribution to natural disasters to 50% to solve the “deficit”. States must “bootstrap” themselves to solvency without the American taxpayers footing the bill. Especially the “no tax” and the republiCLOWN “governed” states….
Learn the history of FEMA and federal law that has governed it from its inception (during the Carter administration) – what you suggest can’t be done without rewriting a crucial piece of federal law. Do you really think it’s a good idea to open up THAT can of worms?
This would certainly scare the dickens out of a bunch of red states currently, and in the foreseeable future, in the line of fire climate/weather disaster-wise. Or it will the 1st time they get the bill.
If McCartoon have any shread of decency & integrity left in him; he should resign as speaker to shake out the “Freedom Chaotic Caucus” that took his soul and dignity hostage to regain his credibility. But ambitious as he is; he is encumbered to “The Crazy” lunacy of the undisciplined, uncultured trumpian insurrectionist; much to the demise of our National Democracy
Mike McCarthy?
Well Mike and Jerry are usually playing dice with the boys and rolling snake eyes or boxcars (?) been awhile… murf meant Kevin Cavein McCarthy. Poor imitation of Joseph McCarthy. Hmmm well the not sane one from Wisconsin… brain is joining very tired body.
Well, I don’t know about the freedom caucus. Old Jimmy Jordan is getting his a$$ handed to him everyday. There’s just too many smart Democrats on his committee. He thought he could take his side show up to New York and just run over the New York judicial system. Guess what? They came pretty dam close to running his a$$ out of town on a rail. He thinks he finally won but what the moron doesn’t get is yeah sure he can ask all the questions he wants. But Pomerantis will have a official DOJ attorney sitting next to him going through the book to see if he can answer that question. Now in the Senate, not to change the subject. But I was watching teddy Cruz trying to play hardball with some witnesses in the senate this afternoon or I guess now yesterday afternoon. Anyway old teddy was throwing hardballs but some moron was catching them and setting them on a t-ball stand. I mean poor old teddy was just flat frustrated with these witnesses and it actually went downhill from there. So I can only imagine Hot Head Jordan having to talk to a lawyer to get his answers. The boy is going to come unglued. And like a couple of other people. Why you going to interview a prosecutor that had built a credible case against your client. Because everything he says is going to go in the congressional record and they already have enough to put Trump away for the rest of his life. Which they will probably misplace on the way back to DC. I keep saying that they haven’t ever heard of be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Seems to me, these guys are going for adjoining cells. And I was wondering. Had a weird dream about staying in a motel where you had two rooms using the same bathroom. I haven’t travelled much for awhile but I think they fixed that where you could go from room to room.