Man that was quick, but you heard it here first. Earlier this morning MSNBC had a sane moderate GOP incumbent on. This one was straight arrow, he’s even a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus. And his hair was on fire.
He was uber pissed at the Democrats for doing the heavy lifting on getting McCarthy off the plank, but we were puny spuds to him. When asked what he would have to hear in order to vote for a new Speaker, he was blunt and to the point, I’m not voting for anybody for Speaker until I’m assured that the first new order of business will be to expel Matt Gaetz from the GOP conference. And the second order of business will be to fix the rules so that they can’t pull this stunt again.
Whoa! Talk about a sore loser. rankly I’m a little leery of the intelligence of these McCarthy supporters. They’re blaming the Democrats for delivering the votes for Gaetz, and I’ll get to that bullsh*t in a moment. But what they’re ignoring is that after they pledged their support to McCarthy, he turned around and stabbed them in the backs cutting sleazy deals with Gaetz. Fool me once, shame on you. But then this afternoon I saw serial hedonist and loser Newt Gingrich on FUX News, and he too was calling for Gaetz’s head on a silver platter, Salome style.
I told you guys yesterday that this sh*t would happen. The McCarthy supporters in the House are desperate to blame the Democrats, like we regularly cross the aisle en masse to save the biggest serial liar since Traitor Tot. The problem is the math. The final tally yesterday was 218-212. There were 210 Democrats that voted to remove McCarthy, but the magic number was 215. The Democrats couldn’t engineer the ouster of McCarthy if the moderate caucus had done a better job of whipping votes. I wrote yesterday that there were about a half a dozen imbeciles who voted with Gaetz in return for a seat at the Cool Kids Table. I think those idjits are about to find that the Cool Kids table is on an ice floe in the Bering Straits.
The moderate GOP caucus may be late to the party, but I’m starting to think that maybe they brought pizza. It’s not like these quivering slobs are profiles in courage or anything. As long as it was McCarthy taking the direct incoming from Gaetz, they were perfectly happy to sit back and cheer him on, rather than learn to sleep with their eyes open. Only after McCarthy fell on his sword did the rest of his caucus realize it was about to be open season on them.
And guess what? They discovered remedial math! They seem to have finally discovered something that the rest of us have known since somewhere around 3rd grade, 212 is equal to or greater than 10. And that’s the current functional equation for the GOP caucus.
And they’re already talking about getting their revenge. After all, there’s nothing a bunch of cowards love more than a chance for a pile on. And 212-10 sounds like just about perfect odds for them. And they’re about to get payback by attaching their votes for Speaker on a guarantee of a floor vote to expel Gaetz from the party, and reforming the rules so a handful of pirates can’t just take over the whole damn Caribbean again.
How stupid is Matt Gaetz? He’s so stupid that he’s literally fighting Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership battle through the looking glass. In January, McCarthy had 210 votes out of 218 in the barrel. And Gaetz made him debase himself through 14 rounds of voting to get those last 5 votes, enough GOP reps voting present to knock the magic number from 218 down to 215.
This dirty deed will belong to Gaetz and Gaetz alone. Most other GOP members are already running from Gaetz like the kid with the cooties. McCarthy had 210 votes and needed 8-10. Gaetz is starting this grand farce with 8-10 far right votes, and is running around begging for 210 moderate GOP votes! Good luck with that, since some of those 210 are already calling for Gaetz’s head on a pike in return for their vote on any new Speaker.
Frankly I don’t see any way that Gaetz remains in the GOP House conference. He got way too far out over her siis, and now he’s cartwheeling down the mountain. 210-10. Maybe that’s why Machine Gun Markie and Pistol Packin’ Lauren kept their powder try and voted NO. 210 pissed off moderates are going to want a sacrificial lamb, and Gaetz is the one who gladly hoisted the mantle of Torquemada in the Spanish Inquisition of McCarthy. That would likely cost Gaetz his committee assignments, and GOP letterhead. And if the Ohio GOP wipes him from the ballot, he’d better crank up his signature petition troops most riki-tik.
I’ll close with this. Keep one thing in mind, any member of the House can place a name in nomination for Speaker of the House. There are 12 moderate GOP incumbents running for reelection in districts that Biden won in 2020. Gaetz can’t get 210 votes to install a new Speaker, nor will he willingly give up either his position, nor his rules power for the moderates to elect a Speaker. I’m looking at the House Problem Solvers Caucus to be the quiet back channel for negotiations between GOP moderates and Jeffries’s management team. This is going to get weird.
I’m reminded of the Canada On Strike episode of South Park. The new PM convinces the country to go “on strike” and the world blows them off. In the end they get a bit of candy for everyone and a “second meal of equal or lesser price” from Bennigan’s. At the celebration dance the PM throws Terrence and Phillip burst in and point out what it all actually COST Canada and they go “full Canadian” and take them out on the ice and chip away and “cast them adrift.” I think the GOP would like to do rather more to Gaetz.