A taste of comeuppance for the legislative ankle biters!
Good news, America! Matt Gaetz is not going to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The blackmailer with the swollen ego, absurdist politics, and dubious ethics got called out. He and the likes of Loren Boebert (Nutcase-Colorado) have been holding a dull knife to Kevin McCarthy’s throat ever since he won the speakership on the 17th vote. They have been threatening to remove McCarthy via a procedure called “vacating the chair” for not kowtowing to their minority.
“If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file the f ‑‑‑ ing motion,” McCarthy told his Republican caucus. Only the Speaker did not speak in hyphens or asterisks.
Boo birds in the back seats can chirp all they want but they aren’t tasked with herding a gaggle of fidgety cats through a close roll-call vote. Not even freshman congressman Derrick Van Orden — a hardcore guy if ever — is willing to elevate Matt Gaetz and Co. or, by default, the Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries. McCarthy is learning that dancing with dunces produces only sore feet and blistered fingers.
Here in Wisconsin, sorehead election deniers like Rep. Janel Brandtjen throw spitballs at Speaker Robin Vos for ending Mike Gableman’s stolen election snipe hunt. Year by year increasing his Republican majority to 64-35 wasn’t enough. (Wisconsin’s legislative maps are not THAT crooked!) The sore loser caucus actually blames Vos for Tim Michel’s defeat!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The problem with the Gaetzes and Brandtjens is they know nothing of small-d democratic governance. Making a majority in a house of 435 (or Wisconsin’s 99) requires consensus building, persuasion, and — swallow hard — compromise. Not ego trips.
4 responses to “Bring it on, tantrum boy!”
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The problem with these big majorities is that they believe they can bully people to accept whatever agenda they want. A “secret panel”? Run by a guy who choked a fellow justice? This is going to be another Gableman mess that will result in nothing but wasted time and money. We all know that this will be 1. Leaked. 2. End up in court. 3. Prove nothing. Now we are to believe that Vos found Jesus and wants to redraw the state maps. He knows this is all BS, but he’s folding to a few nut-bags in his party. J.P. won by 11 points. ELEVEN. That’s a huge statement by the people. Read the tea leaves Vos.
David Prosser did not choke a fellow justice. Ann Walsh Bradley charged at him with fists in the air, backing the man (he is of small stature) into a law book cabinet, whereupon Dave Prosser raised his hands to hold the angry jurist at arms’ length.
that’s the only problem you have with this whole situation?