Any Old Mike Johnson Will Do
Say congratulations to Republicans: They managed to elect a House speaker.
I joked Tuesday that the GOP would do just as well to ask random citizens at local bars to make a run for the House gavel.
After three weeks of abject chaos that culminated in Tom Emmer dropping his bid just four hours after winning the nomination, it seemed like any generic Tom Jones or Bill Smith stood as good a chance of uniting the farcically fractious caucus as any sitting Republican lawmaker.
In the end, it wasn'
Sadly. having a maniac who is out of step with most Americans elevated to the Presidency no longer deserves the full-on scare quotes that it used to. I suppose that is what passes for progress in American politics these days. “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what sort of maniac this country can survive.”
There was nothing inevitable about the rise of the Nazis, but it happened. The Allies had many opportunities to prevent a German war. The Great Depression could have been avoided, too. Never underestimate the potential for political leaders, owned or supported by their misguided, delusional constituents to precipitate a shitshow of unimaginable proportions
As an election denier I would say that he is not fit for the office. From my perspective the three dozen Republicans that voted to support the illegal and fraudulent state elector scheme should have all been arrested and put in jail. But our government is too liberal.
We could see some God-awful (no pun intended) bills come out of the House now!
I guess it shouldn’t surprise me, but it does; evangelical Christians love Donald Trump.
One hundred plus years ago, they loved the Grand Wizard.
I’m seeing a pattern, here.