It’s in the early weeks of your last year in junior high. You’ve probably run for a seat on the student council in 7th and 8th grades and won, but now you’re in a contest for president of the student council. You’ve put in your grunt time as a mere vote for two years, which didn’t mean much anyway, because the Big Kids told you how to vote on stuff like a request to fix the sticking hot water faucet in the A Hallway boy’s restroom, or whether to give some kind of greeting card to the 8th grade English teacher everyone hates who’s retiring.
I’m thinking that looks a little desperate. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s clownshow looks like. He actually lost by one more in the 3rd vote than in the first two.
I’ve been saying for awhile that I think Republicans are going to come to blows with each other before this Congress is over. They might want to consider putting those mags back in. There are some seriously deranged people there. Even if and when they get a Speaker there are going to be some serious grudges I would think.
I can’t see how the Republican Party gets back to normal from where they are which seems to be waist deep in the big muddy.
It pissed off a lot of Republicans as well, mostly the ones who're already pissed off at him. But it was a stunning comment that usually falls in the unguarded category. I hate seeing someone humiliated, even Kevin McCarthy who richly deserves it and brought it on himself. You never want anyone to lower themselves to this. What happened to quiet dignity? I realize now I grew up with a lot of pain from a lot of people all around me who bore it with quiet dignity. I miss that.
Same here. I've also been feeling sorry for, even empathizing with, George Santos. His sitting alone with no one around him reminded me of the gatherings I've been to where I knew no one, no one approached me, and I did my best to pretend it didn't matter. IMO the guy needs help of a therapeutic kind, but the entire GOP is enabling him because they need his vote -- but they still won't talk to him in public.
I kinda want gym Jordan as speaker... Let's broadcast out his nonsense everyday why not? Let's keep the Ohio State wrestling team in our thoughts and prayers
I want him to win too but for a mean reason. He is desperate to be on the Judiciary Committee, I believe it is, and he keeps telling everybody he doesn't want to be Speaker. He can't do both so let's make them choose him as Speaker. You can just see what dirty limp grayish white shirt and no tie man wants to do. Treat the country that aren't Freedom Caucusers like the treated his wrestlers who were being molested.
Voting and voting and voting...creeps on this petty pace: and NOTHING gets done until they vote a Speaker in. The poor freshman member families don’t get to participate in the swearing in until then. We never had this kind of drama in Student Council races! Ready the popcorn for tomorrow!
Oh my...Santos is quite the toad! One minute, he’s gay. The next minute, he’s Jewish (Jew-ish). Then he’s got a kid, broke as a joke, and now has money. Is a thief from Brazil but some -how got security clearance to enter the Capitol as a supposed House Rep from NY?? Huh?! Whackadoodle Dandy!
That he showed up just makes you think of all sorts of things. Since he received so much Russian money, you just can't be faulted for wondering what he owes them. If he shows up under this kind of heavy cloud, what does he owe them? Is he afraid of the guy approaching with the English umbrella, or the guy who came with the tea tray, or how about those windows on the 20th floor? Better not get too close to one of those if you owe those guys.
I'm guessing that if he doesn't get the speaker's gavel, he won't wait until after the '24 election to quit the House; he'll go now so he can maximize those speaking fee (stammering fee) bucks. And it will be good riddance.
I can't see him hanging around either after humiliating himself so thoroughly and being unceremoniously rebuffed anyway. Continuing to work with the people he was groveling to would have to be excruciating. Oh, wait—I'm giving him undeserved credit for having some self-respect left.
I think like Trump these guys long ago hung up caring about what they've become in life. But they will get old one day and retired if they live long enough and boy, do you ever start thinking about your life and how it played out.
In their cases, you can only hope some long-forgotten part of their psyche still cares. Thry need a steady barrage of karma to keep them company in old age.
Much as I dislike dictionary defenses, Merriam-Webster online defines psyche as "an immaterial force within a human being thought to give the body life, energy, and power." In these cases, I'd say that force is necessarily present and undeniably evil.
Seems actually like that might be a good set of decisions. Get out and sell yourself somewhere else. After all, you do know about selling yourself to bidders.
Kevin McCarthy earned this humiliation. He tormented President Obama and then President Biden, often saying things that will be remembered by more than a few. Should there be a fourth vote it will be either a Pyrrhic victory thus worthless, or a never to be forgotten loss. If McCarty is smart, he will take a trip in the snow and hide in a hospital for a week or so before resigning to become a dead of an obscure college in California.
So sad, too bad…after all that ass-kissing, you must love that taste of s**t by now, huh, Kev? Was it worth the groveling and bending over backwards? Huh? Poor pookie, all that for nothing…maybe you could go ask Nancy Pelosi how she did it, but then her party is made up of sane people, unlike the GOP…or is it the GQP?
As we all gloat and snicker at the spectacle of an ass kisser getting his kicked as he's brought to his knees, let us pray that by some evil twist of sadism, 2023 begins by surpassing the past few years and Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes speaker. Can you freaking imagine?
Dude, you're freaking everyone out. Would be kinda cool, though. She could designate she be spotlit with Jewish space lasers as she wields a gavel engraved with `MAGA.'
" - do you really want the likes of Boebert and Taylor-Greene and Gosar and the other droolers coming up and pecking at you like ducks for the next two years? "
:-)
First truly great line of 2023! Thanks - I needed that.
Strike Three! Yer OUT! It Casey at the bat, and he whiffs. Its not only the MAGAhats. that are on McCarthy's six o'clock, it's the perception that McCarthy is, and never was up to the job. Kevin McCarthy has no ability to read the room. He's willing to throw away his ability to do the business of the House in an orderly manner in order to placate the extremists within his conference. No one can feel comfortable with that. The more Kevin gave away, the less competent he was perceived. At some point he reaches his tipping point where his erstwhile followers come to realize that their prerogatives are being bargained away. At some point, it's every man for himself. Overnight, I would expect to see a hardening of sentiment against McCarthy, because Democrats, unlike Republicans, have a solid phalanx against McCarthy, and have a solid record of accomplishment. How often have we seen candidates lose their aura of inevitability, and then crash and burn. It happens all the time.
Postscript: It's easy to imagine the congressional Republicans as a group of preschoolers fighting over a toy that everyone wants for themselves alone. These are the consequences of tolerating bad behavior, and it won't end until meaningful discipline is imposed on them. The spectacle of yesterday's fiasco must be unnerving to ordinary people watching the proceedings, and a solid phalanx of Democratic lawmakers voting unanimously for their newly elected leader Hakeem Jeffries, while the nominally dominant Republicans continued to wrangle with their intransigent Freedom Caucus minority, a group of radicals amounting to fewer than ten percent of their membership. Not their best moment. If this is what the next two years will be like, a lot of Republican voters are going to regret their electoral choices in the last election. How long this impasse will go on is anybody's guess; but it's already demonstrated the Republicans' dysfunctional approach to everything they touch.
Kevin is toast. And the longer he hangs in there the more ridiculous he makes himself. His overpowering sense of entitlement, however, is clouding his judgment, assuming he has any. Learning to take no for an answer is part of being an intelligent adult, but he seems to have missed that message for not being either. I don’t know the rules for selecting a Speaker, but Gym Jordan supported McCarthy, but didn’t decline to run against him. Was he not allowed to? I don’t think you can elect a Speaker who doesn’t want to serve. Or so I would think. Well, maybe he does want the job, and his support of McCarthy was phony. But is he acceptable to 217 others? I hope this soap opera has a long run, at least to sometime around Easter. That would stop malign and vengeance investigations, and let the investigations/indictments of the previous administration, and the mango moron become the media frenzy. No matter who becomes Speaker, assuming it’s a Rethug, there’s no intention to do any legislating, only performative hyjincks for the benefit of MAGA world. Also if there is a long delay all the Representatives, not having been sworn in, presumably wouldn’t get paid. That would be it’s own circus, and make them decide on someone so they’d get a paycheck. What fun.
Haha, all good Lucian, but the last line was the best "On the plus side, you’ll never have to grovel at the feet of the Thief of Mar a Lago ever again."
“I earned this job.”
I’m thinking that looks a little desperate. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s clownshow looks like. He actually lost by one more in the 3rd vote than in the first two.
I’ve been saying for awhile that I think Republicans are going to come to blows with each other before this Congress is over. They might want to consider putting those mags back in. There are some seriously deranged people there. Even if and when they get a Speaker there are going to be some serious grudges I would think.
I can’t see how the Republican Party gets back to normal from where they are which seems to be waist deep in the big muddy.
It pissed off a lot of Republicans as well, mostly the ones who're already pissed off at him. But it was a stunning comment that usually falls in the unguarded category. I hate seeing someone humiliated, even Kevin McCarthy who richly deserves it and brought it on himself. You never want anyone to lower themselves to this. What happened to quiet dignity? I realize now I grew up with a lot of pain from a lot of people all around me who bore it with quiet dignity. I miss that.
Same here. I've also been feeling sorry for, even empathizing with, George Santos. His sitting alone with no one around him reminded me of the gatherings I've been to where I knew no one, no one approached me, and I did my best to pretend it didn't matter. IMO the guy needs help of a therapeutic kind, but the entire GOP is enabling him because they need his vote -- but they still won't talk to him in public.
. . . with the big fools saying "Push on" in multiple directions
I kinda want gym Jordan as speaker... Let's broadcast out his nonsense everyday why not? Let's keep the Ohio State wrestling team in our thoughts and prayers
I want him to win too but for a mean reason. He is desperate to be on the Judiciary Committee, I believe it is, and he keeps telling everybody he doesn't want to be Speaker. He can't do both so let's make them choose him as Speaker. You can just see what dirty limp grayish white shirt and no tie man wants to do. Treat the country that aren't Freedom Caucusers like the treated his wrestlers who were being molested.
Voting and voting and voting...creeps on this petty pace: and NOTHING gets done until they vote a Speaker in. The poor freshman member families don’t get to participate in the swearing in until then. We never had this kind of drama in Student Council races! Ready the popcorn for tomorrow!
That reminds me that I was wondering earlier how McCarthy is going to sleep tonight. I’m thinking probably with a high blood alcohol content.
I barely drink anymore but after enduring a day where they vote time after time to squash you, I believe I would drink until I was blotto.
and any suckers who paid santos for a (otherwise free) seat are *very* unlikely to get a refund from him
maybe get a refund-ish
😃👏🏼👏🏼
Buh-bye Kevin. Did you see George Santos being questioned by reporters and he ends up at a dead end in the basement and has to turn around? -- https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lying-rep-elect-santos-arrives-164459432.html Additionally, he may be a deadbeat dad -- https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/01/02/opinion-liar-george-santos-is-now-accused-of-also-being-a-deadbeat-dad-and-should-not-be-seated/ Worst first day at school ever!
Oh my...Santos is quite the toad! One minute, he’s gay. The next minute, he’s Jewish (Jew-ish). Then he’s got a kid, broke as a joke, and now has money. Is a thief from Brazil but some -how got security clearance to enter the Capitol as a supposed House Rep from NY?? Huh?! Whackadoodle Dandy!
That he showed up just makes you think of all sorts of things. Since he received so much Russian money, you just can't be faulted for wondering what he owes them. If he shows up under this kind of heavy cloud, what does he owe them? Is he afraid of the guy approaching with the English umbrella, or the guy who came with the tea tray, or how about those windows on the 20th floor? Better not get too close to one of those if you owe those guys.
The latest is that George is saying he was sworn in as a member of Congress today. No one was sworn in today. He is delusional.
I believe he or his staff posted that on his website in expectation that it would happen as scheduled. When it didn't, the page was taken down.
I'm guessing that if he doesn't get the speaker's gavel, he won't wait until after the '24 election to quit the House; he'll go now so he can maximize those speaking fee (stammering fee) bucks. And it will be good riddance.
I can't see him hanging around either after humiliating himself so thoroughly and being unceremoniously rebuffed anyway. Continuing to work with the people he was groveling to would have to be excruciating. Oh, wait—I'm giving him undeserved credit for having some self-respect left.
I think like Trump these guys long ago hung up caring about what they've become in life. But they will get old one day and retired if they live long enough and boy, do you ever start thinking about your life and how it played out.
In their cases, you can only hope some long-forgotten part of their psyche still cares. Thry need a steady barrage of karma to keep them company in old age.
Crap!? D’you think they have psyches?
Thank you for telling me. Somehow I thought it meant you might have a soul as well. Silly me.
Souls? Right, Christina—not those bozos.
Much as I dislike dictionary defenses, Merriam-Webster online defines psyche as "an immaterial force within a human being thought to give the body life, energy, and power." In these cases, I'd say that force is necessarily present and undeniably evil.
That's what they need, what they will likely get is a horrific safari into delirium.
Seems actually like that might be a good set of decisions. Get out and sell yourself somewhere else. After all, you do know about selling yourself to bidders.
Kevin McCarthy earned this humiliation. He tormented President Obama and then President Biden, often saying things that will be remembered by more than a few. Should there be a fourth vote it will be either a Pyrrhic victory thus worthless, or a never to be forgotten loss. If McCarty is smart, he will take a trip in the snow and hide in a hospital for a week or so before resigning to become a dead of an obscure college in California.
Can you imagine having to work with some of these folks after this?
Umm…. a “dead” of an obscure college? Dean, maybe?🤡
Maybe a deadhead at an obscure college in California, like, after he drops some acid, man.
So sad, too bad…after all that ass-kissing, you must love that taste of s**t by now, huh, Kev? Was it worth the groveling and bending over backwards? Huh? Poor pookie, all that for nothing…maybe you could go ask Nancy Pelosi how she did it, but then her party is made up of sane people, unlike the GOP…or is it the GQP?
Awww, poor fella. And he won't even finish with a Participation Award.
Always a bridesmaid!
If I could create a meme, a perfect theme.
What's the old saying?
"If you try to please everybody, nobody will like you."
As we all gloat and snicker at the spectacle of an ass kisser getting his kicked as he's brought to his knees, let us pray that by some evil twist of sadism, 2023 begins by surpassing the past few years and Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes speaker. Can you freaking imagine?
Dude, you're freaking everyone out. Would be kinda cool, though. She could designate she be spotlit with Jewish space lasers as she wields a gavel engraved with `MAGA.'
That's one of the most repugnant fascinating scenarios ever. Freaking is a good word to connect with thinking about this.
Dear Lord!😮
Kev baby. Another pathetic repiglican loser.
" - do you really want the likes of Boebert and Taylor-Greene and Gosar and the other droolers coming up and pecking at you like ducks for the next two years? "
:-)
First truly great line of 2023! Thanks - I needed that.
Strike Three! Yer OUT! It Casey at the bat, and he whiffs. Its not only the MAGAhats. that are on McCarthy's six o'clock, it's the perception that McCarthy is, and never was up to the job. Kevin McCarthy has no ability to read the room. He's willing to throw away his ability to do the business of the House in an orderly manner in order to placate the extremists within his conference. No one can feel comfortable with that. The more Kevin gave away, the less competent he was perceived. At some point he reaches his tipping point where his erstwhile followers come to realize that their prerogatives are being bargained away. At some point, it's every man for himself. Overnight, I would expect to see a hardening of sentiment against McCarthy, because Democrats, unlike Republicans, have a solid phalanx against McCarthy, and have a solid record of accomplishment. How often have we seen candidates lose their aura of inevitability, and then crash and burn. It happens all the time.
Postscript: It's easy to imagine the congressional Republicans as a group of preschoolers fighting over a toy that everyone wants for themselves alone. These are the consequences of tolerating bad behavior, and it won't end until meaningful discipline is imposed on them. The spectacle of yesterday's fiasco must be unnerving to ordinary people watching the proceedings, and a solid phalanx of Democratic lawmakers voting unanimously for their newly elected leader Hakeem Jeffries, while the nominally dominant Republicans continued to wrangle with their intransigent Freedom Caucus minority, a group of radicals amounting to fewer than ten percent of their membership. Not their best moment. If this is what the next two years will be like, a lot of Republican voters are going to regret their electoral choices in the last election. How long this impasse will go on is anybody's guess; but it's already demonstrated the Republicans' dysfunctional approach to everything they touch.
The problem is, High School isn't just a metaphor for Congress, it's the model.
Jr High...
Kevin is toast. And the longer he hangs in there the more ridiculous he makes himself. His overpowering sense of entitlement, however, is clouding his judgment, assuming he has any. Learning to take no for an answer is part of being an intelligent adult, but he seems to have missed that message for not being either. I don’t know the rules for selecting a Speaker, but Gym Jordan supported McCarthy, but didn’t decline to run against him. Was he not allowed to? I don’t think you can elect a Speaker who doesn’t want to serve. Or so I would think. Well, maybe he does want the job, and his support of McCarthy was phony. But is he acceptable to 217 others? I hope this soap opera has a long run, at least to sometime around Easter. That would stop malign and vengeance investigations, and let the investigations/indictments of the previous administration, and the mango moron become the media frenzy. No matter who becomes Speaker, assuming it’s a Rethug, there’s no intention to do any legislating, only performative hyjincks for the benefit of MAGA world. Also if there is a long delay all the Representatives, not having been sworn in, presumably wouldn’t get paid. That would be it’s own circus, and make them decide on someone so they’d get a paycheck. What fun.
hold my beer
need to get more popcorn
The Repugs make Congress look like Nevermore, the school for antisocial outcasts.
Absolutely pathetic.
Troglodytes and barbarians.
Haha, all good Lucian, but the last line was the best "On the plus side, you’ll never have to grovel at the feet of the Thief of Mar a Lago ever again."
This is kind of fun shou
are you channelling ed sullivan, RE?
"with a really fun shou tonite"
Haha, Good old Ed. That's funny, Ln Em