The Wile E Coyote party. A national embarrassment, but if the last 6 plus years show there isn't a bottom to Republican embarrassment or shame. We have one of our two national parties that cannot govern themselves let alone the country. They have no real policy prescription no real policy just rage, cruelty and stupidity. But let's not blame the elected representatives let's place it at the feet of the American voter. They in the end voted for this circus.
I am enjoying this so much even though i know it is temporary. Too bad that there is not a Tip O'Neil type Democrat that could maneuver support from six Republicans and take the Speakers gavel. Every Republican Speaker from Gingrich, De Ley (remember that scumbag) to Boehner and Ryan either engineered or enabled this shit show. Everything else is, well, What Lucian said.
Since Newt came along this is the R Congress they've built with pride. A bunch of hard line do nothings more interested in clicks and photo ops than actual policy making or legislating. They want more Benghazi style hearings. Thank God they didn't take the Senate too!
Yesterday I was feeling sorry for a couple of them. Somebody needs to do something dramatically different now for that, like drop out and see who else the Republicans have to offer, or something.
This is the problem: They don't have much. The handful with brains, ability, and backbone have either left the stage or been pushed off it. I've been saying they don't have a deep bench; now I wonder if they have any bench at all.
i think most of us, with the exception of ones with occasional wilting hearts, bask in the warm glow of schadenfreude. and smile.
that "poor schlub" (love this) thought he could shmooze and read the room but fell short when a few of the sharks he was swimming with could smell blood in the weak red wave
"weaponized shamelessness" - perfection in word selection. Let's all watch as the Acme blunderbusses explode in their collective faces like a Road Runner vs. Coyote cartoon
I disagree...I think Ted Cruz is much closer to Wile E. (hasn't Michael Cohen actually managed to sorta "rehabilitate?"). I don't think Wile E. had any kids (if he did, he was an absentee parent), unlike TC, the scumbag.
I like hearing this and I hate hearing this. The chaos and upset are still there. No resolution to the last six years of unleashed Trump quality Congress critters yet but I'm hoping this will be just horrific enough for voters as this goes on and on adding to the last six years that they will finally say, you know what, this is NOT what we wanted. And about that debt ceiling, unless McCarthy agrees to not raise that, he hasn't got a chance. They say.
their desire is attention, attention, attention no matter who gets trampled or pushed out. those offensively loud cretins have NO loyalty to party, NO loyalty to country, and when they get down to knees and knuckles, NO loyalty to fellow cretins.
Yep. And I'm pretty sure that most of the people who vote for them have little idea of what they do when they're not on the campaign trail, and zero idea of what a competent member of Congress can and should be doing.
Well said indeed. They all cowered in fear during the attack on the Capitol yet voted against giving medals to the police who saved their butts. But what can you expect from people who voted for and even now still support a man for president devoid of even a tiny shred of integrity compassion or empathy. What does that say about their own characters? But that is the GOP of today. And how dumb is it to keep voting over and over fpr speaker when each result is exactly the same. Remember too they are all drawing dowm a nice salary courtesy of the American taxpayer, yet hardly ever produce anything helpful to the people that pay them. I also blame the people who vote them on. They got what they deserved, but unfortunately so did the rest of us who didn't deserve this..
i think, RE, that poor kevieboy is counting on his shameless ability to sit with stoneface and outlast the exasperation of his opponents. i think he feels if he stubbornly holds his place, some of the more rational members of the House will somehow work out a compromise.
i dunno what nor dunno how. i guess we watch and see. one thing definitely for sure the side shows will be *much more* interesting than C-SPAN
and yes, the seated reps will get paid for pretty much doing nothing productive but the newbies who cant get sworn in will be adrift without a paddle.
like that first gen Z member, Maxwell Frost who doesnt have any credit history nor financial cushion is finding it impossible to rent accommodations up the creek
fibber-ish santos will probly talk his way into living-ish at the Hay - Adams. ish
Haha, Ln Em you are very funny. I shouldn't share this but a bit of a ham myself. At 78 I decided to become an actor (well actually an extra), but fell into a little acting by osmosis over the next 11 years. Nothing big, small parts in basically low budget projects and bits in music videos such as Liar with Camila Cabello as a butler. A featured extra on a Fuller House episode, Angeles Night Out, a body double and stand in for Arnold Palmer on a commercial, a stand in for Ernest Borgnine in a movie and Mort Sahl in another movie with Jerry Lewis, odd bits like that but a lot of fun. Small roles in a movie called San Andreas Quake and another low budget movie Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss, as a rich but very old and senile husband of Rhea Seehorn. And a funny skit on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Gordon Ramsay, MasterChef Senior.
Ah, yes LE, I've talked to crew members and asked if they wouldn't want to act and they all say no way. I guess for the same reason. It's never bothered my being in from of the camera, I don't pay any attention to it/ My problem is learning lines. I just don't have the patience, also they way some stuff is written is totally not the way I speak and that might be a factor too. So I could never be a real actor. I'll share with you three short films where I have very little to say. They are all by the same director, Tim Wilkime and as it happens the same lady is in o all three. Tim had remembered us from a College Humor video he did (the third film here), and called us to do the other two. He wrote as well as directed the first one which I thought hilarious, all the actors are great I thought. I don't even speak until the end. The Title is Milton, and I play Milton.
Trump set the (low) bar for Repugnant candidates. The party will continue to support the George Santos and Empty-G types of candidates as the party sinks lower and lower into the quicksand.
did anyone else notice Santos, ignored by everybody, staring at his phone with his mouth in a fixed frown, looking like the Mask of Tragedy? I love it.
Its not just the shamelessness, but the outright, bald-faced lies of so many members of this GQP caucus that is eroding confidence in government, confidence in elected leaders, and confidence in the ability of a democratic society to govern itself.
Santos, or whatever his nom du jour is, should not be seated, but he will. And the GQP majority will never vote to expel him and further diminish their razor thin majority. So he must be prosecuted for voter fraud, or in this case, candidate fraud, for completely misrepresenting himself and his qualifications to the voters in his district. He is (or will be) receiving a salary, paid by taxpayers, including his constituents, under fraudulent pretenses. He needs to be held accountable.
And that should serve as an example to all the other liars and miscreants in the GQP that this kind of conduct will never be tolerated in our democratic institutions.
Perhaps Santos Devolder will be extradited to Brazil for stealing and writing checks on a dead man’s account. Brazil has re-activated the case against him now that they know where he is.
As an NYC local news reader noted, When you're hiding out from the law, running for public office isn't a good plan. I hope eveyone saw the photo of him making a white supremacist gesture around taking his seat.
what scares me is that their party has committed suicide but I can't figure out what kind of mechanism or process exists that'd be useful in creating a new party. so now we're stuck with a party that didn't even see fit to have a platform in the last presidential election. this is a very bad situation, since we seem to be stuck with this disloyal opposition band of LOSERS.
the most enraging moment today (for me, at any rate) was when that putz (I forget who it was...Biggs maybe?) quoted Frederick Douglass saying he'd never vote for anybody BUT a Republican. yeah, he said it. when the fuck was that? they haven't been "Lincoln's party" (remember when TFF told us that "very few people" knew that Lincoln was a Republican?) since 1878, when they made a deal to scuttle Reconstruction.
somebody have mercy and give them the phone number for "Acme Explosives."
what scares me, DL, is that social media had allowed the diaspora of mainly old, white, displaced, poorly-educated, left-behind, angry people to find their widespread tribe. and that same media has allowed them to be loudly Querulous in Anonymity. there they can shout and spew harmful lies and seductive conspiracies.
so there will arise some opportunist who will jump to lead that raucous angry tribe who command huge attention even though they are a small minority.
and it's getting worse with expanding sm platforms. we are going to be faced with that foul flag-waving tribe for possibly forever because as the white-haired members die off there will be plenty of dissatisfied next generation to take their place.
and dont get me started on how Lincoln's Republican Party was hijacked by his vice president andrew johnson, a southern democrat who opposed emancipation and did his best as the new president to make the south rise again
I completely agree. earlier today, I was comparing now to when I was a kid (and quite awhile beyond THAT) when the choice was to watch the news and read whatever papers there were or not. period. now, anyone who feels like it can pick and choose and remain forever alienated from any reality. it's amazingly fucked up. sometimes, when I have the stomach for it, I tune in to one of those call-in shows on C-Span (C-Span itself being part of the problem, since it gave that prick Newt a full-time forum) and it's pretty appalling.
"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
The question remains - if not McCarthy then who? Scalise? When he got shot in the ass he got his brains blown out. He is one nasty piece of work. Stefanik? She'd make us long for Scalise. So who? There are probably a dozen sane Republicans who could do the job as well or better than McCarthy but none of them want to deal with the bullshit from the Freedumb Caucus. Heck, if they did they would assert themselves and put the insurrectionist 20 in their place. In the meantime, Dems are wise to sit back and let the Republicans self immolate. But maybe they should tone down the popcorn and pizza. (but maybe not the alcohol).
i'm not up on House history but is there a recent ie. still living republican who was good at reaching across the aisle?
if dems cld nominate him/her they might get moderate gops to join in
or, another avenue: the voting majority number is established by whatever the total count of voters is *at that time*. reps who abstain or are absent arent counted for the voter total.
so dems could lobby prospective gops to either join with them, or not vote, to bring the total down to whichever number gives them the majority
Is alcohol allowed in the Chamber? I know they were accused of it by some broad, but I thought she was just being her normal tacky self. As far as I could tell, the only person that immediately appeared three sheets to the wind (as usual) was that sicko Gosar.
The Wile E Coyote party. A national embarrassment, but if the last 6 plus years show there isn't a bottom to Republican embarrassment or shame. We have one of our two national parties that cannot govern themselves let alone the country. They have no real policy prescription no real policy just rage, cruelty and stupidity. But let's not blame the elected representatives let's place it at the feet of the American voter. They in the end voted for this circus.
“ rage, cruelty and stupidity” Three nails hit right on the head!
yep
nailed it
right on the feet of the brain damaged MAGAts
Y Rs never grow up, still stuck in HS.
Imagine these twits going after real Commies...
I am enjoying this so much even though i know it is temporary. Too bad that there is not a Tip O'Neil type Democrat that could maneuver support from six Republicans and take the Speakers gavel. Every Republican Speaker from Gingrich, De Ley (remember that scumbag) to Boehner and Ryan either engineered or enabled this shit show. Everything else is, well, What Lucian said.
Since Newt came along this is the R Congress they've built with pride. A bunch of hard line do nothings more interested in clicks and photo ops than actual policy making or legislating. They want more Benghazi style hearings. Thank God they didn't take the Senate too!
I would have left the country.
A 10 year Trump run is enough.
I laughed out loud so many times reading this column. No other columnist can match your razor wit.
I can think of a few who could easily outdo me if only they were still around, my friend Molly being at the top of the list.
She was a goddess
Not a day goes by that I don't wonder what she would have to say about everything that's happened since she passed.
Ivins? Ohhh...loved her!
Imagine Molly in Texas with Gohmert and Cruz, throw in Ann for more spice!
Gohmert, Cruz, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton . . . She would set them *on fire* -- or maybe induce them to self-combust.
She was the best, Breslin enjoyed the mobsters!
I'd like to feel sorry for these shameless bastards, but they only have themselves to blame.
Yesterday I was feeling sorry for a couple of them. Somebody needs to do something dramatically different now for that, like drop out and see who else the Republicans have to offer, or something.
This is the problem: They don't have much. The handful with brains, ability, and backbone have either left the stage or been pushed off it. I've been saying they don't have a deep bench; now I wonder if they have any bench at all.
yes
or something indeed
I've gotta admit, I was beginning to feel a hair sorry for
the poor schlub; he should've stuck to his career of spreading
mustard and mayo; but then I remember what an evil scumbag he
is, and I smile.
ah yes
i think most of us, with the exception of ones with occasional wilting hearts, bask in the warm glow of schadenfreude. and smile.
that "poor schlub" (love this) thought he could shmooze and read the room but fell short when a few of the sharks he was swimming with could smell blood in the weak red wave
"weaponized shamelessness" - perfection in word selection. Let's all watch as the Acme blunderbusses explode in their collective faces like a Road Runner vs. Coyote cartoon
haha
Wile E. mccarthy fits that deadpanned stunned look
Something about Wile E. McCarthy reminds me of Michael Cohen.
I disagree...I think Ted Cruz is much closer to Wile E. (hasn't Michael Cohen actually managed to sorta "rehabilitate?"). I don't think Wile E. had any kids (if he did, he was an absentee parent), unlike TC, the scumbag.
I was thinking more of physical appearance. ;-)
Love him, slow day at MSNBC...call Cohen!
I like hearing this and I hate hearing this. The chaos and upset are still there. No resolution to the last six years of unleashed Trump quality Congress critters yet but I'm hoping this will be just horrific enough for voters as this goes on and on adding to the last six years that they will finally say, you know what, this is NOT what we wanted. And about that debt ceiling, unless McCarthy agrees to not raise that, he hasn't got a chance. They say.
But it IS what the loons who voted for these monsters want: chaos and destruction!
true
they have no other plank.
their desire is attention, attention, attention no matter who gets trampled or pushed out. those offensively loud cretins have NO loyalty to party, NO loyalty to country, and when they get down to knees and knuckles, NO loyalty to fellow cretins.
Yep. And I'm pretty sure that most of the people who vote for them have little idea of what they do when they're not on the campaign trail, and zero idea of what a competent member of Congress can and should be doing.
I certainly agree that's exactly what they want.
Well said indeed. They all cowered in fear during the attack on the Capitol yet voted against giving medals to the police who saved their butts. But what can you expect from people who voted for and even now still support a man for president devoid of even a tiny shred of integrity compassion or empathy. What does that say about their own characters? But that is the GOP of today. And how dumb is it to keep voting over and over fpr speaker when each result is exactly the same. Remember too they are all drawing dowm a nice salary courtesy of the American taxpayer, yet hardly ever produce anything helpful to the people that pay them. I also blame the people who vote them on. They got what they deserved, but unfortunately so did the rest of us who didn't deserve this..
i think, RE, that poor kevieboy is counting on his shameless ability to sit with stoneface and outlast the exasperation of his opponents. i think he feels if he stubbornly holds his place, some of the more rational members of the House will somehow work out a compromise.
i dunno what nor dunno how. i guess we watch and see. one thing definitely for sure the side shows will be *much more* interesting than C-SPAN
and yes, the seated reps will get paid for pretty much doing nothing productive but the newbies who cant get sworn in will be adrift without a paddle.
like that first gen Z member, Maxwell Frost who doesnt have any credit history nor financial cushion is finding it impossible to rent accommodations up the creek
fibber-ish santos will probly talk his way into living-ish at the Hay - Adams. ish
Haha, very cleverly put!
thanx, RE
gotta make my own amusement since the vaudeville lamps have been turned down for the nite
Haha, Ln Em you are very funny. I shouldn't share this but a bit of a ham myself. At 78 I decided to become an actor (well actually an extra), but fell into a little acting by osmosis over the next 11 years. Nothing big, small parts in basically low budget projects and bits in music videos such as Liar with Camila Cabello as a butler. A featured extra on a Fuller House episode, Angeles Night Out, a body double and stand in for Arnold Palmer on a commercial, a stand in for Ernest Borgnine in a movie and Mort Sahl in another movie with Jerry Lewis, odd bits like that but a lot of fun. Small roles in a movie called San Andreas Quake and another low budget movie Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss, as a rich but very old and senile husband of Rhea Seehorn. And a funny skit on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Gordon Ramsay, MasterChef Senior.
good for you! so there's some hope for fulfilling my own thespian ambitions at 74. of course, I'll need a new set of teeth....
hah
thanx
and wow RE
you have been nice and busy in front of the lens. i admire and envy that talent b.c i get tongue-tied when one is aimed at me.
and the fact that you shared screenspace with some famous faces is even more impressive👍👍
Ah, yes LE, I've talked to crew members and asked if they wouldn't want to act and they all say no way. I guess for the same reason. It's never bothered my being in from of the camera, I don't pay any attention to it/ My problem is learning lines. I just don't have the patience, also they way some stuff is written is totally not the way I speak and that might be a factor too. So I could never be a real actor. I'll share with you three short films where I have very little to say. They are all by the same director, Tim Wilkime and as it happens the same lady is in o all three. Tim had remembered us from a College Humor video he did (the third film here), and called us to do the other two. He wrote as well as directed the first one which I thought hilarious, all the actors are great I thought. I don't even speak until the end. The Title is Milton, and I play Milton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPkRfVwWBnU Three Funny Short Films is the Title.
Trump set the (low) bar for Repugnant candidates. The party will continue to support the George Santos and Empty-G types of candidates as the party sinks lower and lower into the quicksand.
did anyone else notice Santos, ignored by everybody, staring at his phone with his mouth in a fixed frown, looking like the Mask of Tragedy? I love it.
Yes, I noticed. He’ll be doing that until he’s sworn in, which, by the looks of the vote for Speaker, could be a l-o-o-n-g time.
“Those who bring troubles upon their House shall inherit the wind.”
you must mean poor kevie gets his wind blown back at him:
Latin pedere ("to break wind")
Its not just the shamelessness, but the outright, bald-faced lies of so many members of this GQP caucus that is eroding confidence in government, confidence in elected leaders, and confidence in the ability of a democratic society to govern itself.
Santos, or whatever his nom du jour is, should not be seated, but he will. And the GQP majority will never vote to expel him and further diminish their razor thin majority. So he must be prosecuted for voter fraud, or in this case, candidate fraud, for completely misrepresenting himself and his qualifications to the voters in his district. He is (or will be) receiving a salary, paid by taxpayers, including his constituents, under fraudulent pretenses. He needs to be held accountable.
And that should serve as an example to all the other liars and miscreants in the GQP that this kind of conduct will never be tolerated in our democratic institutions.
End of rant.
Perhaps Santos Devolder will be extradited to Brazil for stealing and writing checks on a dead man’s account. Brazil has re-activated the case against him now that they know where he is.
As an NYC local news reader noted, When you're hiding out from the law, running for public office isn't a good plan. I hope eveyone saw the photo of him making a white supremacist gesture around taking his seat.
what scares me is that their party has committed suicide but I can't figure out what kind of mechanism or process exists that'd be useful in creating a new party. so now we're stuck with a party that didn't even see fit to have a platform in the last presidential election. this is a very bad situation, since we seem to be stuck with this disloyal opposition band of LOSERS.
the most enraging moment today (for me, at any rate) was when that putz (I forget who it was...Biggs maybe?) quoted Frederick Douglass saying he'd never vote for anybody BUT a Republican. yeah, he said it. when the fuck was that? they haven't been "Lincoln's party" (remember when TFF told us that "very few people" knew that Lincoln was a Republican?) since 1878, when they made a deal to scuttle Reconstruction.
somebody have mercy and give them the phone number for "Acme Explosives."
what scares me, DL, is that social media had allowed the diaspora of mainly old, white, displaced, poorly-educated, left-behind, angry people to find their widespread tribe. and that same media has allowed them to be loudly Querulous in Anonymity. there they can shout and spew harmful lies and seductive conspiracies.
so there will arise some opportunist who will jump to lead that raucous angry tribe who command huge attention even though they are a small minority.
and it's getting worse with expanding sm platforms. we are going to be faced with that foul flag-waving tribe for possibly forever because as the white-haired members die off there will be plenty of dissatisfied next generation to take their place.
and dont get me started on how Lincoln's Republican Party was hijacked by his vice president andrew johnson, a southern democrat who opposed emancipation and did his best as the new president to make the south rise again
i could go on ranting
I completely agree. earlier today, I was comparing now to when I was a kid (and quite awhile beyond THAT) when the choice was to watch the news and read whatever papers there were or not. period. now, anyone who feels like it can pick and choose and remain forever alienated from any reality. it's amazingly fucked up. sometimes, when I have the stomach for it, I tune in to one of those call-in shows on C-Span (C-Span itself being part of the problem, since it gave that prick Newt a full-time forum) and it's pretty appalling.
i think, DE, you have SNAFU new wording in the langua franca of these times
"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Lucian I do appreciate your knowledge and ability to express it so well.
Thanks old pal. I learned it all in beanhead English.
The question remains - if not McCarthy then who? Scalise? When he got shot in the ass he got his brains blown out. He is one nasty piece of work. Stefanik? She'd make us long for Scalise. So who? There are probably a dozen sane Republicans who could do the job as well or better than McCarthy but none of them want to deal with the bullshit from the Freedumb Caucus. Heck, if they did they would assert themselves and put the insurrectionist 20 in their place. In the meantime, Dems are wise to sit back and let the Republicans self immolate. But maybe they should tone down the popcorn and pizza. (but maybe not the alcohol).
good thoughts.
i'm not up on House history but is there a recent ie. still living republican who was good at reaching across the aisle?
if dems cld nominate him/her they might get moderate gops to join in
or, another avenue: the voting majority number is established by whatever the total count of voters is *at that time*. reps who abstain or are absent arent counted for the voter total.
so dems could lobby prospective gops to either join with them, or not vote, to bring the total down to whichever number gives them the majority
hmm?
Is alcohol allowed in the Chamber? I know they were accused of it by some broad, but I thought she was just being her normal tacky self. As far as I could tell, the only person that immediately appeared three sheets to the wind (as usual) was that sicko Gosar.
If the Republicans mess with Social Security, they're going to have to answer to millions of baby boomers. Are they really that stupid? Yes.
They cannot do a thing that Biden would sign. The next two years is a waste of time with their antics, which go straight into the shredder.
Yup! Dems have the majority in the Senate.