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Of course, the 'no 2024 election military intervention' theory could be viewed as daft hopium as well, and maybe things ARE as fucked up as they appear.
The Republican Congress critters will, of course, continue to expose the corruption to the public.
It’s not just Ukrainian oligarchs freaking out that McCarthy is no longer Speaker. The LA Times ran a hilarious story yesterday headlined, “‘Evil,’ ‘delusional,’ ‘Benedict Arnold’: In Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire.” I think this may be the first time the LA Times has ever attacked a Republican for attacking a Republican.
Surprising even itself, the LA times discovered — for the first time since the Spanish Land Grant — a bunch of Republicans that it likes, hiding in plain sight. Discarding with ease its box of usual deplorable MAGA monikers, the Times found new, positive labels for conservatives, referring to its anti-Gaetz interviewees as “Republican voters,” “conservative citizens,” “residents,” and the saintly “Bakersfield Republican Women’s Club.”
Amazingly, out of all those groups, the LA Times couldn’t quote one single Republican who agreed with Matt Gaetz. Every single person they interviewed — over half a dozen — all agreed with McCarthy. Isn’t that something? I’d guess it was unanimous except by reading the C&C comments I can tell that there is a, um, let’s say “diversity of opinion” compared with the Bakersfield Republican Women’s Club.
It wasn’t just the LA Times. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, all the woke Establishment Media outlets decried McCarthy’s removal. All the stories were very similar and all used the word “chaos.”
Make a note in your diaries. This is the first time Establishment Media universally has ever defended a prominent Republican instead of gleefully celebrating his problems.
So — whoever is being the secretary - go ahead and add another point in the Gaetz column since, like the Ukrainians, woke Establishment Media is also mad that McCarthy is gone. I’m not saying McCarthy was working for media’s real deep state bosses or anything. I’m just saying.
The media weren’t the only ones. Yesterday I also noticed a lot of chatter from Republican officials who should know better about Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) and the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy as being “traitors” who, ironically, “sided” with democrats. What nonsense.
First of all, two days before Gaetz initiated his removal, McCarthy sided with democrats to pass a budget over Republican objections. The LA Times even made the same point, unironically beclowning itself:
The ultimate betrayal, Campbell said, was that Gaetz had criticized McCarthy for working with Democrats, then turned around and banded together with the opposing party to oust him.
So McCarthy did it first, creating the precedent. Now don’t come crying to me about “siding with democrats.” Lie down with dogs, get up with dog hair all over you.
Second, and more important, Matt Gaetz was only following the rules of a game that McCarthy created to get the Speaker’s job in the first place. The deal was, if McCarthy ever welshed on the deal, any one member could call for a floor vote to remove the Speaker. The Times article even admitted it:
Gaetz filed the motion to oust McCarthy late Monday night, taking advantage of chamber rules that the House majority approved in January — part of a deal that McCarthy cut to be elected speaker — that allow any lawmaker to force a quick vote on booting the speaker.
And when McCarthy welshed as soon as things started getting sticky, Matt Gaetz did what McCarthy’s rules allowed.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
In other words, why complain about Gaetz creating chaos when it was McCarthy who made the rules that allowed the chaos to happen in the first place? Why not blame Saint Kevin? One suspects it is just because they’re just trying to use the controversy to get rid of Gaetz for daring to do something like disrupt the deep state’s Proxy War.
19 or 20 asshoe republicans voted against defunding the new vehicle kill switch law along side democrats to kill it.
So now in 2026 we'll have cameras and microphones and AI watching us drive ready to disable the vehicle if it thinks you're intoxicated. Oh, and onboard alcohol sniffers so you can't drive a drunk home.
Yesterday, eight Republicans, may a pox be upon them, crossed the aisle to vote with democrats NOT to impeach DHS Secretary Alex Mayorkas for the controlled demolition of the United States’ southern border. Rather, democrats and those eight Republicans referred the issue to a committee where it can be safely and quietly buried in the middle of the night under that mountain where we put all the leftover scraps of Uranium-235. Twelve other lizard-lipped Republicans failed to show up to vote. I hope palmetto bugs skitter up their pajamas legs in the middle of the night. I say that from personal experience.
Here are the eight Republicans, may they step on tiny legos whenever they get up at night to use the bathroom, who think lying liar Secretary Mayorkas is doing a bang-up job down at the border:
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Co.) 202-225-4676, @RepKenBuck.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ca.) 202-225-5672, @RepDarrellIssa.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Ca.) (202) 225-2511, @tommcclintock.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) (202) 225-2576, @PatrickMcHenry.
Rep. John Duarte (R-Ca.) (202) 225-1947, @RepDuarteCA13.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) (202) 225-2071. @virginiafoxx.
Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Or.) (202) 225-6730, @RepBentz.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Oh.) (202) 225-6465, @RepMikeTurner.
Extra credit for Floridians: Maria Salazar (R-Fl.) was a no-show to vote. (202) 225-3931.
Back in 2021, we started a ‘5-a-day Army’, where every day, C&Cers each called five legislators to deliver a quick script. Five calls, under five minutes. And it worked! We shut down entire offices and finally got the state Congress back to a special session in November 2021, to pass protections for employees against vaccine mandates.
Let’s do a one-day operation! It will make you feel better. Today’s C&C Army Orders: using any method you like, randomly pick three of the eight names above, add any from your home state, and either call or tweet the following script (feel free to improvise, but be polite):
Good morning(afternoon), Representative. Please explain why you voted to table the Mayorkas impeachment vote. From now on, please do whatever it takes to seal the border and deport every person illegally in the country. Thank you.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) originally filed the motion to impeach our diverse Homeland Secretary. Marjorie’s from Georgia. Maybe the representatives from Texas could take some notes from Ms. Greene? Ahem, Dan Crenshaw (R-Tx.)? Just saying.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ca.) 202-225-5672, RepDarrellIssa.
One would hopium that juggernaut retribution is real and not another head fake.
The Speaker is the head of the Capitol Police. And as Speaker, immune from the DOJ.
So not only has McCarthy done nothing of substance, capitulated on every major issue so far, he's now capitulated to his own underlings, the Capitol Police. The funding for the 87k IRS agents is in. McCarthy didn't cut a dime of IRS spending, he only cut a lousy 3% from the $80B in NEW funding for the IRS from the "Inflation Reduction Act" passed by the Dem House last year.
Execute the promise. Replace McCarthy. We need a strong Speaker for 2024, not a RINO Wimp.