Hit me baby one more time
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In the crazy mixed up world of the American right wing theocracy, Drag Queen Story Hour is an intolerable threat to children and civilization as a whole, but prolonged, public displays of a humiliation fetish are A-OK.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he was open to becoming speaker of the House again, less than a week after he was ousted from the role.
A handful of hardline Republicans in the House of Representatives last week accomplished the unprecedented feat of voting out the sitting speaker. McCarthy on Tuesday after the vote said he would not run again for the role that took him a historic 15 rounds of votes to obtain in January, throwing the House Republican conference into a tailspin without an obvious leader.
McCarthy changed his tune Monday in an interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, saying, “Whatever the conference wants, I will do.”
The Republican conference wants to do the only thing it can do, stand around showing its entire ass, from cracktop to taint.
Republicans have no clear idea who will be the next U.S. House speaker, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum in Congress and severely limiting America’s ability to quickly respond to the crisis in Israel — or any number of other problems at home and abroad.
That’s three unprecendents in a row. An unprecedented number of votes to elect a speaker, an unprecedented ouster of the same speaker and an unprecedented sucking hole where a functioning political party should be because the U.S. is far too tolerant of the horrible white people.
On Monday, the ousted former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, quickly jumped into the void, bitterly criticizing President Joe Biden’s administration over the strength of its defense of Israel and positioning himself as a de facto Republican leader even though his colleagues toppled him from power.
Most people would prefer to leap into a void than remind the world that they are irrelevant, discarded trash. But normal people with humiliation fetishes do it with consenting partners, in private.
But it’s not at all clear if McCarthy could seriously make a comeback — or if one of the other Republicans seeking the gavel, Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan, can be elected speaker as their majority stumbles into infighting. House Republicans met behind closed doors for hours Monday evening as anger and blame spilled out, with no clear path forward.
Republicans have figured out that if they put on a suit and call it politics, everyone has to watch. And none of the witnesses have consented to getting them off. ;-)
Be kind, stay on topic.
