Circular Firing Squad
The rightwing ‘lint’ [too far out to be fringe] can’t even agree on a House Speaker: Republican Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race to be speaker of the US House of Representatives.
The GOP have 247 seats in the House. It requires 218 votes to elect a Speaker. Currently at least 30 of the ‘lint’ faction won’t support anyone who can win 188 votes from from the remaining 217 relatively sane Republicans.
Essentially they don’t want Boehner, and can’t elect one of their own, so we have a three party split in an organization designed for two parties.
Pass the popcorn. It’s a Wes Craven adaptation of a Chaplin screenplay, starring the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges with George Hamilton as the retiring Speaker of the House.
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I’m not surprised there was some dislike for Charlie McCarthy, since he has Big Data’s hands stuck up his butt making his mouth move (those of us old enough to remember Edgar Bergen get it, I’m sure the youngsters don’t), but I’m surprised that nobody else stepped forward and said “I want it!”. All the usual suspects seem to have been approached and they all backed away saying “nuh uhn get away from me that Speaker’s chair has cooties!”.
The problem would seem to be that no one wants to deal with the whackoes. Anyone who actually has hopes of higher office doesn’t want failed Speaker of the House on his CV. The real value of being the Speaker is the ability to actually getting things done, and you can’t do it that with the current zoo.