The MAGA Fueled Shutdown Follies

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

After two impeachments of Trump, apparently the MAGA House changed the voting rules, but have not been able to find out the details. Perhaps not a simple majority anymore?

Trump coming up empty again and now the financial fraud trial starting, the MAGA sail has been punched full of holes.

Gaetz will certainly try to oust McCarthy tomorrow and that should be yet another clown show.

Remember the Benny Hill show and the chase scene music? Where the characters are running around, bumbling around at double speed. Play that music in your mind as they (try to) oust McCarthy tomorrow, try to find a replacement, argue over a replacement, fail to find a replacement, chaos ensues, the Houses business comes to a stand still and the GQP idiots show up on FAUX news* blaming Biden.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Remember the Benny Hill show and the chase scene music? Where the characters are running around, bumbling around at double speed. Play that music in your mind as they (try to) oust McCarthy tomorrow, try to find a replacement, argue over a replacement, fail to find a replacement, chaos ensues, the Houses business comes to a stand still and the GQP idiots show up on FAUX news* blaming Biden.

"Yakety Sax" (Boots Randolph) playing while they do the Benny Hill.

[donquixote99]

This 'shut down the government' impulse has been around for a long long time. This article from 'The Weekly Sift' from back in 2008, traces it back to before the Civil War! The original and brilliant observation that Doug Muder makes here is:

The essence of the Confederate worldview is that the democratic process cannot legitimately change the established social order, and so all forms of legal and illegal resistance are justified when it tries.

That worldview is alive and well. During last fall’s government shutdown and threatened debt-ceiling crisis, historian Garry Wills wrote about our present-day Tea Partiers: “The presiding spirit of this neo-secessionism is a resistance to majority rule.”

The Confederate sees a divinely ordained way things are supposed to be, and defends it at all costs. No process, no matter how orderly or democratic, can justify fundamental change.

https://weeklysift.com/2014/08/11/no...ederate-party/

MAGA is just the latest robes of the Confederates.

[finnbow]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a sign of the worsening feud among congressional Republicans, Representative Matt Gaetz lashed out at Kevin McCarthy, accusing the Speaker of “behaving like an adult.”

“Listening to others and striking a compromise are adulthood at its worst,” he charged. “Kevin McCarthy needs to look at himself in the mirror and ask if he wants to be an adult, or a Republican.”

Gaetz said that, now that McCarthy has “crossed a red line into adult behavior,” there was “no telling” what he might do next. “Soon he’ll be sitting still and keeping his hands to himself,” he said.

“I guess when it comes down to it, Kevin likes adults,” he noted. “I’ve always preferred children.”

Speaking to reporters, McCarthy bristled at being called an adult by a member of his own conference. “I don’t see how name-calling solves anything,” he said.