Notes on Writing on Logjammin

So, here we are at day 3(4) of the once-ignored Speaker vote, something that while an integral, Constitutionally-mandated procedure, has for the most part been the furthest thing from people's minds for what, decades now? Centuries?

Admittedly, the spectacle of it all is intriguing (think: recurring car accident). No one has seen 10 rounds of Speaker votes in at least 3 lifetimes, and the repeated failure of Kevin McCarthy and the GOP to settle the loons down long enough to take the gavel hasn't gotten any less entertaining, at least for myself (and the tiresome pundit class, which believes it should dictate and direction discussion on all things Washington, and keeps succeeding, even in spite of itself). 

I do enjoy watching McCarthy get embarrassed repeatedly, taking at least some of his comeuppance for tucking tail and being a groveling sycophant to the Captain SprayTan. Well, that, and for being generally spiteful and awful and amoral and spineless and just a terrible all-around person. Does that seem like too much?

Not that he's particularly distinct or different from his republican colleagues, many of whom have only recently begun to back away from the mindless mutant they created and so unabashedly supported over the last 6 years. It only took a less-than-favorable election two years after an attempted coup and just a short memory away from what was likely the worst president of the last 100 years or so, if not in history.

But, things like comeuppance don't generally occur when you want or need them too, particularly in today's Washington, which seems to maintain a terribly high threshold for embarrassment and pain and ratfuckery. As a whole, that is. 

And honestly, this whole Speaker-Vote Logjam is pretty lame punishment for a bunch of thugs and criminals who would have been just as happy to survive a successful insurrection and stand on the ashes as to demonstrate false contrition or complete silence when it failed.  

I understand power for power's sake and the driving force that it is, but to make that dictum the main plank and cornerstone of your party is a little much. And all so some rich guys and tOO bIG tOO fAIL corporations can lower their tax bill and avoid any sort of consequence for wrecking the environment and education and society. 

Still, it is nice to watch McCarthy and his old white guys club squirm a little, and to finally and openly demonstrate (and get on camera) that they actually resemble everything they've been speechifying for the past 50 years. "Government is dysfunctional and broken and dumb and couldn't pave a one-lane highway to hell" has been the mantra, and that self-fulfilling prophecy is perhaps nowhere as evident right now as in the House chamber, where so-called "normal" GOPers are now being subject to the whims of the clown show they've so meticulously assembled over decades and decades. 

Unfortunately, it's not just the milquetoast, tax-cuttin Repubs that will take the hit on this. The inability of the GOP to cleanse itself of its extremist brethren is not just standing between them and 2 years of Hunter Biden and "investigations" more wanton destruction of competent governance; it will also become another extended nightmare for the assembly and the country, perpetuating red hatter relevance and creating just enough opening for a real shithead to take power (think: Florida). With the kooks pulling strings and stomping their feet anytime something doesn't go their way, it will only get uglier from here.

You thought MAGA was done? No. It's just reshaping itself into something more palatable, something they can still sell to the rubes for a $10 donation and undying fealty. 

However this ends up (McCarthy or Hearn or Roy or some other Shitbag(r)), unity will not be a viable option. 

I do enjoy me some C-SPAN, though. 

Til Tomorrow...

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