Defenestrations
Yesterday, the Republicans got rid of their own Speaker, Kevin McCarthy. Plenty of people are pointing fingers at Democrats for not backing McCarthy up, but honestly why is it Democrats’ job to backstop Republican dysfunction and malfeasance? Sounds like a them problem and not a we problem, and if they have a small handful of ne’er-do-wells consisting of the most extreme and noxious political personalities in the nation, then it’s up to less-noxious Republicans to sort that out.
It bears mentioning that Nancy Pelosi got a lot done between 2021 – 2022 because she is competent and knew how to keep her caucus united and functioning.
I’ve been writing a blog of some sort since 2003 and throughout that time, I have observed and chronicled the slow-rolling decline of the Republican Party. Whether or not you agreed with its platforms and ideas, it was a competent participant in our federal system of government at least until 1994 when Newt Gingrich really launched its current descent into bellicose extremism. Then it morphed into a parochial religiousist party, and now it is nothing more than a nihilist cult, busily scaring its voters, reinforcing and feeding its least-informed and neediest base, and trying to out-do one-another in fealty to the cult of Donald Trump, the maximum rule. The Red Caesar. The emperor-king.
The Republicans had an amoral adulterer preside over the Clinton impeachment, all the while spouting moralistic claptrap. Then they stole the election from Al Gore, they destablized the Middle East by invading Iraq, then President Obama’s election completely fried their brains as the Tea Party and Sarah Palin ushered in a whole new era of know-nothing nihilist ignorance, culminating in the cult of Donald Trump – the most un-American and anti-American President ever to serve.
As the Republican Party implodes, the Democrats should let them have at it. If the country for whatever reason needs a functioning “conservative” political party, then someone really ought to found one because the Republican Party isn’t it, and never will be again.
Defenestrate the Republican Party just as they defenestrated Kevin McCarthy, and cast it into the ashbin of history, with the Whigs.
How about McCarthy’s temporary replacement only order of business is stripping Pelosi of her office and changing the locks since she is at DiFi’s funeral. I cherish what experienced Parliamentarian’s will do to the rabble as they slowly twist in the wind.