John Deering for January 06, 2023

Honest question: How many Republicans would be classified as “moderate”?

And who are they?

The magajerks are going to cave. If they were serious a few would support Jeffries. They’d have a Dem speaker and, in 2024, the respect of their majority.

Alas, stupid is as stupid does.

Since they are technically “congressmen elect”, I hope they’re not getting paid to throw this hissy fit.

And now Giggity Gaetz is “Threatening to resign” if McTraitor isn’t made speaker.

Put up, or shut up, Matt!

At first glance I thought it was Putin.

Monty Python! Excellent reference for the GOPucks

Thank you, John, a classic well-used here.

A draw? Heads you lose, tails I win? Or if I lose it’s rigged?

Loser.

Corporations have given $10 million to election deniers after they said they’d stop

On Friday, POLITICO reported that dozens and dozens of corporations that vowed in the wake of the January 6 attack to stop giving campaign money to lawmakers complicit in the plot to overturn the election, have quietly gone back to their old ways, and given around $10 million to the politicians they said they’d swear off.“Political action committees affiliated with more than 70 major corporations said they would pause or reconsider donations to those who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 election after the attack on the U.S. Capitol two years ago,” reported Jessica Piper and Zach Montellaro. “Then they gave more than $10 million to members of Congress who did just that, according to a POLITICO analysis of federal campaign finance filings.”

Out of all the R’s that were in office two years ago, how many voted to support an insurrection by voting to decertify Biden’s election? None of them are qualified to hold the gavel.

Love the Monty Python reference. It pretty much illustrates what’s going on at the moment.

Yet the ones who left him that way ain’t no King Arthurs. (Kings Arthur?)

Tis but a scratch . . .

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=black+knight+monty+python#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f55907cf,vid:ZmInkxbvlCs

The funny thing is, he still has 200 votes to their 20. He could have fixed this problem by booting the insurrectionists in the first place, but since they were Orange Traitor’s favorites, he couldn’t bring himself to do the right thing, at the right time.

Still think, this is a ploy to make Democrats vote for him, just to get it over with, so that he can claim bipartisan support.

I blame BOTH parties for creating the fiasco where we are stuck with McCarthy who has the horrific potential to be one of the most destructive and most divisive Speakers in our country’s history. Yes, we all know who voted for him and those people are idiots, BUT THERE WAS AN ALTERNATIVE. All the Democrats had to do was to take the high road and put the nation before party, and put healing the chamber before fighting, and this could have been so different. NEITHER party chose in even decent numbers to heal their chamber and NEITHER party chose to place the nation before their party. SHAME ON THEM. There still are moderate Republicans who have histories of working with both sides of the aisle. If the Democrats had, even after a few votes, en mass switched to voting for one of those moderates then enough Republicans could have been convinced to join them. Bacon of Nevada would have probably been the easiest one to get in and it would have likely just taken one vote; there are certainly others. The House of Representatives COULD have shown the nation once again how working together happens instead of being torn apart by extremists as Germany was in the 1930, but NEITHER party set a good example, NEITHER party put the nation before party, and NEITHER party served the American people nor our nation’s future last night. Shame, shame, shame, shame on them. (Disclosure: I am an independent with ancestors who were heroes of the Revolution that began this nation and am appalled that I might be among the last to have seen our nation actually functioning, as emphasized by the too recent attempted Dissident Assisted Auto-Coup (See info at Cline Center for Advanced Social Research.)

Just replace the names with Democrat and Republican, and in place of the Prince are we, the citizens:

“Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love;

And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."

Kevin’s left nut must be hiding behind one of his boots.