Let me share an obscenity with you.
On Fox News, Gingrich called McCarthy the “only hope for conservatism in Washington right now, “and to undermine him, I think, is to undermine conservatism, the Republican Party, and the country.”
The toxic Gingrich destroyed America’s political culture, and instigated 25 years of nihilistic partisanship that has profoundly damaged the United States. Now, he seems utterly perplexed around what is happening. He seems confused. He declared that those opposing McCarthy have no moral right to do so, which is nearly as ludicrous as Newt Gingrich talking about morals.
What is happening is easy to explain. This is the fruit of appeasement. Donald Trump’s insanity, corruption, lying, cruelty and sedition were appeased, in the end, by nearly every elected Republican in the House of Representatives. The greatest appeaser among them was Kevin McCarthy. He is a hollow and empty man. That is why he won’t be Speaker. He also won’t be Majority Leader. In fact, Kevin McCarthy won’t be in leadership at all. He will be a lesson about where the abdication of duty, responsibility and integrity lead. He will be a case study. He is among America’s greatest profiles in cowardice.
The fall of Kevin McCarthy is a spectacle of decay and corruption. This moment closes and seals a circle that began eight years ago when Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator. It fulfills the prophesy of Lindsay Graham, who accurately said the following in May of 2016:
Kevin McCarthy is utterly unfit to be the Speaker of the House and in the presidential line of succession. Of course, so is almost everyone else in the Star Wars creature cantina that is known as the GOP House Conference.
The conference is a cauldron of dishonesty, extremism and corruption. Their unfitness and incapacity to govern is profound. The Republican House is a threat to the peace and prosperity of the American people. There can be no overstating the issue about a political party that elevates, celebrates and tolerates people like George Santos, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs.
The question is: what should be done about it?
There is an opportunity at hand to finish off the Trump era, eviscerate the extremist caucus and renew the comity, dignity and functionality of the US House of Representatives. In other words, it is time to play politics and make a deal that is good for America, above all other considerations.
Scenario 1:
There are 10 GOP members in districts that Joe Biden won. Those members will be extremely vulnerable in those districts after two years of nihilistic insanity — to say the least. They can choose to survive and thrive by thinking outside of the box.
Leader Jeffries and the House Democrats should be open to the following deal in order to secure the necessary GOP votes to make Jeffries the Speaker:
Defecting GOP members are assigned committee chairmanships of their choice. Remember that, currently, Democrats are set to chair zero committees.
The DCCC pledges to refrain from supporting Democratic opponents against those GOP members. Those GOP members would not survive their party primaries, and would have to run for re-election as independents.
Those members are given substantial earmark allowances for their districts.
Scenario 2:
Democrats let it be known that they will vote for Fred Upton to be Speaker of the House if they secure the requisite GOP votes to do so.
This will require a list of non-negotiable demands that include the following:
A. There will be no vandalism regarding debt ceiling votes.
B. There will be even splits on committees between Republicans and Democrats.
C. George Santos is expelled.D. Agreement is reached around expulsion votes for members implicated in the seditious conspiracy.
The destruction of Kevin McCarthy’s political career and the total obliteration of the Freedom Caucus as an influential bloc is good for America.
Our political system — for better or worse — is a two-party system. Currently, one of the parties is utterly morally bankrupt, incompetent and completely dysfunctional. It needs to be reformed, which means it needs to be flattened. This is the moment to strike at MAGA and the House extremists who allowed it to run wild and nearly destroy the Republic.
The country badly needs to see more of what it saw today in Covington, Kentucky. There has never been a genteel time in American politics, and there never will be. We don’t need gentility. We need basic functionality and competence. We need people who can sit in a room and work out the issues that the most complex society in the history of human civilization needs to work out.
We have lived through a rancid era. It may not seem like it now, but better days are ahead. MAGA is breaking. This was always what it was going to look like.
Kevin’s end
Steve, all I can say is “from your lips to god’s ears”. Okay, I can say more. I like your ideas for a way to broker a deal with the House by Democrats, especially option two. It would morally move the needle for good Democrats and the Republicans who can’t stand what has happened. It would certainly soothe my soul. That and a Trump indictment. You have much of value to add to the conversation in our country today and I look forward to hearing your voice.
“the most complex society in the history of human civilization” This struck me. A conservative acknowledging perhaps that “small, limited “ government and deregulation may not be appropriate in this highly complicated world. As an MD, I’ve always believed that like evolution on earth, our government, like our highly diversified brains, needed to expand to take on new challenges. Yes, there may be redundancies and waste, but shrinking or eliminating whole departments may be erroneous. Right now, the Republican congress is a nonfunctional area of white matter; Diseased and capable only of causing seizures on the body politic