In the end, My Kevin wanted a bailout, not from his proverbial tiger, but from the woman he disdained, disrespected, lied to, broke his word to, threatened violence against, and stood silent when violence was done against her husband’s body and reputation. McCarthy is aggrieved and sullen, while Patrick McHenry, his bow-tied successor, is enraged and vengeful. Nothing is their fault. Nothing.
Suddenly they are fallen lions, struck down by a rabble who aren’t serious about the hallowed institution and governing. Have you heard the news today? Newt Gingrich is concerned. The hypocrisy is laughable, but not funny, tragic, but not sad, obscene, but not quite pornographic. Kevin McCarthy is a narcissistic, blow-dried apostle of airhead-ism, holding a cocktail of sedition, cynicism, dishonesty and extremism.
The Speaker In Name Only has fallen! Long live the temporary Speaker! Patrick McHenry wants the world to know that he means it when he brings the whip…I mean, the hammer…I mean, the gavel down!
No doubt Patrick McHenry is waving an imaginary saber over his head, atop an imaginary steed, charging to take back Speaker Emeritus Pelosi’s Capitol office!
“At any rate, revenge!! Revenge!!! I pledge my sacred honor that I shall avenge My Kevin, My Kevin, oh, My Kevin! I shall take Nancy Pelosi’s office! And Steny Hoyer’s too!“
In one swoop, Patrick McHenry showed pettiness knows no bounds in the MAGA House. Like the seditionists and criminals his faction inspired to kill the vice president, shit in the Capitol rotunda and urinate on the chamber floors of the US House, McHenry’s pettiness is another marker of decay, collapse and disintegration. It is shameful and unnecessary, but perfectly in keeping with the unfitness that is pristinely manifested by his conference of weirdos, extremists and loons 24/7, 365 days a year.
The Republican majority is a bundle of lunacy and unfitness. It is an asylum that is unfit to govern. Yet, they hold the majority until the American people say, “Get out!” That should definitely happen given the non-stop malice, imbecility, craziness and damage being done to the United States.
Trump’s rhetoric is becoming more unhinged and violent. It will be heeded, and there will be a moment when the chaos erupts and death comes. He will be to blame, as will the American media, which in many cases, ignores it, while in many others, stokes it. The menace is growing. Can you sense it?
Ponder the words of former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, who besmirched his reputation and honor serving Donald Trump as a political handmaid and apologist. This is the statement he issued to CNN. The USMC general said this many years too late, but not too late to matter. Read these words. I’ll have more to say about this in a video commentary.
“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”
I need someone to explain to me, I really do, why every shallow, petty, childish and downright cruel thing the R’s do (see McHenry’s pathetic ouster of Pelosi while she was at a FUNERAL), is met with silence at best, or a “boys will be boys,” shrug of the shoulders, or finally, “hey politics is a tough business” wink.
I am talking about the freaking media we have now, and John Q Public too. When the D’s do ANYTHING much, much less cruel and hateful, they are excoriated non stop everywhere. Why, why, why?
Our country is seriously broken, and mainstream media has not met the crisis of this moment, and neither have our citizens. Keep shouting from the rooftops, Steve.
John Kelly's chilling words are terrifyingly accurate, but should have been uttered, repeated and shouted from the rooftops years ago.