You've Got to Be Kidding?

Well, it took a full 15 rounds of voting, as well as some very serious behind-the-scenes deal-making with the Republican Party’s hard-core MAGA, Christian Nationalist, and insurrectionist election deniers, but Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally came up with enough votes from that angry, bickering mob posing as a political party, to elevate himself to that cherished position of power he has so desperately desired for oh so many years, Speaker of the US House of Representatives . Luckily for him, all Kevin McCarthy had to do to secure the Speakership, was simply agree to allow the House GOP to go full QAnon on the country.  He’ll now have the privilege of presiding over a nest of half-witted, venomous pit vipers, exhibiting varying degrees of sanity.   That said, if he thinks he’s given them all they will ever want, he’s greatly mistaken.   That’s because these are the kind of folks whose mantra is simply, “all I ever wanted from life, is more! Frankly, as a veteran, citizen, an...

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s selection of Jim Banks and Jim Jordan (two 2020 election deniers) to be on the select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew all his committee nominations and said Republicans will instead run their own separate probe into the matter. Wow, gotta admit, this McCarthyism phenomenon seems to become more interesting, with each new incarnation.  And hell, while they’re at it, a committee with such stellar credentials as this new McCarthy committee has, shouldn’t just limit itself to investigating the Jan 6th insurrection.  Why, they should also consider investigating other things Americans still want answers to, like whether or not Haley Joel Osment - can really “see dead people?”  Just sayin’!  Of course, the fact is, we don’t really have to wait in suspense to know how this McCarthy “thing” is gonna turn out.  Spoile...