{"id":1717,"date":"2025-01-03T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:14:23","slug":"cry-havoc-and-let-slip-the-war-of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Cry Havoc! — And let slip the war of dogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/p>\r\n

January 3rd, 2025<\/p>\r\n

For those of you familiar with Marc Antony\u2019s speech in Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caesar, no, I didn\u2019t transpose the famous quote. This isn\u2019t a mustering of the troops. This is just an avoidable dog fight amongst mangy curs scrapping over carrion.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nI\u2019m referring to the opening day of the 119th<\/sup> House of Representatives. The second order of business (after the quorum call) is the vote to select a new Speaker. Mike Johnson (R-Self-Styled Christians Who Worship Trump) is the current Speaker\u2014for now. A weak man stuck in an impossible situation, he\u2019s been the least effective Speaker since the antebellum era, the last time the nation has been so divided by sectionalism.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Democrats, at least, are taking it seriously. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who fractured her hip and had it replaced last month, is there. They know there is an outside chance that in all the chaos, they could end up in control of the House. At the very least, they can enjoy the spectacle of the Republicans self-destructing.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe margin Republicans enjoy in the House is one vote. And at least one Republican, Thomas Massie (R-Screaming Right Wing Loons) has indicated to kindred soul Matt Gaetz (former R-Pedophiles, now OANN flack) that he would not be supporting Johnson. Colorfully. \u201cYou can pull all my fingernails out; you can shove bamboo up in them; you can start cutting off my fingers…I am not voting for Mike Johnson<\/a> tomorrow, and you can take that to the bank.\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOK, let\u2019s put him down as a tentative no vote.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA new complicating factor is Chip Roy (R-Mean Texas Bigots) who wants to be in charge of the Rules Committee. The MAGA coalition allow that if Johnson endorses Roy for that role, it might bring the non-Massey coalition in line and put Johnson over the top. However, the other 150 members of the GOP caucus who aren\u2019t completely insane aren\u2019t impressed. Don Bacon from Nebraska told the press, \u201cPutting Chip Roy in charge of the rules committee is like putting Stalin in charge of amnesty and diplomacy.\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis puts Johnson in an impossible situation\u2014support the loathsome Roy and risk losing non-MAGA Republicans, or reject him, which would probably cost him three or four MAGA votes, perhaps more.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWell, hee-whack.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHe didn\u2019t support Roy, to his faint credit.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMassie voted for the 118th<\/sup> House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer, so Johnson\u2019s margin is zero.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhy am I paying such close attention to this?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWell, without a House Speaker, the new Congress, whose members were sworn in earlier today, cannot convene. Until they have selected the Speaker, the only thing they can do under the Constitution is select a new Speaker. They don\u2019t officially exist until that happens.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n…and Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina just voted for House Republican Gym Jordan (R-Men\u2019s Shower Room).\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRight. Cry havoc, indeed. Havoc is a neat word. It means either \u201cwide and general destruction\u201d or \u201cgreat confusion and disorder.\u201d The GOP have just implemented the second meaning of the term.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCongress is paralyzed. They can\u2019t certify Donnie as President. For starters. I\u2019m wondering what happens on the 20th<\/sup> if Donnie still hasn\u2019t been certified. Trump himself realizes it\u2019s a very important formality\u2014he staged an insurrection to try to prevent Biden from being certified almost four years ago. I\u2019m sure folks remember.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis is the third go-around where the GOP have imploded over picking a speaker. It took 15 votes to get Mike Johnson, a relative unknown, into office that last time. Almost two weeks. That takes us very close to January 20th<\/sup>, you know?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLiving where I do, I know any number of idiots who opine that the United States would be better off without a government. Or they want a government in charge of cops and the military and nothing else, thus owing nothing to the people. Every so often I point out that if government spending is the heart of the economy, keeping the blood flowing, then governance is the brain. The United States without a government, one responsible to the people, is just another shit hole country like Russia or Hungary, and at worse is a vast anarchy like Somalia. It would fly apart, and there\u2019s maybe ten states with the economic might and diversity to survive as sovereign nations. Most of the red states would be economic basket cases without the support of the nation.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe MAGAts, who love America but hate the United States, may be taking us on the first step along that path.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI\u2019ve suggested this before, and now I\u2019ll do so again: if just five Republicans cross the aisle, and become Democrats, this would not only provide the country with a functional Congress, but blunt the horrors that Trump hopes to visit upon us. He\u2019d threaten to primary them like he does, but as Dems, they would be facing a Republican in the next election anyway.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt\u2019s unlikely to happen, but if enough simply abstain from voting at some point in the Speaker votes to come, Hakeem Jeffries could take over, and the country can remain functional.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTrump is bad. Anarchy with Trump pretending to be president would be even worse.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson January 3rd, 2025 For those of you familiar with Marc Antony\u2019s speech in Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caesar, no, I didn\u2019t transpose the famous quote. This isn\u2019t a mustering of the troops. This is just an avoidable dog fight amongst mangy curs scrapping over carrion. I\u2019m referring to the opening day of the 119th … <\/p>\n

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