Hanging by a thread
The Republican House is heading for a fall. It is almost January. So far, the GOP House caucus is heading into January with — chaos. The stench of Matt Gaetz has not quite left the building yet. Added to that is the endless squabbling about a Government shutdown. Perhaps this shutdown will have been averted by the time you read this, or perhaps it will have happened. At the time of this writing, nobody really knows WHAT the House GOP caucus will do—including the members themselves.
Added to all this is the GOP majority, which is hanging by a very thin thread.
Trump raided the House cookie jar, snapping to several members to give them cabinet positions. Now we have the whole caucus engaged in endless squabbles. I watched all the coverage the other evening to report on it. All I saw was a landslide of crazy going on as Republicans screamed and carried on, blaming Democrats, blaming each other, and offering few answers as to how they could make all this right.
Now, as Bill Palmer explained, Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz announced that she will not participate in the Republican caucus. Mike Johnson is being pilloried by extreme right house members, with some suggesting Elon take over as speaker.
So, when you combine all of this, you see a party that has no idea how to govern or how to do its jobs. In MOST industries, this would be enough to get them all fired. But politics is a different animal entirely.
These nimrods are here for better or worse for now. For the time being,it is definitely for WORSE. Somehow, they have to learn sticking their tongues out at the American people and playing politics isn’t why they were elected.
I truly doubt at this point that any of these people are competent. They do have choices, and choice is an option given to every human being. In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” there is the famous line: “To be or not to be.”
Hamlet is concerned about life and death. I think House Republicans need to do a slight variation on this speech and ask themselves: “To govern or not to govern.”
Are these people willing to spend the next few years in servitude, not just to Donald Trump but now it appears to Elon Musk? They’ve already thrown out their dignity. That’s gone, baby gone. But now it isn’t just Trump; it’s Musk, too.
How many narcissists are they willing to roll over for? How many idiots are they willing to forfeit their honor for?
Playing chicken in times such as this can only bring dishonor and pain. Shakespeare has been on my mind, and I quoted Hamlet because the entire fall of the Republican Party is, as many have said before, Shakespearean in nature.
Shakespeare’s plays usually did not end well. Given what we know about this political party, I do not see a happy ending for republicans either.
