Or at least thats how its supposed to be working. Instead its working out in a way much more reminstant of this verse from Metallica's King Nothing
"Wish I may, wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold, dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?
All the wants you waste
All the things you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown,
King Nothing?
Where’s your crown?"
Cause yea, so far it seems the hunt for the speakers gavel is just destroying republicans left and right.
We start with the man, who had been widely believed to be the heir apparent, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy....and well he got off to a rocky start:
First there was this in his announcement of running for speaker which contained a lot of lines like these:
I have visited Poland, Hungria, Estonia,”
[I have]“visited in our, uh, the allies in the Arab Gulf."
We must engage this war of radical Islam if our life depended on it. Because it does.
This "safe zone" would create a stem a flow of refugees
Unlike during the surge in Iraq when Petraeus and Crocker had an effective politically strategy to match the military strategy
We have isolated Israel, while bolding places like Iran.
The absence of leadership over the past six years has had a horrific consequences all across the globe.
“live on the greatest nation that’s ever been on the face of the Earth.”
[president obama should be blamed for] “putting us in tough decisions for the future,”
[The VA should be criticized for not assisting vets]“who fought to the death in Ramadi.”
Keep in mind, these are ALL from the same 30 minute or so long announcement speech. That's a palinesque mastery of the English language. But according to his campaign, it wasnt his fault, he forgot his glasses and couldnt read the speech.
Sadly for him though, by the end of the day, glasses where the least of his problems, cause then this happened:
Now this is not exactly shocking. When the 8 previous congressional committee investigations (including ones chaired by republicans) turned up nothing, a lot of people didnt actually see the point for this new committee, and claimed it was formed for that purpose.
Which of course republicans denied, they claimed the 8 previous committees hadnt had the oversight to get EVERYTHING needed, and this committee would.
Now maybe you didnt believe that, but maybe you did.
But if you did the man assumed to be the new most powerful republican in Washington, just told you that you were wrong and the entire thing was partisan from the beginning, and was never intended to do anything other than hurt Clinton in the polls. And well, its set off all kinds of shockwaves in Washington....and not all of them are coming from the Democrats (who are considering no longer showing up at committee hearings and various other measures now that this seems to be partisan poltics to hurt the presumed democratic nominee for president)
For example:
Now maybe you think I'm overplaying how bad a mistake this was, but McCarthy seems to think he fucked up, since he went back on FOX news a few days later to try to reverse himself.
Oh and then, after the apology people actually noticed this in an interview he had previously done on CNN:
And actually, McCarthy isnt the only one to take a hit on this, right in the middle of all this a statement was released suggesting the head of the select committee that's doing all this investigation to hurt clinton, and who had been considered one of the possible tea party candidates for speaker, Trey Gowdy was retiring from congress.
Now admittedly that wasnt exactly accurate, Gowdy was in fact only announcing that he will no longer be considering running for Speaker, he was just so convincing about it several republican members of congress misunderstood and thought he was retiring. This came the day after Speaker Boehner met with Gowdy to talk him into challenging McCarthy for the job.
Now to be far, I cant prove the two are related, but given that Gowdy took himself out of the race in the days between McCarthy's original statement and backtrack.....and it would be Gowdy who would take the heat if his committee was believed to be nothing more than a thinly disguised partisan witch hunt......well its easily believable he just decided he'd rather not feel the heat.
And actually, stories not over yet. Cause after announcing he was out, Gowdy was endorse for speaker by congresswoman Mia Love, and also Representative Jason Chaffetz, who was the guy in my second video example of republicans criticizing McCarty, who stated in that video he endorsed McCarthy.
So I guess he switched sides because of how badly McCarthy botched things right? I guess, but he didnt stay on Team Gowdy long, because the next day:
First there was this in his announcement of running for speaker which contained a lot of lines like these:
I have visited Poland, Hungria, Estonia,”
[I have]“visited in our, uh, the allies in the Arab Gulf."
We must engage this war of radical Islam if our life depended on it. Because it does.
This "safe zone" would create a stem a flow of refugees
Unlike during the surge in Iraq when Petraeus and Crocker had an effective politically strategy to match the military strategy
We have isolated Israel, while bolding places like Iran.
The absence of leadership over the past six years has had a horrific consequences all across the globe.
“live on the greatest nation that’s ever been on the face of the Earth.”
[president obama should be blamed for] “putting us in tough decisions for the future,”
[The VA should be criticized for not assisting vets]“who fought to the death in Ramadi.”
Keep in mind, these are ALL from the same 30 minute or so long announcement speech. That's a palinesque mastery of the English language. But according to his campaign, it wasnt his fault, he forgot his glasses and couldnt read the speech.
Sadly for him though, by the end of the day, glasses where the least of his problems, cause then this happened:
That, for the uninitiated was the heir apparent to the speakers gavel saying that, the longer running special committee in history, outlasting the watergate investigation, the McCarthy HUAC investigations, the JKF assassination investigation ect, was done ENTIRELY to hurt Hilary Clinton's poll numbers.
Now this is not exactly shocking. When the 8 previous congressional committee investigations (including ones chaired by republicans) turned up nothing, a lot of people didnt actually see the point for this new committee, and claimed it was formed for that purpose.
Which of course republicans denied, they claimed the 8 previous committees hadnt had the oversight to get EVERYTHING needed, and this committee would.
Now maybe you didnt believe that, but maybe you did.
But if you did the man assumed to be the new most powerful republican in Washington, just told you that you were wrong and the entire thing was partisan from the beginning, and was never intended to do anything other than hurt Clinton in the polls. And well, its set off all kinds of shockwaves in Washington....and not all of them are coming from the Democrats (who are considering no longer showing up at committee hearings and various other measures now that this seems to be partisan poltics to hurt the presumed democratic nominee for president)
For example:
Problem is, this didnt exactly help McCarthy's case for looking competent, as there are multiple instances of him pretty badly botching sentences/forgetting words in the middle........which is odd since there was no speech to read this time, so he cant blame this one on a lack of glasses.
Oh and then, after the apology people actually noticed this in an interview he had previously done on CNN:
That would be a SECOND mention of the primary accomplishment of the select committee being that they hurt Clinton's Poll numbers, made in a different interview on a different network. Which makes his suggestion that he just "misspoke" that one time very very very unlikely.
And actually, McCarthy isnt the only one to take a hit on this, right in the middle of all this a statement was released suggesting the head of the select committee that's doing all this investigation to hurt clinton, and who had been considered one of the possible tea party candidates for speaker, Trey Gowdy was retiring from congress.
Now admittedly that wasnt exactly accurate, Gowdy was in fact only announcing that he will no longer be considering running for Speaker, he was just so convincing about it several republican members of congress misunderstood and thought he was retiring. This came the day after Speaker Boehner met with Gowdy to talk him into challenging McCarthy for the job.
Now to be far, I cant prove the two are related, but given that Gowdy took himself out of the race in the days between McCarthy's original statement and backtrack.....and it would be Gowdy who would take the heat if his committee was believed to be nothing more than a thinly disguised partisan witch hunt......well its easily believable he just decided he'd rather not feel the heat.
And actually, stories not over yet. Cause after announcing he was out, Gowdy was endorse for speaker by congresswoman Mia Love, and also Representative Jason Chaffetz, who was the guy in my second video example of republicans criticizing McCarty, who stated in that video he endorsed McCarthy.
So I guess he switched sides because of how badly McCarthy botched things right? I guess, but he didnt stay on Team Gowdy long, because the next day:
Finally, a republican who wants to be speaker who isnt at all involved it the self implosion McCarthy kicked off. I guess we finally have a winner right?
Not so much. turns out there is one person Jason Chaffertz didnt count on, who may have just derailed his bid for Speaker....Planned Parenthoods lawyer.
Check this out, from the same day Chaffetz announced his run
Not so much. turns out there is one person Jason Chaffertz didnt count on, who may have just derailed his bid for Speaker....Planned Parenthoods lawyer.
Check this out, from the same day Chaffetz announced his run
Now the last question by a committee member in a hearing is usually their big gun/main point question. And Chaffetz had his big chart ready to drop the hammer on Planned Parenthood.....clearly didnt go the way the wanted. And he had nothing to counter with, given how fast he moved on to the next speaker.
But I mean, how could he know Planned Parenthoods lawyer would recognize that chart in seconds?
Well actually as it turns out, it wouldnt have been hard to guess.
Now its a bit hard to see due to the corperate logo crap on the screen, so this is a picture of the same slide Chaffetz used:
But I mean, how could he know Planned Parenthoods lawyer would recognize that chart in seconds?
Well actually as it turns out, it wouldnt have been hard to guess.
Now its a bit hard to see due to the corperate logo crap on the screen, so this is a picture of the same slide Chaffetz used:
Now direct your attention to the bottom right corner......yep there it is on the slide itself, "SOURCE: AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE"
Yea thats right, the lawyer likely didnt recognize the chart...he just read it....unlike apparently Chaffetz.
Yea thats right, the lawyer likely didnt recognize the chart...he just read it....unlike apparently Chaffetz.
Cause see its unlikely Chaffetz was intentionally trying to lie.....after all if he was, you'd think he'd be smart enough to remove the source from the bottom. Cause really I doubt even he is that stupid.
of course the alternative to being that stupid isn't much better. The alternative is that the head of the committee looking into planned parenthood couldnt even be bothered to read his own evidence before presenting it, and therefore likely has no idea what hes actually talking about.
Neither of those are good alternatives if your trying to convince people your competent enough to be Speaker of the House....
And actually they get worse the more you look at the chart. You will note as well the chart is missing a Y axis......which actually makes sense if you look at the numbers. Consider, the number of Cancer screenings preformed by Planned Parenthood in 2013, according to that chart is 935,573....which is a significantly larger number than the 327,000 abortions preformed......yet is actually placed below the smaller number.
Of course, maybe I cant blame this one on Chaffetz, this could just be another example of the same republican math in which in which the 3rd presidential debate was the "1st" the 5th was "2nd" and the 6th (or 7th) is "3rd"
All I know is, its been a catastrophic week for all the potential republican candidates for speaker.
Hopefully they can find someone who can NOT implode in 24 hours or less before the election.
Which by the way is in 4 days, on October 8th. So I suggest they look FAST.
otherwise, maybe the chances of 29 republicans taking a long lunch break, and thereby not voting (and what that means), is a lot more likely than I think.....
of course the alternative to being that stupid isn't much better. The alternative is that the head of the committee looking into planned parenthood couldnt even be bothered to read his own evidence before presenting it, and therefore likely has no idea what hes actually talking about.
Neither of those are good alternatives if your trying to convince people your competent enough to be Speaker of the House....
And actually they get worse the more you look at the chart. You will note as well the chart is missing a Y axis......which actually makes sense if you look at the numbers. Consider, the number of Cancer screenings preformed by Planned Parenthood in 2013, according to that chart is 935,573....which is a significantly larger number than the 327,000 abortions preformed......yet is actually placed below the smaller number.
Of course, maybe I cant blame this one on Chaffetz, this could just be another example of the same republican math in which in which the 3rd presidential debate was the "1st" the 5th was "2nd" and the 6th (or 7th) is "3rd"
All I know is, its been a catastrophic week for all the potential republican candidates for speaker.
Hopefully they can find someone who can NOT implode in 24 hours or less before the election.
Which by the way is in 4 days, on October 8th. So I suggest they look FAST.
otherwise, maybe the chances of 29 republicans taking a long lunch break, and thereby not voting (and what that means), is a lot more likely than I think.....
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