The recent (October 3, 2023) ouster of the House Speaker, was a clear departure from the history of our legislative house membership. Never in our history has a Speaker of the House been removed from his position. NEVER! Yes, the rogue rabid right wing fascists, headed up by Matt Gaetz (of course from the fascist Florida cabal), voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his role as Speaker of the House. His Crime? Simply working in a bipartisan way to conduct business of the United States Congressional House. Oh Horrors.
Understand, folks, I am not defending McCarthy, I have always believed that he was a lying, morally deficient, anti-democracy slug that for some reason the folks in his district continued to hold their noses since 2006 and put that scum sucking pig back into office. BUT, and I stress this strongly, removing the Speaker of the House in this manner is totally opposite from the operational environment of our House in all of our history as the oldest continuing democracy. Yet with morality and decency in the Republican Party at such a low state it is not surprising, disappointing and shameful, but not surprising.
To compound the horror of this idiotic action by the far right members of the GQP, the forerunner candidates for the next Speaker are two of the most undeserving of such a role of authority. Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are the primary candidates identified so far. And supposedly they are going to be establishing the slate of candidates then having the actual vote for a new Speaker on Tuesday October 10, and Wednesday October 11 for the actual vote. To point out just how horrible this current Republican group is, there is even talk of letting that corrupt, criminal, multiple indicted thug Trump compete for Speaker.
Supposedly the Speaker doesn’t even have to be an elected Representative. I find that difficult to comprehend, that an unelected man or woman could actually be installed as the most important official of the majority party of the House.
But, stupider things have been showing up in our government, especially the House and the Supreme Court.
Jim Jordan has done nothing in his tenure as a House Representative in the entire time from his first election in 2006. He has posted no legislation, contributed no legislative support and has only participated in the House deliberations by being an antagonistic, witness harassing and insulting, bomb throwing, roadblock for the House and the national legislative process. He has been a caustic, insulting, insufferable jerk in the entire time he has been drawing that six figure congressional salary having been returned by those people in Ohio who must have held their nose each election. Otherwise, I cannot imagine why any thinking person would consider this ass as a representative of our people and our rule of legislative actions and financial responsibility.
Steve Scalise is another right winger hoping for enough votes to sully the Speaker position again. I have no detail information to cause my animosity for Scalise, other than his membership in the multiple rabid right wing groups whose sole focus it to keep the Republicans from doing any damn thing to benefit the American Citizenry. Nothing. Having been born and partly raised in Louisiana, and who still has some family members in that state, I have been aware of the machinations of the Right Wing Louisiana Corrupt Politicians and Scalise is right there among that group. I still communicate with some of my relatives in Louisiana (admittedly not many of them, due to strong political and theological differences), but those I do continue to communicate with are not pleased with their right wing political hacks with Scalise at the top of that bunch. His actions in the Congress, while not as bombastic as Jordan, Green, Boebert, and the others in that group of idiots, he still shows his rabid right wing credentials every time he speaks to the press or news media. Of course, he is in the majority of instances, simply parroting the bull shit lies and anti-individual rights put forth by the fascist propaganda mill of the Republican party and their publicity mediums, like Fox and NewsMax.
The last thing this congress needs is another knuckle dragging right wing fascist in the Speaker’s office. But that is what we will more than likely see coming out of this proceedings on Wednesday October 11th.
Simply put folks, just another example of the total destruction of a once honorable political party. I would imagine that the likes of Dwight Eisenhower and that honorable group of former Republicans are turning over in their respective burial plots. Obviously this group of thugs, especially those such as Gaetz, Buck, Biggs, Mace, Good, etc. have no intention or even the capability of governing for this nation. They are among the most vicious of the rabid right wing fascists who were elected to the office of Congressional Representative. And elected for their local election districts by voters who evidently were not practicing situational awareness, or were of the same mindset as those vicious dishonorable cretins they sent to congress and are paid by national taxpayers.
While I strongly suspected that the ouster of McCarthy would likely happen, and Gaetz made no attempt to hide intentions, considering his lack of honor and integrity during his entire time of squatting in the People’s House. And his years of suckling off the taxpayer teats for publicity and money he doesn’t deserve. It was certainly assumed by this old curmudgeon that he would be the asshole who would file the documentation to call for the ouster. This is the same dishonorable scum who has been described as a sexual predator but has, as our multi-tiered judicial system and our corporate news media often does, escaped proper arrest, trial, sentencing and incarceration. Yet this vile creature continues to sit in the once honorable House of Representatives, drawing his six figure salary and doing not a single damn thing for the United States and it’s citizens. And it should be noted that those “honorable, moderate Republicans” haven’t done a damn thing about censoring or even expelling these insulting, vile and vicious people from the people’s Congress. But such is the posture of a significant majority of the Republican Party political cult. While the media continues to mention a group of Republicans who are moderate and not bomb throwers like Jordan and the Gaetz schoolyard bullies, I have yet to witness a single action by these so called moderates that would blunt the fascist degradation of the once decent Republican Party. It is now more representative of historical autocracies, fascist dictatorships, or theocratic inhuman regimes. Sadly so.
Those members of the current Republican fascist group, who countenance violence, vicious verbal assaults, and supporting of the lies and propaganda, are very similar to the Brownshirts and para’s active during the beginnings of the Hitlerian dictatorship of 1930s Germany. And in that comparison, the multitudes of German citizens, who continued to turn a blind eye to the destruction of their country and the subjugation of certain types of citizens! Just like our present right wing American citizens who are also turning a blind eye, OR are actively promoting the destruction of the United States of America and the democracy fostered by the founding citizens at our earliest beginnings. The movement of the Republican Party since the end of the Eisenhower administration has been enhanced by the likes of several of the follow-on Republican presidents who allowed, encouraged and enacted the rise of the current Republican Fascist Cult. One of the key decisions by a president to foster this current right wing environment, was Ronald Reagan who gutted the Fairness Doctrine. This action led to the rabid rabble rousing, lying propaganda spewing likes of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Channel, NewsMax, and the rest of those propaganda mills. See, Donald Trump, as vile a human as he is, was simply the personification of the destruction of the Party by the right wing Christo-Fascist individuals who preached the violence, and ant-democracy actions evolving into the current political abomination.
Can we survive the growing trend toward a ChristoFascist autocratic regimes? Yes, we can! We are stronger than this, folks. We have had tens of thousands of our young men and women who stood up and suffered injury and death, fighting against the Fascist Regimes in the 40s and to defend the American way of life. We have also seen countless millions who have stood strong with political actions and voting to defend the U.S. citizens for the long life of our American individual rights and our society based on the ideals of democracy. We, the People, will hopefully continue to act for our protection from the fascist, theocratic horrors that the right wing Republicans would have us be exposed to. All at the behest of the uber-wealthy and the mega corporate titans.
We Are Better Than This, People. Stop with the head in the sand crap, get off your couch, and stand up for America, for democracy, for individual freedom from the theocratic fascist dictatorships the Republicans and the wealthy want to impose on our country.
Otherwise, we will see a rise of a Fifth Reich in our nation, and there will be no Allied Forces around to save us from our stupidity!
Musings of a Geriatric Curmudgeon 