I Love it When I'm Right!

Last week, in the blog post Whig-ing Out http://progressivecitizenx.blogspot.com/2015/09/whig-ing-out.html, I made the assertion the Republican Party in this country was starting to crash and burn around us.  Today, the evidence supporting my theory is flowing like molten lava through the GOP.

A few hours ago, the US House GOP insisted that a functioning government was too much compromise, and through secret ballot (because I guess they're like the Little Rascals in a treehouse) have torpedoed the House majority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, from his ascension to the House Speaker position, to the audible crying and moaning from whatever is left of the Reagan Republicans (I am not making up the crying and moaning part!).  McCarthy, at best, would've been the Speaker until the holidays, when the far right, loony bin, paddy wagon would've come to drag him from his seat for suggesting the House approve another stop gap spending agreement to keep the country open for business, but his real downfall was due to his alter-ego, Captain Blabby, for validating what the world already knew, the Benghazi hearings were only about hurting Hillary Clinton's chances in the general election.

What this signifies is simple.  After screaming you should never trust government for 35 years, the GOP has become convinced by it's own rhetoric and feels the best thing you can do is shut down the government from within.  They don't understand what they're proposing.  They don't understand the trillions of dollars of costs this will incur, they don't understand the hardships this will place on many in the nation; they don't see the forest for the trees.  They feel they can force the President to eliminate Obama Care, make gay marriage icky again, and completely defund Planned Parenthood, by torturing the country.  Dick Cheney's legacy lives on!  Under the never ending deluge of "President Obama is you enemy!", they've made a herd of blood thirsty zealots who are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.  They think this way: Government is EVIL, President Obama is EVIL, so turning the United States into a dumpster fire is a valid idea.  It's trying to shoot a duck with a tomahawk missile; you're going to wildly miss, and there's going to be a tremendous amount of collateral damage.

And the best part, President Obama won't compromise!  He already has tried to compromise over and over with these fools, and they only want 'their way or the highway.'  The President will not be receptive to them trying to hold a gun to his head.  The GOP will take the blame for adding trillions of dollars to the deficit, expose themselves as being useless at leading in this country, and in turn doom themselves for 2016.

Who'll take over the US House Speaker position?  I don't know, but the mandate from their own party is to shut down the government.  I hope it's a real far righty, one of those guys who spews an amalgamation of misquoted scripture, libertarian ideals and Ted Nugget lyrics.  That would be hilarious!

But the problems don't stop there for the GOP.  We now know the Republicans never really cared about the four dead at Benghazi, only using the investigation to politically hurt one person(!), but the Planned Parenthood hearings are on shaky ground too, as the president of Planned Parenthood spanked the House GOP for using the most outrageous anti-choice talking points to try to take her down.  They also failed to realize using heavily edited and grossly doctored videos as a spring board into an investigation was never going to hold up, so now they have to do everything to avoid calling the "experts" who started this charade, as those people will have no problem coming up to Capitol Hill and saying, "yes we doctored the videos because we hate Planned Parenthood."  They'll try to keep it going, but without fresh evidence of wrongdoing, it'll go nowhere.

The GOP Presidential race is still going great...for the Democrats.  Trump still leads.  Carson, the number two, is sounding like a crazy man, with his tone-deaf, non-sensical, and insensitive defense of guns.  The number three, Carly, is now doing everything to avoid her talking errors, and still has yet to come up with a way to explain her God awful CEO experience.  Meanwhile, legitimate candidates who might at least have a respectable showing in 2016 are slowly running out of money, and having to exit the race.

Let's look at Minnesota!  We had a sex scandal between two married GOP leaders, both of whom were members of the House ETHICS Committee (WOW!), both of whom called a law enforcement officer a liar, and never really apologized to the officer directly.  Then there is the debacle in MN-02, where the imminent retiring of Rep. Kline has created a MNGOP vacuum, with very few Republicans, and none of the prominent names, wanting to try to fill it.  When Jason Lewis, a former radio host who thinks Democrats should be rounded up, is your great white hope, that's not gong well.

But the real sign the MN Republicans are struggling to is the return of Stewart Mills the Third, the transplanted, silver spooned, spoiled brat who ran agains Rick Nolan in the MN-08 race last election, with tons of financial backing, obscene support from the NRA, a local media who was belligerently favoring him and a national GOP wave, and he LOST!  Why would anyone allow him to run again, unless you already know no one else wants to?  Maybe that's it; since no one else wants to waste their time, let Stewie do it again.  At least he has a family inheritance he can waste on it.

How long until the money people who prop up the GOP quietly turn their back and walk away?  How long before they look at this mess and ask the question good business people ask, "what's my return on investment?"  The money might not all dry up, but as of this afternoon, the money for the right is going to become dramatically less.  Without the money to blind the public to their inferior candidates, what will the Republicans do then?

Pardon me - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!