I'm going to remain an agnostic on "the devil I know." There's no doubt McCarthy's short reign was head and shoulders above what Jordan or Scalise will be like, if either garners enough votes [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers]. I'm waiting to see who else throws their hat into the ring and who ends up wit…
I'm going to remain an agnostic on "the devil I know." There's no doubt McCarthy's short reign was head and shoulders above what Jordan or Scalise will be like, if either garners enough votes [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers]. I'm waiting to see who else throws their hat into the ring and who ends up with the gavel.
It might be wishcasting, but I believe the new speaker will be more centrist than McCarthy; that's basically the only option if the House ever plans on returning to legislating, and for the Republican party to heal itself; that the new speaker will isolate the denizens of the Psychiatric Facility Escapee Caucus by announcing that bipartisanship is the way forward, or at least as much as is possible, and is the cure for what ails them.
(Actually, Gaetz might have done the country a solid by allowing the House to choose a new speaker that *hasn't* self-castrated to gain the support of the right wing wacks, and can bypass them completely when writing, marking up and passing legislation.)
I'm going to remain an agnostic on "the devil I know." There's no doubt McCarthy's short reign was head and shoulders above what Jordan or Scalise will be like, if either garners enough votes [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers]. I'm waiting to see who else throws their hat into the ring and who ends up with the gavel.
It might be wishcasting, but I believe the new speaker will be more centrist than McCarthy; that's basically the only option if the House ever plans on returning to legislating, and for the Republican party to heal itself; that the new speaker will isolate the denizens of the Psychiatric Facility Escapee Caucus by announcing that bipartisanship is the way forward, or at least as much as is possible, and is the cure for what ails them.
(Actually, Gaetz might have done the country a solid by allowing the House to choose a new speaker that *hasn't* self-castrated to gain the support of the right wing wacks, and can bypass them completely when writing, marking up and passing legislation.)
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The devil you know?
“Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
The Merchant of Venice