I would just call Vos up if I were Evers. And tell him, 'Listen, she can resign and I can reinstate her or someone else very easily. We can do this day after day. But it will be a lot harder for you to get the House in every day of the year. Sometimes 4 times a day. Is that what you want? You'll look like a horse's ass. But go for it, bro.'
I would just call Vos up if I were Evers. And tell him, 'Listen, she can resign and I can reinstate her or someone else very easily. We can do this day after day. But it will be a lot harder for you to get the House in every day of the year. Sometimes 4 times a day. Is that what you want? You'll look like a horse's ass. But go for it, bro.'
Your point is well made from a common sense point of view. But one thing we've learned here is that Robin Vos, full of himself as he is by nature and drunk with power, does not listen to anyone whom he does not want to hear. He and Evers have been at loggerheads since the day Evers took office, largely because Vos refuses to accept his political legitimacy. That will not change. Neither scare tactics nor reason move him. He is leading the charge up Mt. Antidemocracy as if on a mission from God. In the eyes of more reasonable, open-minded people Vos is the worst example of the worst type of politician. And we are stuck with him as long as his safe conservative district agrees with him that owning the libs is more important than good governance.
I live in Arizona and don't know any of the folks involved in this drama. But my guess is that you are right. Vos couldn't care less about how rational people perceive his antics. If he did, he wouldn't have even thought about pulling this kind of stunt, let alone actually floated the idea for fear of public ridicule or just a sense of shame for even thinking of such an antidemocratic idea as this. But in the modern GOP martyrdom for standing up to the "evil" Dems is carried as a badge of honor even if the issue at hand is stupid and childish and profoundly wrong. The fight is the point. The bottom line is this: someone with even a small, atrophied sense of shame would never even start down the road that Vos has. Since he has, however, it seems clear to me that any attempt to shame him into acting like an adult is doomed to failure.
"Petty and pointless" is standard operating procedure for the repukes. It runs the gamut from national, state to local. Imagine somebody asking you to quit your job you just hired into, because they anticipate you might make a decision they disagree with.
The Mission from God bit is understated for so many of these sorts of shenanigans. It needs much more attention. Their god says the ends justify the means, and so it goes.
I would just call Vos up if I were Evers. And tell him, 'Listen, she can resign and I can reinstate her or someone else very easily. We can do this day after day. But it will be a lot harder for you to get the House in every day of the year. Sometimes 4 times a day. Is that what you want? You'll look like a horse's ass. But go for it, bro.'
Your point is well made from a common sense point of view. But one thing we've learned here is that Robin Vos, full of himself as he is by nature and drunk with power, does not listen to anyone whom he does not want to hear. He and Evers have been at loggerheads since the day Evers took office, largely because Vos refuses to accept his political legitimacy. That will not change. Neither scare tactics nor reason move him. He is leading the charge up Mt. Antidemocracy as if on a mission from God. In the eyes of more reasonable, open-minded people Vos is the worst example of the worst type of politician. And we are stuck with him as long as his safe conservative district agrees with him that owning the libs is more important than good governance.
I live in Arizona and don't know any of the folks involved in this drama. But my guess is that you are right. Vos couldn't care less about how rational people perceive his antics. If he did, he wouldn't have even thought about pulling this kind of stunt, let alone actually floated the idea for fear of public ridicule or just a sense of shame for even thinking of such an antidemocratic idea as this. But in the modern GOP martyrdom for standing up to the "evil" Dems is carried as a badge of honor even if the issue at hand is stupid and childish and profoundly wrong. The fight is the point. The bottom line is this: someone with even a small, atrophied sense of shame would never even start down the road that Vos has. Since he has, however, it seems clear to me that any attempt to shame him into acting like an adult is doomed to failure.
"Petty and pointless" is standard operating procedure for the repukes. It runs the gamut from national, state to local. Imagine somebody asking you to quit your job you just hired into, because they anticipate you might make a decision they disagree with.
The Mission from God bit is understated for so many of these sorts of shenanigans. It needs much more attention. Their god says the ends justify the means, and so it goes.
Jake and Elwood Blues: "Me and the Lord; we got an understanding. We're on a mission from God."