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Karn Evil 9 – 1st Impression, Emerson Lake & Palmer
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Welcome to the show that currently is never ending which is now into Day Four of crushing Representative Kevin McCarthy’s soul if not will to continue oxygenating his blood.
The nominations for the 12th vote kick off with Representative Matt Gaetz showing once again what an unrepentant twat he can be with a blistering speech accusing McCarthy of being an utter an complete sell-out to the highest bidder and someone willing to betray anyone for the possibility of political power. During his screed excoriating McCarthy, he draws howls of protest multiple times including when he complains that McCarthy asked for a list of representatives to serve on the Rules committee as well as fly-in Mondays only to turn round and release that list to the press characterised as a bunch of rotters only looking out for jobs for themselves.
That was essentially true.
But given Gaetz’s own shocking deviations from the truth with a disturbing regularity and the fact that he’d sell his own grandmother for political gain, it rather reeks of hypocrisy for him to point out the failings of his colleagues when the plank in his own eye is rather large.
Lest we forget, Matt Gaetz was once under investigation for sex-trafficking and the only reason the Department of Justice isn’t pushing forward with charges is that the two star witnesses have huge credibility issues.
That combined with his fealty toward former President Trump who Gaetz asked for a pardon doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in his honesty and rectitude!
He eventually gets round to nominating Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio who does not want the job (he wants to chair Judiciary instead so he can wage a personal war against President Biden) and Ammo-Barbie nominates Representative Kevin Hern again and we’re off on the 12th vote:
- Representative Biggs votes for Jordan
- Representative Bishop of NC flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Brecheen flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Boebert votes for Hern
- Representative Cloud flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Clyde flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Crane votes for Hern
- Representative Donalds flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Gaetz votes for Jordan
- Representative Good votes for Jordan (and is the vote that presumably has buggered this round of voting)
- Representative Harris votes for Jordan
- Representative Luna flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Miller of IL flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Norman flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Perry flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Rosendale votes for Kevin……HERN! (Nicely done! 😉
- Representative Roy flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Self flipped to McCarthy
- Representative Spartz flipped from voting PRESENT to McCarthy
The Clerk then asks for votes from the ones who didn’t answer to the roll call the first time through.
- Representative Gosar flipped to McCarthy and does so right next to Matt Gaetz who looks like he’s going to lose his breakfast with that announcement as Gosar stalks away with a satisfied grin on his face.
- Representative Ogles flipped to McCarthy
By my count, that’s fourteen flipped to McCarthy by goodness only knows what bribes, payoffs, and promises have been made to them by the McCarthy camp. They’re definitely closer than they were but still insufficient for election and the remaining holdouts are going to be much tougher nuts to crack as some of them just hate McCarthy on a personal level and they will never vote for him. There are about three or four in that group and that’s the only ones that McCarthy can afford to lose during the vote.
So now we’re off to the 13th vote so now it’s Representative James Comer’s of Kentucky turn to nominate McCarthy with the usual complaints in his nominating speech with the usual whinging about the border, spending being out of control, and of course the fear-porn of the flooding of the streets with fentanyl (which to be sure is a problem but Congress hasn’t cared about fentanyl until polling showed it’s a great way of scaring the hell out of people).
Sadly, we’ve got to leave it here to go collect the kids from school and I’ll miss the crazies nominating their “person who has no hope in hell of being Speaker to be Speaker” and their increasingly mad speeches… 🙂