republican Agenda???

From The Economist

"Choosing the Speaker of America’s House of Representatives, an important office whose holder is second-in-line for the presidency, ordinarily requires only one round of voting. The last exception to this was a century ago, when progressive Republicans held up their party’s candidate. With no Speaker, no legislation can progress and no new members can be sworn in. This leaves the people temporarily without representation. The move is therefore a drastic one for the Never Kevins to make. So why did they do it?

"Not, surely, in opposition to Mr. McCarthy’s proposed agenda. Released before the midterm elections in November 2022, his “Commitment to America” would struggle to fill a postcard with policies that are within the power of Congress to enact".

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If the republicans had had an agenda - ever in our lifetimes - since 2016 we would have a health care system that covered everyone for everything and be the envy of the world.

donnie promised that.

We still have 40 million Americans without health care and the associated financial catastrophes that that lack portends.

donnie the dildo promised that that would not last even days into his "presidency".

It has lasted until today.

donnie also was going to "drain the swamp".

During his blovisity a lot of water flowed into that swamp, nutrient rich water, that allowed for new denizens to swim into the swamp and be fed from the pocketbooks and change jars of "the rest of us" during donnie's tenure.

So the drained swamp and the unbelievable health care systems were hallucinations of a mad man, not an agenda.

But that was pretty much what passed as the republican agenda back then.

That and love of the great leader.

The one thing the dildo did was cut taxes for billionaires.

That allowed for more denizens to be able to pay the upfront fees to float into the swamp.

Those are pretty much the results of republican dominance, 2017 to 2021.

I'd hardly call that an agenda.

Since the only agenda on the table currently seems to be whether or not Kevin McCarthy can achieve his goal to maximize his pension, I am unable to see why I, or most of anyone who might read this post, gives a shit whether we have a speaker or not.

Since we need a speaker to convene Congress and, therefore for subsequent legislation - legislation like universal health care, universal pre-K schooling and universal, affordable day care - and since, for that kind of legislation, we need an agenda from the party in control of the House, and since, as we have seen, the only agenda item on the table is the pension maximization of the main contender for the office of speaker it really matters not to any average American whether we have a lower house of the legislature or not.

Oh yeah; Ol' Matt Gaetz is bleating about draining the swamp.

So, since the republicans, have no agenda, other than catastrophe and mayhem and various republican nutcases shooting assault weapons at crate boxes, thus reducing said boxes to flying fragments, the only thing that I can see that every day Americans can get out of finally convening the 118th session of the House is entertainment value.

One can only guess at the spineless contortions that Ol' Kevin is going to invoke to keep his unruly compatriots from beheading him in the Rotunda.

But they are bound to be entertaining.

Which is another way of saying, if Ol' Kevin finally gets the gavel, the things he will have had to promise to get it will make Ol' Ron DeSantis blush.

And fart and moan.

And, after blushing, farting and moaning, Ol' Ron will want to pass some laws forbidding that kinda shit.

In Florida.

Sets the stage for a really entertaining and fragrant '24, once donnie gets sent to prison.