Fun little bits of news

Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced late Tuesday that he will file paperwork to nominate former President Trump to be the next Speaker of the House.

“This week, when the U.S. House of Representatives reconvenes, my first order of business will be to nominate Donald J. Trump for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Nehls said in a statement. “President Trump, the greatest President of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America First and will make the House great again.”

What fun!

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McHenry orders Pelosi to vacate Capitol office in one of first acts as Speaker pro tem

Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) ordered Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to vacate her Capitol hideaway office so he could take it over, just hours after becoming acting Speaker, Pelosi’s office said Tuesday.

Pelosi denounced the demand in a statement late Tuesday.

“With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol,” she said.

“This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition,” she continued. “As Speaker, I gave former Speaker Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”

Things is gettin' personal up thar in the House! It's fair to say that there's not going to be much or any bipartisanship or good will going forward. It is a broken institution. It will probably stay broken for quite some time to come. 

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Jim Jordan throws his hat in the ring for Speaker

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday announced he would seek the Speakership.

Barf.

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Republicans Already Barred Trump From Being Speaker of the House

Some Republicans have suggested that Donald Trump should take up the gavel. But the former president's legal troubles could block any efforts to bring him into the House's GOP leadership, according to Republican Conference rules.

But even if Trump had full Republican support in the House, Rule 26 of the GOP Conference states, "A member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years imprisonment may be imposed."

Well, that's no big deal. Just vote Rule 26 out of existence. No, wait. They can't do that because there's no Speaker in the House at present. I'm confused. 🤪

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Trump's sophisticated fraud trial defense is crystallizing:

Trump insisted Tuesday that his organization’s financial documents were not the least bit fraudulent—but even if they were, he couldn’t be held responsible because it was up to the lenders and insurers to fact-check that.

“Also, the financial statements are very strong in terms of cash, liquidity, and everything else. This case is a scam,” Trump continued. “There can’t be fraud when you’ve told institutions to do their own work.”

In other words, it's not fraud when you tell institutions like banks and insurance companies to do their own work to fact check the papers a liar puts in front of them. Hm. Seems like an odd defense. Does that mean bank robbery is legal if the bank has insufficient security? Or, I can say my home is worth 10 times what it is worth and get a big fat loan on that basis and blow all the money on fun stuff like the Fornicator-in-Chief?

Hm, what's that hand in the 

upper right grabbing?

Politics is so confusing . . . . . 

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House speaker contender Steve Scalise reportedly called himself ‘David Duke without the baggage’

Republican, who some say could replace Kevin McCarthy, has had reported associations with ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard

Wheeee! What fun! No baggage, therefore I'm not a racist.

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Gingrich says House GOP should expel ‘anti-Republican’ Gaetz

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called on House Republicans to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and defeat his motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post.

In a scathing op-ed published in The Washington Post, Gingrich attacked the Florida Republican as “anti-Republican” and said Gaetz was engaging in “childish behavior” and “has become actively destructive to the conservative movement.”

Newt (the Stinker) Gingrich? The champion punchbowl Turd Tosser? Now there's a destructive, childish voice out of hell and a fun blast from the toxic past.

People, things in the GOP are in gooood shape.