(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Shhh! Don’t Mention Cages [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 By David Glenn Cox Kevin McCarthy says, “It’s personal.” Matt Gaetz says it’s about being engaged and an effective proud god-fearing Merican leader. So, Matt doesn’t like Kevin and the feeling is mutual. So, after Matt’s recent national rebuke and public embarrassment. He vows to have his vengeance on Kevin and is in no way not afraid of embarrassing himself, yet again. Matt will make a motion for the Speaker to vacate sometime this week. Only there are a few stumbling blocks in the road starting with Matt is not very popular. Hard to carry a vote so politically handicapped. This motion to vacate has elusive positive outcomes and obvious negatives. Say, for example; Matt’s motion to vacate gets only four votes, five including Matt’s vote. Who looks the fool then? Exposed naked before his peers! The Tasmanian Devil exposed as just so much wind. Grand Wizard leader of a movement of one on a committee of one. Suddenly, like magic, the motion to vacate becomes a referendum on Matt Gaetz. You know, there’s an old saying that goes, “A court-martial ruins two careers. The officer accused and the officer who brought the charges.” You got ta go along to get along, the nail that sticks up will be hammered down. And could there be so many who wish to hold that hammer? Anxious to assist in doing the hammering part. A New York Post story says if Matt makes his motion to vacate the chamber will move to expel Matt Gaetz from the house. What woah Shaggy! But it’s the New York Post (Fox) but maybe it’s true. It could be true maybe sometimes. Imagine your Party has a razor thin majority and needs every last vote. Willing to throw you out in the street. Flat, cold and period with few questions asked. How pissed off would the Party of George Santos have to be? The Republican Party is more than willing to tolerate criminals, just not unpleasant or disagreeable ones. Meddling troublesome Dennis, the Menace types out to make Mister Wilson look bad. In turn, making headaches for all. One toke over the line sweet Jesus, one toke over the line. Booting Gaetz like an extra point would be a nuclear option. Nothing says Party in complete meltdown quite like ejecting members because you can’t stand them. Stopping the car on the side of the road and just putting him out. At best, it’s an idle (I’ll turn this car around) threat. It’s management’s way of warning, don’t try it. It explains a lot if true, but how could Republicans ever explain it? So’s your average AM Hate Radio listener could ever understand it. George Santos stays, but Matt Gaetz has to go? Any motion to expel Gaetz requires a two-third’s majority vote. Hmmm, I wonder how the Democrats would vote in this situation? Dethrone Kevin or get rid of Matt, legislating is such hard work. “Give me a few days to think about it, yes!” Strange times indeed, Republicans mud wrestling for supremacy in a public civil war. The Trump flunky doing the will of his orange leader rebuked, ostracized and marginalized. Maybe that has something to do with Matt wanting to run for Governor in Florida. Does anyone else smell any burnt bridges around here? A convenient out as Ron DeSantis is term limited into obscurity. Ron has the temerity to say with a straight face, that he would not accept the Vice-Presidential slot, if offered by Donald Trump. Woo who, me neither! Hell No! I wouldn’t sign on to that Flying Dutchman crew either. But Remember, if the President is incapacitated or unable to fulfill the duties due to illness or prison sentence, well. It might be Ron DeSantis’s best chance at reaching the White House. There’s only one problem, the Trump campaign wouldn’t ever offer it to Ron. Think Mike Pence here. Milk toast almost transparent, quietly fits nicely into any background. There is only one spotlight on the Trump stage and the boss doesn’t share it with nobody. If I were four inches shorter and Ron, I wouldn’t have answered that question. Ron pooh, poohed the suggestion with the old “I’m running for President” routine. Way too much bad blood between the candidates to put Ron DeSanctimonious on the ticket. You know, the guy with the personality of rewarmed Tofu. The same Ron Trump said, begged for his support. But there is a more obvious reason DeSantis wouldn’t be chosen and it involves altitude. Trump is 6’3 and Ronnie is 5’9 and every campaign photo would look like a father and son picture. Laurel & Hardy with the slightly built DeSantis as Laurel, towered over by the 215-pound tall Trump as Oliver Hardy. Politics is a brutal business; you must be at least this tall to ride “The Ticket” thrill ride. Straight off the Republicaloosa government shut down tour. Matt Gaetz brings us his motion to vacate encore! The rumble in the stumble! The shootout at no pass, pass! Malevolent Matt vs. Kevin from the 7-11. But Kevin holds two aces in his pocket. First nobody else wants the job as speaker and secondly, nobody likes Matt Gaetz. And were Matt just a self-important ambitious rat faced little monkey his political demise could be discounted as a long time in coming. (Attn: MTG) But this is the papered ambassador of his hind ass Donald Trump. Abused and rebuffed and threatened with expulsion. Do the Republicans just not care who Gaetz is working for? A slight to Gaetz is a slight to Trump. You throw Trump’s boy out and there is gonna be trouble down to the Ponderosa. Like two galactic forces pulling on each other in a gravitational test of strength, until one or the other crumbles to dust. But wait, don’t order now! This is just the beginning; we’re just getting warmed up here. Just wait until the Republican convention, aka the Milwaukee Massacre! The house Republicans are making it clear they’re willing to purge their own, freeing themselves from Trump dumb. They ain’t going back down that Trump road again Bubba. They will venerate his name and say nice things, but the tea leaves and the magic eight ball say, “not again.” Easy to say but harder to do after Trump has a few primaries under his belt. And there is no alternative candidate within twenty points. But irony is not dead. A Trump supporter sent Niki Haley a birdcage in reference to Trump’s remark calling Nikki a Bird Brain. I dunno if I were a Trump supporter if I’d mention anything about cages publicly, at least to anyone. “Never talk about rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.” – Harry Truman [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/2/2196876/-Shhh-Don-t-Mention-Cages Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/