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Grins

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27. There is one fact....

Mon Nov 24, 2025, 01:52 PM

20 hrs ago

Been saying this for quite a while.

The hatred the Reich had for Boehner, followed by the hatred they had for Ryan. Then the big one: McCarthy. For whom it took a historic FIFTEEN ballots to get elected. He was Speaker for all of nine months, then the GOP's internal Coup d'Etat. For the first time in congressional history the House voted to remove an incumbent speaker.

Competition from "Gym" Jordan, and Steve Scalise, and Tom Emmer - all of them hated internally within their own party. So bad they settled on noted closet case and Leader of the Anti-Socialist Forces, Patrick McHenry, who was so "I've had it!," he quit Congress soon after, to be Speaker pro tempore.

After another 7-plus ballots without resolution, they settled for the most inoffensive, unobjectionable GOP Speaker they could get. That guy was Dennis Hastert. A child predator.

My argument: Republicans are incapable of governing.

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