The Clown Car keeps rolling along:
Republican Steve Scalise ended his bid to become House speaker late Thursday after hardline holdouts refused to back the party’s nominee, throwing the GOP majority into deeper chaos with the chamber unable to function.
Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting late Thursday of his decision and pointedly declined to announce backing for anyone else, including his chief rival, Rep. Jim Jordan, the hardline Judiciary Committee chairman backed by Donald Trump who had already told colleagues he no longer would seek the job.
Indeed, who would want that job?
In a fictional universe, GOP security would drag Pedo Matt down to the parking garage and administer a crippling beatdown while the caucus admits defeat and chooses McCarthy out of exhaustion.
The party is in so much disarray that one might speculate that one or more members of the so-called Freedom Caucus is a chaos agent being paid by Russia or China.
Might Scalise be playing the tactical game? Let the Caucus flail around a bit and come back to him? Might Santos vote for Jeffries…the rumor is at least one other Republican has agreed to do so f they can get four others…
ReplyDeleteMcCarthy has said he won’t take it back, but if they scrapped the rules that crippled him, he might be willing.
I wouldn't count McCarthy out just yet once the game of liars poker is over.
ReplyDeleteLiar's poker is an American bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight digits of the serial number on U.S. dollar bills. The digits are usually ranked with the 1 as "ace" as the highest value, followed by 0 as "10", down to 2 as the lowest. Each player holds one bill, unseen by the other players. The objective is to guess how often a particular digit appears among all the bills held by all the players. Each guess or bid must be higher in quantity, or equal in quantity but higher in value, than the previous bid. The round ends when all the other players challenge a bid.
The game is similar in structure to Liar's dice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_poker
There's another form based in five card draw where the hand passes around the table and you have to beat the last hand called unless you want to flip your opponent. Two losses and you buy a round of drinks for the table.
Mr. Jones, Some years I used to play liar's poker on Fridays after fellow workers and cashed our checks and were having lunch at the local saloon. One guy had a "ringer" bill that had eight "aces" but you still didn't know if that was the one he was playing. He accidentally spent it later.
ReplyDeleteIt hard to say if being a professional liar like those wanting the speakers chair is an advantage or not. Maybe that's why Trump's name came up.