Attribution to Alan Light

This is Katherine Helmond. She was best known (for me anyway) as Jessica Tate in the late 1970’s tv show ‘Soap’. It was ‘must see’ comedy tv back then. Most of my chirps are political in nature. But for the last few days, the Republican congress have made a mockery of politics, degenerating their actions into a soap opera. It would be comedic but for the fact that there is a potential government shutdown looming, as well as, a sham impeachment, where there is no evidence.

The tv show started each episode (or ended, I can’t actually remember) with all the carious antics going on, sometimes confusing to mesh together. So, I will try to put together, all that has occurred in the last little while. Please bear with me.

Last week, we had Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz telling each other to F#$k off. Then we had Lauren Boebert being groped in a theatre while she was doing some hand work herself. She blamed the incident on the fact that she is a bit eccentric and that her date, for the night, was a Democrat. She has sworn off dating Democrats. With me so far?

Now in the last 24 hours, Mike Lawler, a freshman GOP congressman, is calling the hardliners stance,

“This is stupidity”

Lawler wants to make a deal with the Democrats, to avoid a government shutdown.

Matt Gaetz, the one who told McCarthy to, well, already described, is in a pitched battle with fellow hardliners, who sided with McCarthy, earlier this year, to fund the government Byron Donalds, a fellow Florida congressman, shot back,

“Matt, tell the people the truth. … What’s your plan to get the votes to defund Jack Smith? You’ll need more than tweets and hot takes!!”

Chip Roy, another hardliner who sided with McCarthy earlier this year, chipped in against Gaetz, with the following,

“I don’t know whether we’ll have the votes or not, because I’ve got a lot of conservative friends who like to beat their chests and thump around going, ‘Oh, this isn’t pure enough.’ “

Then there is Victoria Sparks, from Indiana, who blasted McCarthy for being weak and saying that Kevin is more concerned about keeping his Speakership, rather than fighting for his country.

McCarthy responded by saying,

“One thing I learned in life: anybody who criticizes you has never worked harder than you. If Victoria is concerned about fighting stronger I wish she would run again and not quit. I mean, I’m not quitting. I’m going to continue work for the American public.”

Sparks has said she is not running for Congress, again. Let’s not forget Matt Gaetz who called McCarthy’s response to Sparks, as ‘disgraceful’ and that McCarthy was ‘attacking women’.

Marjorie chipped in by attacking funding for Ukraine, while David Joyce called Gaetz a ‘special person’ adding,

“I mean, in the how many years he’s been here, what has he ever accomplished other than running his mouth?” 

Steve Womack, from Arkansas, put it best,

 “It’s an unmitigated disaster right now on the majority side.”

What will happen in the next 24 hours, or the next few days? will Lauren and Marjorie become bosom buddies again? Will Matt and Mark makeup. How about Matt and the other hardliners? Is Victoria really intent on leaving this s#$tshow. Stay tuned for the next episode of.