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19 thoughts on “Jim Jordan loses yet again.”

  3. cld

    Just saw on tv that Jungle Jim has achieved fewer votes as the majority party's nominee for Speaker than anyone since 1923.

    The least popular maniac ghoul since 1923!

    So in keeping with the season. He even looks like he was born wearing a Halloween mask. You don't just get a face like that. It's like a gift.

  6. Salamander

    I go with "Plan D for Democrat." Not that it's even possible sooner than 2025, unfortunately. On the other hand, Jordan's shrinking support says at least a few good things about his fellow wingnuts. There still are things that are beneath them!

  7. Excitable Boy

    “Surely it's time for Plan D?”

    I think you meant Plan 9, because this screams “Ed Wood Production” like nothing I have ever seen.

    1. DButch

      Ok, I had to tell my wife about your Plan 9 comment. That got her morning off to a! good start!

      I once read a short biography of Ed Wood, and still remember the line:

      He dreamed of creating great movies. Unfortunately, he was Ed Wood.

      1. Excitable Boy

        Thank you. I appreciate you sharing your wife’s pleasure and the book quote as well.

        Ok, he was not anything close to even a competent director, but his movies were not crass and appealing to base instincts. He clumsily tried to push for world peace and acceptance of people in the 1950s that were treated as freaks and misfits. It was really cruel for the Medved brothers to call him the worst director of all time in their Golden Turkey book. There were plenty of directors that were more skilled in the craft, but pushed racism, misygony, and violence that were much worse in terms of coarsening the film audience.

      2. cld

        What makes Ed Wood seem worse than he is is his unique ear for phony dialogue.

        He gets a lot of plot into scenes that don't seem to be doing much, but they sound like something overheard from another room while you have brain damage.

  8. KenSchulz

    While it’s good to know that Jordan almost certainly has no chance of becoming Speaker, it’s discouraging to see so many votes for someone who so obviously lacks the skills and characteristics needed for the job. Nearly half of the House of Representatives either doesn’t understand the Speaker’s job, or doesn’t care if it gets done or not.

    2. Altoid

      For most of this crew,the speaker votes are like their votes on bills (and particularly in this session)-- pure messaging within the siloed GOP/Fox/Bannon cinematic universe. Any intersection with real-world concerns like how to run the House is accidental. It's the dead end they reach when a politics that's been mostly symbolic becomes completely symbolic.

  9. Altoid

    It's even better than this! Jordan lost a vote that was supposed to affirm the caucus's support for him-- a secret ballot that he lost dismally.

    Maybe there's the explanation for the weird tweet from the Gang of Eight? "You can beat us up, stomp all over us, but whatever you do, don't you step on our buddy Gym"? Throwing their bodies into the breach in a heroic effort to save the Orange One's chosen boy . . .

  10. KenSchulz

    I’m coming to think that we actually have three parties, within a two-party system. The third party, the Neo-Confederates, have been around since the Civil War; but as coalition partners for such long stretches of time that they usually aren’t recognized as a distinct faction. They spent about a century as Dixiecrats; following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they moved to the Republican Party. From wanting total control of Black bodies, they have moved on to ‘mere’ disenfranchisement, but added to their goals control of the bodies of women and LGBTQ+ people. They have expanded into large parts of the Midwest and Mountain West, appealing to people who feel threatened by changes in demographics, and increasing acceptance of human diversity. The Republican Party can’t even think of losing any of its voter subgroups, so it has come under the control of extremists, in Congress as in primary elections.

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