56 thoughts on “Recapping Yesterday”

  2. small is as small does

    The Hill

    Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) ordered Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to vacate her Capitol hideaway office so he could take it over, just hours after becoming acting Speaker, Pelosi’s office said Tuesday.
    […]
    McHenry’s office requested that Pelosi vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday because it was being re-allocated “for speaker office use,” the message, first reported by Politico, reads. A small number of senior Representatives have “hideaway offices” inside the Capitol Building.
    Pelosi denounced the demand in a statement late Tuesday.
    “With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol,” she said. 
    “This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition,” she continued. “As Speaker, I gave former Speaker Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”
    She called on McHenry and House Republicans to focus instead on legislation.
    “Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them. Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people,” she said.
    Pelosi is in California in preparation for the memorial services of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) later this week. She did not vote on the motion to vacate Tuesday.
    “Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time,” she added.

  3. The Search for Intelligent Life

    Attribution: The search for intelligent life by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

  5. House Dem Spots 1 Very Awkward Problem In GOP Plan To Make Trump Next Speaker (msn.com)

    Some far-right Republican members of the House say they want Donald Trump to become the next speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster on Tuesday threw the body into chaos.
    […] 
    There is no rule saying the speaker must be a member of the House, although every speaker so far has been. 
    But there’s a big problem with the GOP plan to make Trump the first non-member to wield the gavel: Their own rules. 
    Sean Casten (D-Il.) gave his Republican colleagues a reminder of Rule 26, which was adopted in January and states that any GOP leader indicted of a felony with a potential prison sentence of 2 years or more needs to step aside: 
    [continues]

  6. What a day that was. The party formerly known as republican as left town, literally after kicking their version of a speaker out the door.  No new volunteers were going around with hand out asking for votes.  And, the big fat dumb uber leader was told to delete a post on his scribble site, along with never, ever again attack the judge’s staff.  I am not completely sure that anyone has ever told sfb to shut up and he complied, but it may be.
     
    Will a week away from each other make a difference to the playground bullies?  I doubt it, they have a lot of hate for America and any of their kind who make nice to other people.  Will outsiders, puttie comes to mind, offer them more rubles to do more destruction? Will the leader of the swing set be jailed.  Time will tell.

  9. HEADS UP, mixers

    An emergency alert will hit phones today. Here’s what to expect – The Washington Post

    On Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. Eastern, most Americans will simultaneously feel their cellphones vibrate, hear them make a loud sound and see a push alert pop up on their screens. Most radio and television stations will broadcast an alert at the same time for about one minute.
    There is no national emergency, no reason to panic and nothing you need to do about the alerts. It is, as the text will say, just a test.
    It’s a test of the national emergency alert systems, which are designed to let the government reach hundreds of millions of people in the United States immediately if there is a disaster affecting the entire country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission are conducting the coordinated test to see if the technology is working as designed and if any improvements are needed.
    The sound is a unique tone that probably will interrupt classes and meetings, reveal the locations of hidden phones, and jar anyone not expecting it. The test itself is already leading to baseless conspiracy theories about how the powerful communication tool could be abused.
    [continues]

  10. Parody of Blueberry Hill, made famous by Fats Domino. Lyrics and music production by The Freedom Toast and Video concept and editing by Cinebot Video. Executive Producers for Parody Project Don Caron and Jerry Pender

  11. Chump will not be house speaker. Easy prediction.   

    How bout the way little baby McHenry petulenttly slammed his little gavel down. These people are children.

  13. Why the alert test now?  Is something afoot?  Only a one-day notice?  Yeah, something is always afoot.  If I have my phone in airplane mode, does that prevent the alert?   They are going to traumatize folks.  

    The end of the writers’ strike and return of late night shows is bad news for Orange Adolf and he knows it. Lovely job of trolling him by Team Colbert. Late night is newsier than news. Last evening, one of David Muir’s teasers on ABC’s national newscast was “Is this the cutest flower girl, ever?” I gave no idea, because I turned off the TV.

  18. Yeah… they did this alert a few years ago. At the time, I was on vacation in Maine.  Rick and I were at an art museum overlooking Perkins Cove in Ogunquit.  Poppy Bush frequently drove his boat into that cove to one of his favorite restaurants.  I thought the alert was to tell us that he was coming. 
    Rick and I had a huge laugh over that…

  19. Funny story, Renee. Nowadays they fly the Texas flag over Walker’s Point to let you know George and Laura are in residence. 

  25. Fortunately, I got the warning from tweet now X and was surrounded by my crumpled balls of tin foil so I don’t have any desire to dine on brains.

     

  26. Airplane mode.  I did see a green banner on digital TV stations.   Hmmm, if these tests are infrequent so as not to become part of the woodwork, and if they are announced a day in advance,  it would be good timing for someone to do something bad.  

    Have Republicans started speaking German, yet?

  27. Omg Patrick McHenry.  Apparently has reformed his public image but now we see his inside is still the same.   
    the speaker candidates would make Roman Hruska so proud

  29. He swammed his gavel down.   
    doobie doo down down
    Swammed his gavel down
    doobie-doo down down
    He Swammed his gavel down
    doobie-doo down down
    Growing up is hard to-oo-oo do!

    Some more suspicious souls might wonder if that petty Little Boy McHenry is making Pelosi s and Hoyer’s offices somewhat more accessible to the general public……some would say a little more in hatm’s way……perhaps he’s even hoping that evil might rear its ugly rear. .That would show them.

  30. CNN’s always well-sourced Jamie Gangel says McCarthy himself, not McHenry, responsible for tossing Nancy and Steny out of their hideaway offices. She said Kevin is moving into Nancy’s office, quotes source: “Kevin is on a revenge tour, Patrick would never have done this on his own. This was Kevin’s call”.

  31. But Kevin didn’t slam down that gavel—that was all McHenry.  

    McCarthy said that Pelosi told him she had his back I’d like to know more about that

  32. Time to zero-in on the districts that keep electing these A-holes to Congress. If there’s only 8 or so of them, what’s the holdup? 

  34. Gangel says Pelosi’s impassioned speech to Dems in private meeting just before the vote had “great impact”. She put up pic of McCarthy smiling with Trump at Mar-A-Lago, said “You cannot bail out a man who stood by the man responsible for the attack on our Capitol, who tried to overthrow the election”

  35. “You cannot bail out a man who stood by the man responsible for the attack on our Capitol, who tried to overthrow the election”

    …and hid and cried under a desk on Jan6 while phoning trump to beg him to call off his dogs which is an acknowledgment that McCarthy understood trump led the insurrectionists

  37. I can see McCarthy thinkin’ to himself….I’m REALLY gonna be an asshole now!   lol
    Like he could ever be any worse than he actually already was.  

    Maybe Pelosi suckered him.

    Just saw a clip of the Pumpkin talking about the trial—very stale, but watch those tiny hands like he’s manically playing the accordion. He can’t stop.

  38. Good that Nicolle Wallace/MSNBC featured General Kelly’s belated revelations. Very moving interview with Gold Star father Khizr Khan. Trump is a domestic enemy. We need the protection of our military from him, not for him.

    While not a gold star like General Kelly and Mr. Khan, we know their pain as the parents of one of Trump’s innumerable sacrificial lambs.

  42. I wonder whether the rules for the Speaker pro tem includes assignment of office space, or in this instance, eviction from office space, for members of the opposing party.  McHenry better hope that he can’t or if he can that Dems do not take back the House next year – he could end up in the COB parking lot looking for a Wifi signal to complain about being evicted so his office could be converted to a storage room.

  44. McHenry is the new Speaker Pro Tem, slammed the gavel out of frustration for his moron colleagues, is not a trump sycophant from my cursory research

    (according to Mr. C, it was McHenry that received assurance from Pelosi)

    EDIT- above account misattributed to Mr.C by me, sorry 🫤 )

  45. I saw McCarthy say that Nancy came to him and said that.    
    This calls for research.   I hate research.  Bad enough to have to search the first time, much less having to RE-search

    Went and watched the questions after Mc’s farewell and he said that Nancy came to him on her way out from being speaker and told him she’d back him up but then on the ouster vote the democrats made a “political decision.”
    So his back was up for grabs.

  47. Pogo – I have been thinking that myself.  Not just the height challenged one but many of the others with American issues. J6, July 4th, cut the budget, IRS, CBP and a lot more.  Perhaps one hundred or so of those freaks should get a tent on the other side of the Anacostia river.

  49. on the issue about nancy’s hideaway ofc in cap, one reporter explained that it was traditionally assigned to the “previous speaker” upon new speakers ascending and the eviction was merely allowing the current “previous speaker” to assume residency.  The mchenry/mccarthy summary notice, even if standard op procedure, was ianappropriate/disrespectful/bad manners to say the least considering where and what nancy was doing at the moment. they could have waited until after the san fran ceremonies and funeral.  

  50. crackers – Roman Hruska!  The Watergate-was-a-witch-hunt guy.  Ha!  I’d forgotten about him.
     

    Pelosi is always playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.  Did she sucker Kev?  Yeah, but it could’ve been more.  Maybe this a political stink-bomb to sew more division in the smoldering remains of the Republican Party, to see if anything viable and remotely pro-democracy crawls out of the ashes.

  51. Drew Barrymore’s writers:
    “They’re not baaaack.”

    See, if the chump really wanted out of all this legal miasma he’d shave his head and go into court acting like he’s waking from a bad dream.

  52. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/house-republican-anger-speaker-fight/index.html

    Intentional or not, Dems voting to oust Kev was a stink-bomb.

    “There was a meeting last night, as you may know, of Republicans and that room would have devolved into I think physical attacks on one another if people stayed in there for a long period of time,” said Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, a McCarthy ally. “People are mad … It is justified for them to be frustrated by what happened yesterday.”

    “Rep. Kelly Armstrong, a North Dakota Republican and close McCarthy ally, said there are a “lot of raw nerves” and that the next speaker candidates must make clear that they will “never” allow a single GOP member to oust a sitting speaker again.”

    “The next speaker better figure out how to negotiate with the exotics before you become speaker because you’re sure as hell gonna have to do it after you’re speaker,” Armstrong said.

    The “exotics.”’Ha!

  53. After the little child tantrums in the court room, after a gag order was in place, I am thinking his attorneys and maybe someone else (who?) convinced the idiot to haul his fat ass somewhere away from NYC.  Perhaps during one of those little tete-tete the judge had with the defense it was given to the idiot to keep it under control or find out how comfy places with bars are.

  55. Cassidy Hutchinson was promoting her book in Kimmel. Matt Gaetz seems to have taken a drunken interest in her at Camp David.  Kevin McCarthy seems to have inadvertently interceded.   Orange Adolf is both afraid of being poisoned and of eating in front of other people (because the calories don’t count if nobody sees you eat them?).  

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