I'm assuming the sun will be setting by the time those who cannot govern get around to choosing or maybe not choosing the next victim of their ungoverning and ungovernable ways, the 119th Congress' speaker of the Madhouse.
The job, as you know, is currently sorta held by God's own vicar, Mike Johnson, and his bicuspids. Why he would want the title again is anyone's guess, seeing that it comes complete with the tyrant Dionysius' hoplite sword held at the handle by a solitary horsehair, suspended over the speaker's chair.
Vicar M.J. has the blessing of Trump — he's a "good, hard working, religious man," said the infidel — but Mr. Elect's benediction has become rather rickety of late. His pinwheel-eyed hypnotic hold on all Republican House members has faded.
That's bad. Even with his attenuated partisan powers, Trump is still more influential than God Himself when it comes to Bedlam's R inmates — but it will take only two of them (Axios says three) to defy Trump and the vicar's reascension (unless his opponents simply vote "present").
Mike is in there fighting, though, the little scrapper. (Referring back to the above, he appears to have the same confidence in God saving him as Mike Huckabee did when he bombed out of the 2008 GOP presidential race after assuring his audiences that the Good Lord would see to his election.) Mike is battling the Washington way — with bribery: "process reforms."
And a proposed rules change: "A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker shall not be privileged except if it is offered by [nine members] of the majority party." One R said that with the change they'd be "in a better position ... to make sure" that both the speaker and the party's disastrous agenda could "go forward."
But there's no rules switch yet, and one Republican, Thomas Massie, has already voiced his intention to go rogue. There's also Chip Roy, who told Fox Business' 12 viewers this week, "I remain undecided." He added that others were unsure as well.
Yet Chip seems a trifle confused, though not about Mike's support. He further told Fox that "he was concerned Johnson’s leadership could 'limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president’s agenda.'" Chip my boy, your president's agenda is based on massive deficit spending, which you are dead-set against. Mike's fine with it.
As for the speaker's vote, however it turns out, it's likely to be chaotic — par for this party's course. What once was an easy and swift ceremonial gathering the contemporary GOP has converted into another of its slapstick obscenities. Because its members are not only incapable of governing, they're ungovernable children to boot.
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