Can the Rats Run the House?

A new rat pack has come to prominence to the chagrin of fans of '60s entertainment. The group of five entertainers was jokingly dubbed the rat pack by Lauren Bacall because of where they met. 

I give the new rat pack their title because they like to chew things up and leave behind a bunch of crap wherever they go, which in this case is in the House of Representatives.

Most GOP House members want to tear things apart for profit. There are several, though, that seem to want to destroy America just for fun. Even calls from Trump could not persuade six Tea Party RINOs to consider sticking together with the ideology of obstruction and insulation that Kevin McCarthy would offer to people who may need pardons like him and them. Those six got McCarthy elected by voting "present" so that their votes would not be counted as cast, making the 216 votes McCarthy had sufficient to be a majority of the votes cast. 

Most People Who Claim to be Republicans are RINOs

The first time I heard the term RINO used as an acronym for "republican in name only" was when my younger sister bandied it describing people like John McCain and Bob Dole. I have heard it used more recently by other people to describe people like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney. 

If I were to point out to my sister that those names include three former Republican presidential nominees and the daughter of a former Republican vice president, she would likely make her indignant "pfffft" noise. She would follow that with a dismissive "yeah, sure," or some similar response to let me know that Beck and Carlson hadn't given her the correct response to that particular challenge. She, like so many other people who claim to be Republican these days, are truly Tea Party RINOs.