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. 

McCarthy's Pathway to Speaker Includes Uniting the Drama Queens

In an attempt to appear virile, Kevin McCarthy put a figurative potato in his pants, took Marjorie Taylor Greene's arm, and told GOP senators that he would see to it that the legislation by any senator who votes for the omnibus spending bill would be "dead on arrival" to the House. He mentioned the minority leader by title. 

The problem for McCarthy, though, is that he does not have the 218 votes needed for him to be the next Speaker of the House. He needs to court the vote of Marjorie Taylor Greene by promising her committee assignments she lost for saying Obama, Pelosi, and other prominent Democrats should be executed. 

However, Greene's spat with Lauren Boebert over who is the real sophomoric drama queen, is causing McCarthy trouble with Tea Party RINOs who are concerned that McCarthy is really a Republican in drag. He assures them that he is not, and he has the voting record to prove it, but now Boebert has joined team Matt Gaetz in opposing McCarthy for the position. McCarthy cannot afford for the hypocritical idiot vote to be split like that. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Coup would have Succeeded if She Were in on the Planning

Not really. It was all a joke, she explains. 

This is her joke: "Then January 6th happens, and the next thing you know, I organized the whole thing with Steve Bannon here. And I gotta tell you something: if Steve Bannon and I had organized it, we would have won, not to mention that it would have been armed. Yeah, see, that's the whole joke, isn't it?"

She didn't say it was a good joke.