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. 

Walker in GA and Oz in PA: How are These Races Close?

Herschel Walker did much better than most people expected in his debate against Senator Raphael Warnock. He was expected to flop miserably. Aside from flashing an unauthorized prop badge that has been turned into a meme, he was able to tie Warnock to the Democratic party which means he votes with other Democrats, namely Biden and Pelosi. That is a common theme among Republican candidates during these midterm elections. He wouldn't vote with the Democrats, of course. He would vote with the Republicans, which would align him with his intellectual equals, Boebert and Greene.

Walker claims to support family values. His son, though, claims he was an abusive philanderer who he and his mom hid from for a while for their safety. Walker claims to be pro-life. Two exes, however, have provided evidence that he paid for their abortions along with an allegation that he drove one of them to a clinic twice because she changed her mind the first time. Still, by getting through the debate with only one meme-worthy moment, it was a huge victory for someone who made a lot of touchdowns when he played college football for the Bulldogs and seems to have scored a lot because of that. 

As for the abuse and philandering, well, we all know that kids say the darndest things.