GOP In Disarray: Tubby And The Squish

As the gentle reader already knows, Republicans are incapable of functionally governing. One does not need to look further than the House GOP and especially the Free Dumb Caucus, who have taken to trying to strong arm Speaker Jeebus Johnson to do as they will.

In one recent encounter, Johnson was surrounded by Matt "The Forehead" Gaetz, Lauren "Happy Hands" Boebert and others, to coerce him from allowing bills to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to come up for a vote.

Then comes along Wisconsin's Drunk Uncle, Derrick Van Orden, who decided to interject himself by getting into a playground name-calling session with Gaetz:

Van Orden approached the group on the floor Thursday and dared them to file the motion to oust the speaker, later telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was attempting to “call their bluff.”

“They’ve been trying to blackmail the Republican conference now for a long time. Just do it. Show the American people who you really are,” Van Orden said in a brief interview about the interaction.

“The American people can’t really see what takes place all the time. What they can see is a motion to vacate — trying to get rid of the speaker,” he said. “And it’ll show their true colors because they are not here to legislate. They are not serious legislators.”

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