Kevin McCarthy — who may or may not become Speaker of the House (and no one gives a shit if he does or does not) — says as soon as he becomes Speaker, the GOP-controlled House will pass “big bills”.
Bullshit.
Please. There will be no “big bills.” The only thing Republicans know how to do legislatively is cut taxes massively for the very wealthy. They are a one-trick pony, and that trick was done in 2017.
No one believes this Republican majority is going to pass anything except symbolic, mean-spirited gestures of right-wing grievance to placate their Fox News-addled base. Their entire agenda can be boiled down to three words: “own the libs.” That’s not a recipe for legislating, it’s a recipe for posturing, posing and preening for the Fox News cameras, the only network these people will ever appear on because they are terrified of being asked serious questions, and they know Fox will always serve them pathetic softballs.
This is a house majority that the majority of Americans are going to sour on very quickly, and that will happen regardless of who Republicans finally decide to name as Speaker. Because:
- Outside of the Fox News bubble no one gives a damn about Hunter Biden. The thing is, Trump and his wretched family have made this country safe for a hundred Hunter Bidens. There is nothing that Hunter Biden could have done in the feverish fantasies of the entire Republican party that could possibly compare with the most criminally corrupt, incompetent and malevolent administration in U.S. history.
- Same goes for Afghanistan: nobody cares anymore, we’re out, and it’s over (finally). Whether it’s fair or not, that’s just how Americans think about Afghanistan, a country that Fox News and the GOP forgot completely about for decades until Biden finally had the sense to leave.
- Likewise, immigration is an issue that riles up the Republican base, even though it impacts virtually none of them personally. Coming from a party that just thwarted a comprehensive immigration bill it’s simply more hypocritical race-baiting from the party that perennially trots out the scary “caravan” in carefully timed stories from — you guessed it — Fox News.
- And as for energy “independence,” well guys, we would have had that decades ago if it wasn’t for the people who pay for your campaigns.
So, no, “history” is not going to be changed over the next two years, whether Kevin McCarthy is elected Speaker or not. Either way, it’ll just be an ugly, vindictive slog through the Fox News playbook, as meaningless and torpid as the “Benghazi” fiasco which no one really cared about either.
Meanwhile, Democrats will attempt to work with — or around –the same people who tried to overturn our democracy, the same ones who enlisted the country’s worst specimens to pursue that failed effort.