I noticed this story at Instapundit when I got home from work:
In an update to this story, we’re learning that it wasn’t McHenry but McCarthy himself who was behind the call to get Pelosi kicked out of her hideaway office, something few on the House side have outside of high-ranking members. Further, the person who will be utilizing that office will be … McCarthy:
Apparently it is protocol that the previous speaker gets the office and now that McCarthy is a former speaker, the office becomes his. But that’s not the thing that raises an obvious question, this is:
Notably, in his farewell remarks late last night, McCarthy said that Nancy Pelosi had assured him that he could return to the rule allowing any member to seek to vacate the chair because she and the Democrats would stand with the Speaker. If so, that was a statement consistent with the long values of the House.
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Now correct me if I’m wrong but I was led to understand that Nancy Pelosi was just another member of the Democrat caucus these days and the Democrats minority leader was Congressman Hakeem Jeffries.
That being the case why is anyone negotiating with Pelosi and or why is Pelosi making deals for the Democrats? Is Jeffries minority leader in name only was Pelosi usurping his position or did Jeffries use her as a catspaw to deke McCarthy if he was foolish enough to presume Democrats were honorable?
I think these are all good questions that deserve answers.
I have no non-work net access at work nor do I own a cell phone so I was planning to write something about the Pope tonight when I instead got word of what went on in the house.
Seriously? With a six vote majority you vote out a speaker who on the whole has exceeded expectations for conservatives despite holding the thinnest of thin majorities?
The GOP is called the stupid party for a reason
One of the objections to Speaker McCarthy was that he made a deal with the Democrats for a continuing resolution to keep government open. A resolution Democrats were so afraid of passing that one of the pulled a fire alarm to keep it from happening.
So because they were so upset at McCarthy for working with Democrats to keep the government funded, those who opposed him worked with the entire Democrat caucus to remove him.
Heck, if I’m the Democrats, I vote somebody tolerable as President Pro Tem of the Senate, then have Biden and Kamala both step down. With the Speakership of the House vacant, they could pick a succesor president that easily. If I’m Chuck Schumer, I’m scheming for that right now . . .
As of this moment there is no GOP member in the line of succession. This is the perfect chance for the left to rid themselves of both Biden and Harris. That Gaetz & company didn’t think of this is criminal.
I hate to say it but given the violence we’ve seen from the left if I was Joe Biden or Kamala Harris I’d be scared for my life till a new speaker is in place.
The logical questions that comes from all of this are these:
Who is an acceptable speaker to these eight?
Do the eight have a candidate who would be acceptable to the rest of the party
Would the eight support any candidate that didn’t give them the power to boot him and would any republican in his right mind take the job knowing that these people will boot him if he doesn’t obey?
How long are these people willing to keep the house without a speaker?
Are there any parliamentary tricks that the Democrats can use to get the speakership if the GOP doesn’t have their full membership present to keep them from winning such a vote and if so who on the GOP side are watching for that?
Did they think of any of this stuff before taking this vote
This is pretty much a dog catching a car and not knowing what to do with it, or as Sam Rayburn used to say: “Any old jackass can knock down a barn door, it takes a carpenter to build one.”
Now I’m just a small blogger who has been here for almost 15 years and I’d like a conservative speaker to advance conservative values so let me give a piece of advice to members of the GOP who would like that, particularly the entertaining eight.
If you want to get a strong conservative as speaker elect enough republicans to get a solid majority so that you can put through a conservative speaker
If you don’t elect republicans you don’t get a conservative speaker and if you are not able or willing to go out and find republicans who can win in districts currently held by Democrats and support them to the max then all the bluster about Speaker McCarthy is just BS.
It was six months ago today–April Fool’s Day no less–when Dylan Mulvaney, to cap off his 365 Days of Girlhood series, did his first of two social media posts hawking Bud Light. Previously, in the words of Alissa Heinerscheid, who was in charge of marketing the brew, it was a “fratty” beer. The effect on Bud Light sales was immediate–a consistent and sustained 30-percent sales drop.
Immediately, the “experts” in the business world and the media, who are in fact narrative-driven morons with crisp, broadcast-friendly speaking voices, immediately ran to defend InBev, the parent company of Anheuser-Bush, with a consistent refrain, as if they were reading the same script, declaring “Boycotts don’t work.”
While that’s generally correct, the sales drop for Bud Light, a brew that tastes the same as Coor Light and Miller Lite, was in fact a walkaway. “Joe Sixpack,” the typical Bud Light drinker who believes that men are men and women are women–despite mutilation surgeries and hormone injections–found a way to scream “F*ck you” to the elites who say otherwise.
Bill Maher said on his HBO show that the average American is furious because “they’ve had an agenda shoved down their throat.” When one of his guests, US Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) objected to Maher’s truth, he struck back, “You have to accept everything they say or you’re a bigot.”
So true.
The plummet in Bud Light sales is a major victory for conservatives, as well as the majority of Americans who have known the difference between males and females since they were two years old.
And gender, despite the claims of now former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, is not “a spectrum.”
Mulvaney, whose ditzy faux female social media posts are about as pleasant as loud audio feedback, as well as the rest of the Anheueser-Busch marketing staff, did what was deemed impossible: killing a cash cow. I had a couple of marketing classes in college. Cash cows were revered by my professors, they are product lines that sell well with minimal advertising support. Heinz Ketchup, Ivory Soap, and Kellog’s Corn Flakes come to mind. The bountiful profits from cash cows are “milked” to support struggling brands. It’s a marketing circle of life.
One of those professors, in a lecture decried the use of celebrity endorsements in advertising, calling it “lazy marketing,” He also warned that celebrities, particularly those from the entertainment world, are known to do things morally objectionable, or get involved with unpopular political causes.
Now Anheuser-Busch is now spending a lot of money on its Bud Light “Easy to Sunday” campaign tied to the NFL as well as producing, again, commemorative cans, but this time with the logos of popular NCAA football programs, instead of a one-off Mulvaney can that was not sold to the public.
Too little too late.
As sales continue to lag for Bud Light, it’s likely that scarce shelf space in supermarkets and liquor stores will soon be allocated to better selling brews. Modelo Especial this summer surpassed Bud Light as America’s bestselling beer.
The Bud Light cash cow has gone dry.
As I predicted here at Da Tech Guy months ago, using transgendered people to hawk mainstream products, while not completely dead, is now close to it.
We have witnessed six months that shook the marketing world.
The good news for the Democrat/Left is that they have solved one potential problem:
2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.
Kennedy’s campaign machine is now planning “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee in order to “pave the way” for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed by Mediaite.
“Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” a Kennedy campaign insider told Mediaite.
The Democrat/Left decided that they could not risk a competitive primary where Democrat voters would have a choice not named Joe Biden, particularly when that choice is not owned by the deep state.
But now while Democrats don’t have THAT problem what they DO have to worry about is how this will change things in a general election.
Frankly a Kennedy nomination worried me because if nominated by the Democrats he would, in my opinion trounce Trump and give a DeSantis a run for his money because of his anti-establishment positions while still holding solidly liberal positions
Democrat voters who lost jobs because of the Fauci vaccine business in the last three years weren’t likely to be voting for Trump who helped give Fauci the national credibility that allowed him these things, but they ARE likely to cast a vote for Kennedy in a general election.
What happens if they do so in great numbers in Wisconsin?, Michigan? Arizona? Minnesota? New Hampshire? Maine? Virginia? Georgia?
The left might sow the whirlwind by these actions but there is one other side to this story that is mentioned at PJ media:
If RFK Jr. goes through with his plans, and he’s not suicided Epstein-style in the process, this will very probably be the death knell for Brandon’s re-election prospects, which were on thin ice as it was.
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If there really any person out there who doesn’t believe the deep state democrat left wouldn’t kill Kennedy in a minute if it put them at risk? (Remember there has already been one incident).
I submit and suggest that anyone who doesn’t admit this is deluding themselves.
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