Why is Nobody Asking the Obvious Question Here?

Posted: October 5, 2023 by datechguy in politics
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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. 

emphasis mine

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.

5 Speaker Overboard Thoughts Under the Fedora, The Stupid Party, Some Working with Dems is More Equal Than Others, The Biden Escape Hatch, Questions and the way to go

Posted: October 4, 2023 by datechguy in politics, under the fedora
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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.

Am I the only one noticing the Irony here?

To me the most frightening part of this is what Glenn Reynolds noted:

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:

  1. Who is an acceptable speaker to these eight?
  2. Do the eight have a candidate who would be acceptable to the rest of the party
  3. 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?
  4. How long are these people willing to keep the house without a speaker?
  5. 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?
  6. 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.

Philadelphia: A city on the brink of chaos

Posted: October 3, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

I spent nearly 16 years in Philadelphia. I enjoyed an occasional trip to watch the Phillies or the Eagles. The museums are excellent, notably the Barnes and the Constitution Center.

Although I’m not partial to cheese steaks, the restaurants are terrific. I particularly enjoyed a Brazilian restaurant in Center City.

I could put away my car and take rapid transit to most places I needed to go, although I’ve seen better systems in other cities like New York and Chicago.

The people of Philadelphia can be a bit hard-edged, chip-on-the-shoulder types, but I’ve seen that in many other cities where I lived.

So it angers and saddens me that the city that saw the creation of the nation and served as its capital for a while is being torn apart.

About five years ago, I realized that the city was in trouble. It happened on the Temple campus, where I taught. I stopped by the local Chinese takeout to find a group of young teenage women stealing soft drinks from the shelves. The women weren’t old enough to be college students and probably came from a nearby high school.

As 20 customers stood by, I grabbed one of the girls and asked the owner to call the campus police. He declined and told me to let her go.

As I stepped outside, five girls surrounded me and started to spit and harass me. No one stopped to help me, even though the harassment and taunting were obvious to the dozens of people passing by. No one wanted to get involved.

Fortunately, I hold two black belts in martial arts and easily frightened the girls with two quick demonstrations of my abilities without hurting anyone.

Before the girls fled, they threatened to bring their fathers back for a beatdown.

When I wrote about the incident on this website, I was ostracized by several fellow faculty members because I was a racist.

I also got a call from the campus police. I expected questions about the incident or an apology. Instead, I got a threat that I could be fired if I followed through on my suggestion that people on campus should be allowed to arm themselves.

When the looting came in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, it was apparent that it was time to leave Philadelphia, especially when the rioters got away with their actions and paid $9.25 million because the cops used tear gas!

The recent looting happened when a judge dismissed charges against a cop who killed a Black man wielding a knife.

Even though the interim police chief correctly described the looters as “criminals,” I doubt many will be held responsible for their actions.

It’s worth noting that Philadelphia, like many other cities I’ve lived in and won’t visit again, like New York, Chicago, Washington, and San Francisco, is run by Democrats. As Philadelphia elects a new mayor this year, I hope at least some of the voters realize that something has gone wrong in their city and won’t be fixed by the current crew that runs the place.

What the Democrat Left is by Kirk

Posted: October 2, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

If you want to understand what the Democrat left has become you can’t do better than this comment at the battleswarm blog on the decline of San Francisco. I reproduce it here in it’s entirety:

They all thought they knew better. They did not.

That’s going to be the epitaph for the United States, and the Democratic Party. Real fact is, they have to produce results people want, or they’re dead, dead, dead. The shakeout from the uniparty displaying its utter incompetence is going to take decades, but… So be it.

I used to work around a guy who was a Democratic Party precinct official. We’d argue politics at lunch with him… He was basically a die-hard Scoop Jackson Democrat, decent hard-working guy who believed in the Democrats the way a Jesuit believes in the Catholic Church.

He kept moving up the ranks, and eventually got sent off to some “leadership conference” back East, early in the first Clinton administration. I have no idea what he saw back there, or experienced, but he came back a changed man. You’d needle him the way we always had about the Democrats and their various corruptions, but after that “leadership conference”, he’d just sit there with an expression of what I can only describe as “rueful acknowledgment”. He gradually separated himself from his party activism, and by the time I last saw him about a year later, he wasn’t even involved any more. I asked him directly, about that time, and I couldn’t get an answer out of him about anything he’d seen or otherwise experienced that had “broken his faith”, but it was obvious that something had transpired. Only thing I could get out of him was something to the effect of “…they’re going to be hunting Democrats through the streets with dogs, one of these days… And, they’re going to be right to do it, too!!!

I have thought a lot about that guy and what he said. I still have no idea what the hell it was that changed his outlook that much, but I’ll say this: Before he left, he was all proud of the fact that he was on the same floor with all the bigwigs attending the conference, the national leaders from the Democratic Party. Something he saw around them? Something he heard? No idea; he’d never say what it was.

And take note the first Clinton Administration was 30 years ago and the left has only gotten worse since then.

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