THE DECLINE AND COMING FALL OF QUIVERIN’ QEVIN

How weak is Speaker-In-Name-Only Quiverin’Qevin?

So weak that he cannot get his alleged “Republican caucus” to vote for a CR loaded with far right messaging, that has no chance of passage or signing by the president once it leaves the House and arrives in the Senate.

Quiverin’ Qevin didn’t have the Republican votes to authorize the impeachment “investigation” he was thus forced to authorize on his own - an inquiry that does not have the power to issue enforceable subpeonas, ironically according to an opinion issued by the Trump DOJ.

He didin’t have the votes to pass the Defense Authorization Bill, with five Fweedumberer Kawkuss feral children voting against with all Democrats even with it full of their Fwee-Dumbass Kawkuss poison pills.

Assuming his “investigating committees” can come up with something they can claim is an “impeachable offense,” he doesn’t have the votes in the House Republicans to impeach President Biden.

He probably doesn’t have the votes to save his own job when Matt Gaetz brings that Motion to Vacate he’s now leaving around in the House restrooms.

If Qevin can’t even get a mostly-symbolic Continuing Resolution passed, there is no reason to hope that he will be able to avert the government shutdown looming at the end of next week.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries quipped last week, “What’s the issue? The other side can’t even find common ground with each other.” Democrats are “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground and solve problems for the American people.”

Last week ended with Quiverin’ Qevin daring the Fweedumberers to try to throw him out of office. When members returned home for the weekend, insiders were describing the four days as “a wasted week.”

Angry, frustrated and unable to lead a fractured, unruly, Republican majority in capable of governing due to the presence of 40 seditionists determined not to govern, who represent districts that support them regardless, McQarthy’s own lack of leadership skills and general incompetence are on display for all to see. The least-capable Speaker in the history of the House of Representatives can’t create the necessary majority to allow him to shit or get off the pot.

With a government shutdown looming, McCarthy is confronting the same stubborn problem that has driven Republicans before him from the speaker’s job — trying to lead a ruptured GOP majority that’s split between what’s left of the traditional party and a harder-right element largely allied with former President Donald Trump.

Even his decision to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden did little to appease the demands of the Fweedumberers and others as they threaten to shut down the government in pursuit of deep spending cuts or move to a motion to oust him from office.

This may be the toughest moment yet for McCarthy who is trying to survive his first year as House speaker and live to fight another day.

But now, after promises made and possibly dashed, he has barely any days left.

Punchbowl has an informed guess about the state of things and where they may go:

Yesterday, McCarthy gave in (surprise surprise): he pushed his moderates to follow him and is pursuing a plan that’ll be a DOA with the Senate and the White House. It could very well lead to a government shutdown on Oct. 1. In fact, that may be unavoidable at this point.

He’s going to try to pass a stopgap funding bill at the $1.47 trillion level in discretionary spending — the same as the Limit, Save, Grow Act from this spring — attach an immigration package that the Biden administration has already said it opposes and create a commission to study the debt, a well-worn Washington tactic that rarely bears fruit. There’s no new Ukraine aid nor disaster relief money in this package.

McCarthy is going to start moving FY2024 spending bills — beginning with Pentagon funding — at $1.52 trillion total. It’s a level that the Senate and White House won’t accept. It also makes some of his own moderates very queasy.

McCarthy and the House GOP leadership may not be able to pass a 30-day stopgap package at the $1.47 trillion spending level.

And then there is what Trump had to say: Republicans should reject the speaker’s plan. And they should “defund” Jack Smith’s investigation because the Orange Idjit is now terrified of what’s coming to smash him like the cockroach he is. “This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots.”

If the House does pass it, the Senate will gut this CR and send it back after adding Ukraine funding and disaster relief. The spending levels will be far higher, right at the Fiscal Responsibility Act level (which McCarthy negotiated). Then McCarthy has a tough decision to make. Does he allow the government to shut down or does he cut a deal with Democrats to extend funding? In the GOP leadership’s mind, it’ll free McCarthy up to work with Democrats. But that is perilous for McCarthy and could cost him his job.

Also, The Problem Solvers Caucus approved their own proposal as an alternative to the GOP leadership’s CR plan. This proposal would fund the government through Jan. 11. It calls for all 12 appropriations bills to be passed by then. It includes $24 billion in funding for Ukraine - similar the White House request - and $16 billion in disaster relief. There would be a new debt and deficit commission. It would also give new authority to the administration to respond to the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s been described as similar in impact to the expired Title 42 public health authority used to quickly deport undocumented migrants during the pandemic.

Qevin has just nine working days to pass the spending bills needed to fund the government or risk a politically devastating federal shutdown.

An interruption in government services would ripple across the country and is certain to hurt his party politically as Republicans are blamed for the disruption and disarray.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “House Republicans have made clear that they are determined to shut down the government and try to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of Americans.”

Jeffries said he had not talked to McCarthy this week about a solution, but he has spoken with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and they have agreed “the only way forward is a bipartisan path that funds the government at the current fiscal year levels.”

Qevin could avoid all this if he wanted to. If he had an ounce of courage and an actual backbone. The Fweedumbererasses pulled this same shit this past Spring when they sought to leverage a potential debt default to enact a far-right wish list. Then, Qevin ultimately defied them and made a compromise with President Biden that gained enough bipartisan support to make the boisterous opposition of the right-wing Confederate traitors irrelevant. There’s nothing stopping him from doing so again, other than that Motion to Vacate that Fraternity Freddie, er I mean Widdle Mattie Gaetz, left in a House restroom, which the feral children use to would actually make good on their threat to try to take his gavel away. McCarthy would rather let the most extreme members of his alleged “caucus” shut down the government - regardless of the substantial costs to the country and the political costs his party will be saddled with, having created this phony “crisis - rather than risk losing his speakership he was so craven to obtain that he turned it into a Speakership In Name Only.

Fraternity Freddie, er, I mean Gaetz, will likely bring his Motion to Vacate to show that he can, and to prove to the ‘gator bait voters in Florida that he’s a worthy successor to Governor DeSatan. There is a possibility that the majority of the Republican Caucus, which is reported to be “disgusted” with Gaetz & Co. might defeat the motion.

Since Qevin’s going to eventually fall anyway, if he had any integrity or guts and was more than an empty suit with a backbone made of a single strand of overcooked angel hair pasta, he could at least save his place in history by being voted out of office for at least doing something in the service of his country. But Qevin has never understood service as being more than “what I want.” So he’ll go down as the Least Speaker, leading the Least Worthy Republican House Caucus in history.

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