(gets out popcorn)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Chaos in Speaker selection leaves observers wondering if the living will envy the dead:

“It is total confusion — a banana republic,” said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a Boehner ally, as he recounted seeing a handful of House Republicans weeping Thursday over the downfall of McCarthy and the broader discord. “Any plan, anything you anticipate, who knows what’ll happen. People are crying. They don’t have any idea how this will unfold at all.”

Comments

[onyxlynx]

<pitying tone> Ces enfants pauvres.<tone>

(I never did learn to do sarcasm in foreign languages.)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Sow the whirlwind, etc. etc.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

"People are crying."

I should feel bad that my first reaction to this is "ha ha ha," but I really don't at all.

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Banana Republics are better run than this...

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I'd laugh, but a potential consequence (for the third and perhaps most likely time) is a default on the US national debt, thanks to our bizarre practice of requiring a separate House vote to make the payments on debt we already spent, and speaking of it publicly in a manner that makes it sound analogous to raising a credit limit.

It's quite possible that the only reason the global economy did not collapse in 2011 or 2013 was that John Boehner was not Tea Party enough to let it happen. Now he's gone.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

If the US had a parliamentary system (like every sane democracy) we'd have had a new coalition in power by now, with the teapartiers out of it.