Two years of flim-flammery

Yes, you read that right. Marge of the Three-Toes is now saying "golly gee, I just got sucked into internet rabbit holes. I'm a much better, more serious person now."

Let's just call this for what it is: flim-flammery. It's a swindle, a con, a low-down dirty trick. Marge hasn't "grown". She's still the same assclown we've known for years. Although, maybe now she'll bathe more regularly.

But the flim-flammery extends way beyond her. It encompasses the entire GOP "governing" philosophy. From yesterday:

🚨It’s official – we just defunded the 87,000 new IRS agents.

The IRS should be focused on customer service, not on targeting hard working Americans.

— Ashley Hinson (@RepAshleyHinson) January 10, 2023

New: Rep. Buddy Carter confirms to me that his Fair Tax Act will get its first-ever floor vote as part of speaker talks. Bill abolishes IRS, eliminates tax code, replacing income taxes with consumption tax - rolling back pieces of GOP tax law

It was a demand of the 20 holdouts

— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) January 10, 2023

Now, come, let's discuss serious matters.

These measures are dead in the water. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer won't even deign to give them floor time. They are the equivalent of your three-year-old doing a doodle on paper and you pinning it up on the fridge with a magnet. 

These are the kinds of measures which will be coming out of the House this year. They are unserious, and in no way deal with the agenda on which the GOP ran.

However, there's a big but. And it's this:

That's right. It's even-stevens between the MAGA cultists and the GOP voters who actually want to get things done. And the GOP representatives who were elected by the latter cohort will soon tire of this far right LARPing. Their constituents will be asking: Where are the roads? Where are the schools? You want to do what to Social Security? No, why should I care about Hunter Biden's penis?

I know it's fashionable among too many to declare that we are doomed, we'll default on the debt, we'll be thrown into a Mad Max world. But that's not how anything works. Not even by a longshot. 

Steve McCarthy [sic] sold his soul and gave the Taliban Twenty what they wanted so that he could get his hands on the precious gavel. But, as others much smarter than I have said, no one respects him. No one fears him. None of the so-called "moderate" Republicans will crash the world economy. The GOP majority is razor slim. And Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is no fool. We'll soon see if he has the political nous of his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi. I think he does. He's had a long apprenticeship under her, and is now ready to take on the fight. Democrats are in array, while the GOP is not.

So, yes, get ready for two years of flim-flammery. But we also might be able to score major victories. And those victories will come at the expense of Republican unity. Get your popcorn.