Through the Looking Glass With the GOP

We have finally stepped through the looking glass, traipsed down the Yellow Brick Road, jumped the shark, and explored strange new worlds to go where no man has gone before.  We have traveled through another dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind, beyond even the imagination of Rod Serling.  Welcome to the Trump Zone.

Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
aka McCarthy & Gaetz

Where else could you find a Republican Party, which controls our House of Representatives with 221 members, to be able to blame the Democratic Party when they couldn’t find 218 of their own members to vote to save Kevin McCarthy?  Yes, Democrats are to blame for his ouster.  Yes, the same Kevin McCarthy who was so desperate to get the job of Speaker of the House that he sat on a powder keg, rolled out the fuse, and gave a single member of a right-wing caucus a lit match to use any time he stepped out of line.  It was Kevin who was most surprised by the loud bang that followed.  Only in the Trump Zone.

Where else but in the bizarro world of the Trump Zone would a Republican congressman like Troy Nehls nominate Donald Trump for the open job of Speaker of the House?  It took just a few nanoseconds for both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Greg Steube to follow with their support for the “quadruply-indicted” ex-president who has been found liable for sexual assault, defamation, and business fraud. 

Their own House Rules would prohibit this.  Rule # 26, states that "a member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years imprisonment may be imposed.”  This would not be a problem for Republicans living in the Trump Zone.  After all, if a law or rule gets in the way, just change it, ignore it, walk around it, or pretend it doesn’t matter.  The fact that this has never happened before would not be unusual here in the rarified atmosphere of the  Trump Zone.  A Speaker of the House had never been removed before in our nation’s history.  Things that have never happened only exist because Trump hasn't thought of them yet.

Yes, Donald Trump, who is regularly complaining that he has little time to be bothered by these pesky legal entanglements and trials because he is too busy campaigning to be president, has plenty of time to spare to serve as Speaker of the House.  Does he think that this job would somehow exempt him from criminal prosecution?  For someone who lives in the Trump Zone, everything is possible.

From Star Wars Episode V

I leave you with the opening from Star Wars Episode 5, 

"It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy."