In the meantime, McCarthy’s home state is facing a storm that promises to disrupt air traffic. Now there’s an outcome that has almost no chance of happening, and yet one is hard pressed to figure out what other options are available. The former is 73 years old, while the latter is in his early 50s. It’s possible, therefore, that John Boehner or Paul Ryan could serve as Speaker of the House as a compromise candidate. Furthermore, it doesn’t say anything about where the Speaker of the House must have been born in order to serve, although the line of succession to the Presidency would be affected by the Speaker’s place of birth. In point of fact, the Constitution of the United States does not say that the Speaker of the House has to be a member of the House of Representatives or ever have served in any political office whatsoever. Jokes aside, it is staggering to see a political party that supported an insurrection against America’s democracy now find itself incapable of agreeing on who should be speaker of the house. Just in case you’re wondering what the obstructionists in the GOP want, here are some of the highlights: dismantling the IRS and jettisoning the income tex in favor of a consumer tax (gee, guess who that would benefit the most?) and a federal balanced budget (guess how much the Pentagon’s budget would be reduced under that scheme?). A nurse to the side with a Donkey emblem on her uniform says, “Break out the plaster for the traction cast.” The leg is obviously wrenched and splayed. The elephant has a hind leg up in a halter which is hanging from a wench chain attached to the inner edge of a Capitol-like dome. If I knew someone who could draw like Conrad, I would hire them on the spot for a cartoon in which an elephant is in double-wide bed in a hospital emergency room. These three made it worthwhile to subscribe to the paper. Times had a very savvy group of writers at work: Robert Kirsch reviewed the books Jim Murray wisecracked about sports events with metaphorical ingenuity and Joseph Conrad was a master of political cartoons. It’s well nigh time it surfaced.)ĭecades ago, the L.A. This item was generated by Tim Reynolds and shared with me by him many years ago. (The poet Tim Reynolds “superimposed” himself on a photograph of a certain Wall Street character.
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