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Is Jake Sherman Ryan's top official spokesman or is he just some Bill Kristol wannabee?

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I kind of feel sorry for Ryan the human being. These jackoffs are going to shred him in public and spit out the pieces.

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So, the guy they swore was the best choice ever for the Vice Presidency three years ago is now barely qualified to drive the activity bus for the paste eaters. That is some great progress, GOP!

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Yeah, I feel bad for him too. Bwa ha ha ha ha!

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Really. This shit has got to come apart one of these days. Trump might be the catalyst.

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Too much of this shit takes place behind closed doors. How about an Option 5? Ryan stands up in open session and says "These are the forty people fucking up America. Let them rise now and tell us why."

A fantasy, of course, and not a very interesting one (no hookers or koala bears). But what would it take to get these teabaggers to explain their actions to the non-truck driving, non-cousin fucking population of our country?

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I hope the dems can overcome the gerrymandered to hell seat and retake the house. But I'm not holding my breath.

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It couldn't happen to a nicer person. Because no person nicer than that evil turd could possibly get a majority of the Republican House caucus to vote for him.

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I'm going to go on and repeat myself, if that's alright.

I'm reminded of the church militant from Warhammer 40K lore. Fresh acolytes make their names and raise their ranks by hunting heretics, but as time goes on they must resort to increasingly questionable and extreme methods. Before they know it, they themselves have been branded as heretics and are hunted down by the new batch of acolytes.

I wonder if that's what it's like to be in the modern GOP, just minus the space demons and power armor.

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Hey, they are *not* "uber-extremist conservatives", because there's nothing "conservative" about them. They're neoConfederate traitors, who literally want to break the Union, and make the US a confederacy.

Really. Go look up the Constitution of the Confederacy, and if you leave out the explicit lines about slavery (wage slavery is *so* much more cost-effective, and has far less bad PR), everything in it is what their platform is.

mark "try 'em for treason!"

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My heart aches for him.

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Wait . . . no . . . that's acid reflux from the Thai curry I had for lunch. Nevermind.

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Maybe a little more like that woman whose fancy 6-figure earning husband drinks and cheats on her, the house has toxic black mold, and the kids keep getting expelled, and you're like, "normally, I'd feel sorry for you, but GODDAMNED you are and always have been such a bitch."

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lol

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Sounds like a song by The Decemberists.

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I'm guessing he'll declare himself a Libertarian, since there's no way on earth that the Democrats would take him in.

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Charlie coined that long ago and its become so universally accepted over there that commenters just usually write ZEGS & everybody knows who they're talking about. In view of his upcoming elevation to be DA SPEAKER I offer it up to the woneratti, free!

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