If you vote for a face-eating leopard, expect it to eat your face.
: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”by a user named Adrian Bott in 2015 and is now deployed whenever the chickens — er, leopards — come home to roost.with the tactics of the nihilists they helped empower. But the speaker wars have demonstrated like nothing else why no one should ever support the LEPF caucus, even as a matter of temporary political expediency.
Guiding every action was the knowledge that Gaetz, or anyone else in the leopard faction, could mount a leadership challenge at any time. Unfortunately, members of that faction were less interested in governing than they were in going on television and providing their voters with a textbook demonstration of oppositional defiant disorder. So McCarthy couldn’t count on their votes when it came time to perform core legislative functions, such as keeping the government running.
But these are the wrong questions. Of course, Republicans chose Johnson. They own that. They also own the long years in which they have cravenly capitulated to Trump and his face-eating friends, allowing the leopards to devour their party from within. This was bad for Republicans and bad for America, especially after the leopards used this perch to mount an attack on the legitimacy of our elections, the very core of our democracy.
But the fact that Republicans made horrible choices does not absolve Democrats from any obligation to make good ones. Democrats are not amoebas, capable only of instinctive reactions to environmental stimuli; like Republicans, they understand cause and effect and ought to act on that understanding.And the truth is, it was a majority of Democrats, not a majority of Republicans, who provided the necessary votes to chuck out a relatively moderate speaker.
I hope this goes better for the country than I expect it will. But if it doesn’t, then I have only one wan hope remaining: that no one who voted with the leopards, either Democrat or Republican, will further embarrass themselves by complaining about just how much it hurts when a leopard starts eating your face.
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