I feel like it’s my birthday with both Bob Brady and Trey Gowdy announcing their retirement. Of course, if Gowdy becomes a judge, my happy times will be short-lived.
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With possible SC seats opening up- pretty good guess
A judgeship is a reasonable place to jump to, but not SCOTUS. If he had been promised that, it would be easy enough to stick around in his redder than red seat and wait for a Justice to kick the bucket. (Or retire, but under these circumstances which of them is about to?)
Plus, the guy’s such a plain lunatic, he might even have a little trouble getting 50 Senate votes.
He’s an attractive pick for a lower court though. Because there’s less scrutiny on them, so the froth pouring from his mouth corners won’t be particularly evident among the many similar nominees breezing through right now. And he meets the major qualification (other than insanity): he’s only 54 years old.
Still, he could have waited. I sense a possible appointment to the Justice Department’s new UPI office: Undesirable Politician Investigations. How could Trent pass up a sweetheart post like that?
With possible SC seats opening up- pretty good guess
You know that thing at State Fairs, where somebody who’s disliked — a teacher; the mayor — puts their head through a hole in a board and the attendees are invited to hand over tickets for the privilege of throwing pies or water balloons at him?
That was the sole purpose Trey Gowdy served. He and his gang organized one of those, except it was Hillary Clinton’s head through the hole in the board and they all got to throw their pies, generating the all-important video footage of themselves telling off That Bitch so that they can, later, put the footage into ads to show their hillbilly/redneck constituents to get reelected.
Funny that Gowdy soured on the game, though. I wonder why.
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More potential power and/or profit elsewhere, I imagine. Although a recent vid I saw regarding the FBI memo counterflap showed Gowdy standing next to the speaker…I forget which replaceable cog in the RatPub machine it was…swaying from side to side like a buoy in a slow wave condition. It looked almost like a disorder of some kind…a slow motion, whole body Parkinson’s. And his eyes were totally blank.
Terrifying, actually.
Possibly a new disease.
Post-Truth Syndrome
AG
I’m sure a lot of us already see the Republican Party as a bloated, listing tanker, chugging through the water, leaving oily waves of rotten pollution in its wake. You can imagine now that filthy, beady-eyed rats are leaping off that boat and trying to survive the toxicity they’ve created.
I’m happy to see them, to think that they’re actually afraid to stay on board a sinking ship that’s doomed to flail and drown them all. I hope they flounder in the private sector as well, but we all know they’re financially set for life. They’ll shrug off the stench of the party, but it will still cling to them.
My dream is to see the whole filthy ship go under, taking all of the rats down…McConnell, Ryan, Pence, Trump, all of them. Maybe a lot of the smaller rats will jump, and that’s good, too. It’s just a dream, I know, but it keeps me going.