Plenty Of Fish

 

The saga of Liz Cheney, the Congresswoman from Wyoming, was a major news story this week if you don't count:

 1) A cyberattack on an oil company that caused long lines at the gas pumps with a sudden jump in prices.  It also caused a jump in the number of memes shared on Facebook showing people hoarding gas, including a new way by putting it in clear plastic bags.

2) The CDC finally granting us poor peasants the privilege of walking around naked-faced if we've had our vaccines.

3) Chick-fil-A limiting the number of dipping sauces they will hand out per meal. I reacted to this news like your grandparents responded to Pearl Harbor.

The saga was an inside baseball Washington story about another mean old Cheney and how she didn't do her job as the number three person in the Republican House leadership.   I'm not sure exactly what that job entails except keeping her lips firmly pressed up against former President Donald J. Trump's tuckus.

It all has to do with Dumb Donald and how he reacted to the attack on The Capital.  

The former President’s reaction to January 6th has been, “What?  Something happened on January 6th?”  He has dismissed it as no big deal as if every losing side has tried to disrupt the official certification of The Electoral College.

I thought after Trump left The White House, he would slowly and surely fade away.  Wrong.

Trump has been squirreled away in Mar-a-Logo, appearing at the occasional wedding reception and reminding the happy couple of how the election was stolen from him because there’s nothing a wedding reception needs more than a lecture about the Dominion voting machines.

Speaker of squirrels, the House of Representatives led by the primary nut, Nancy Pelosi, decided to impeach Trump one week before he left office. 

Liz Cheney was one of the Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump.

All across the land, my fellow Republicans jumped to their feet to applaud one of their own, voting her convictions and standing up for the rule of law.   

Um, this did not happen. Instead, old Liz became number one of the Hit Parade and not in a good way.

President Reagan created “The Eleventh Commandment,” which said, “Thou shalt not criticize another Republican.”  As we all know, President Trump took that commandment and stomped that sucker flat. It all began in 2015, even before the 2016 campaign, Trump pooh-poohed John McCain’s stint in a North Vietnam prison camp during The Vietnam War.  Trump spent The Vietnam War traipsing around New York with his four foot deferments, trying to avoid catching the clap. (His words, not mine.)

You can say what you want about McCain. But you can’t sneeze at his service as a Prisoner of War.

The new Eleventh Commandment appears to be “Thou Shalt Not Criticize President Trump” because your life will be miserable if you do.

It is still early, but there appear to be many people who think this 74-year-old man is the party's future.  He’s not.

 
At least, I hope he’s not.

The GOP has a pretty deep bench, and there’s a lot of good candidates for 2024 out there.

Ron Desantis, the governor of Florida, is almost like Trump except he is smart, articulate, and actually wins arguments with the smarty-pants press when they get stuck in their "Republican Are Evil" mode.
 
Speaking of smart, Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas, was a student of Elizabeth Warren’s at Harvard.  He's not Dan Quayle trying to diagram a sentence.

Senator Tim Scott proved the other day that he deserves to be on the national stage.

There are others, but you get the point.  The House GOP Members are still goo-goo-eyed/scared poop-less over Trump.  They are like some boy who is still pining after a girl after she dumped him at the drive-in. Give it up. Trump is old news. He caused the GOP to lose the House, Senate, and The White House. 

There's plenty of fish in the sea. Leaders of a political party are like a bus, and there will be a new one to come along. Get over Trump and move on.

Besides, I haven’t heard one word from Mar-a-Largo about the Chick-fil-A dipping sauce crisis. Whoever can solve that has my vote.