The Southern Border has finally gotten so much in control that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ordered immediate fencing as an immediate need, and waived 26 federal regulations in order to fast track the construction.

The United States piled up $275 billion dollars more in debt on Monday. It’s risen $448 billion in the last two weeks. It’s projected to climb a trillion dollars this month. And with the 10-year Treasury yield about to hit 5%, the cost to finance that debt is going to become all-consuming before you know it.

House Oversight released more Hunter Biden documents that show political figure 1 as, not surprisingly, The Big Guy, Joe Biden. If the President’s off his meds, he’s a zombie. If he’s on his meds, he’s corrupt.

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We’ve got real, real problems, and they’re mounting rapidly. Fortunately, we have a gang of self-sabotaging morons riding to the rescue this week in order to make sure that there’s no focus on the serious issues, and no counter to the broken off spigot of leftist floodwater drowning the country.

Matt Gaetz and the rest of the Knucklehead Caucus carried out the Cleavon Little scene in Blazing Saddles when he became sheriff of Rock Ridge by voting with every Democrat to depose Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Now keep in mind, there isn’t a lick of principle involved in the decision. Their purported reason for needing to vacate the chair was because Speaker McCarthy allegedly made a deal with the Democrats to push through a continuing resolution in order to avoid a government shutdown, when in fact that violated his promise to conduct regular order by passing appropriations bills.

The rest of the story, of course, is that these same Knucklehead Caucus members torpedoed the very appropriations bills that went through regular order. They were marked up in conference committees, passed out of committees, and were torpedoed on the floor for no other reason than to create the shutdown showdown. Once they got to the shutdown showdown and McCarthy refused to play that game and negotiated an alternative, they removed him.

In a week, thanks to these super geniuses, they have galvanized the overarching takeaways American have of the two major political parties.

One of the two political parties is hellbent on destroying the country. That may sound like rhetorical hyperbole, but what else can you call it when you are being overrun at one of your two major land borders by millions of people, of which you have no ability to process or assimilate? Or you reward rampant crime by ending cash bail, propose and pass laws forbidding retail owners or employees from fighting back against crime happening to you? Or you refuse to fund law enforcement to combat the rising crime wave? Or you infect the minds of youth with graphically-illustrated pornography in schools and use the power of the Justice Department in order to investigate and harass parents that try to stop it? The Democratic Party are attempting to destroy the country as we know it for the sake of progress.

The other party, the Republican Party, has a countering vision. Their vision is that they do not want to be in a position of leadership or influence to offer a competing vision. No, we’d rather scuttle any chance of slowing or defeating any of the bad stuff for the duration of the Biden administration. And the House GOP certainly are not showing they are serious about adding to their numbers in Congress for the purposes of leading after the 2024 election.

The House is currently on a break until Tuesday so that members who want to try to pick up the pieces and file for Speaker can come up with a campaign and work on their fellow members. Allegedly, there will be a vote, or series of votes, for Speaker on Wednesday. It will take 218 to pick the new Speaker. Here’s why it’s unlikely one will be elected anytime soon.

A Republican Speaker can’t lose more than 4 votes. That’s means only half of the Knucklehead Caucus have to hang together to keep this chaos going in perpetuity. No Speaker candidate in their right mind will agree to the gig unless the conference scraps this insane motion to vacate rule. Matt Gaetz and the Knuckleheads will refuse to give that control up. So we’re at an impasse of which there seems no solution.

After weeks, or maybe months of this circus, a handful of moderate Republicans, like perhaps the four freshmen New Yorkers including Mike Lawler, Republicans that eked out narrow wins in 2022 in Democratic-leaning districts and would like to continue, will in all likelihood form a de facto coalition government with the Democrats. They’ll negotiate with Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic leadership in order to come up with somebody that both sides can stomach as a Speaker, but of course with a price. Perhaps the committees will have to have more Democratic membership, or even co-chair power. It will almost certainly be a future speakership for the rest of this Congress that has a less conservative mission and performance than what took place for the last 10 months. And honestly, I can’t blame them a bit for having to go down that road. This can’t go on.

This is what Matt Gaetz and the Knucklehead 8 have wrought, and they don’t seem to care. Nihilists seldom do care about how their actions affect others. I’ve never in my adult life called for working against any Republican. I esteemed Liz Cheney quite a lot, although regretted deeply the fact that Donald Trump seemed to break her. I was sorry to see a bright political future completely disintegrate, but recognized the need for it to happen, and finally became resigned to the need for her to go. What happened this week is different.

In this case, there’s no defense, no excuse, and there’s no other option. No mercy. They have to go. They are not conservatives. They are not Republicans. If they stand for any election, whether it be in the House, or future Senate or governor runs, they must be defeated. Treachery, especially stupid treachery, cannot be rewarded. It must be punished, or else we are no longer a party that stands for anything.

As a Republican, when you have a week in which George Santos doesn’t even make the top five on a list of craziest Republican Congressman, you know we’re in a lot of trouble. And honestly, Santos currently may have fallen outside the top 10.

In baseball, there was famously the Mendoza line, named for shortstop Mario Mendoza, who had a career batting average of .200. In any group of people of a couple hundred or more, you’re going to have some crazies in it. That’s just a given. The House GOP has their Santos line. It’s best not to be below it. Every member who knifed Speaker McCarthy this week has fallen below the Santos line, and there should be no pathway offered for their return. Ever.