Who should be the next Speaker? A stone-cold, vicious iceman.

I could go into great and tedious detail over what the country needs out of its next Speaker, but let’s be honest. What we need is somebody who will literally kick separation-of-powers back onto its former track. That means picking somebody who will, for example, call up the White House and tell the President Get your dogs back on their leashes or the Executive budget gets cut down to your Secret Service detail, heating the White House, and groceries for your kids*.  Which is, by the way, the traditional way of keeping recalcitrant Emperors under control: don’t pay for their staff.

Yeah, I hate the precedent, too.  I also hate having no choice but to advocate it.  So go blame the President for that, too.

Moe Lane

*“Go ahead and scream about me in the media, Mr. President. Just expect to have to do it out-of-pocket.”

6 thoughts on “Who should be the next Speaker? A stone-cold, vicious iceman.”

  2. I’ve seen advanced as possible Speakers: David Koch (just to aggrevate Harry Reid), or Newt Gingrich. Both have their merits, and I think it’d be a good change of pace to have a Speaker that’s not a Representative.

  3. What if the GOP negotiated more like Putin or the Iranians? Obama has no problem rolling over for them. Granted, it may be a case of O not caring as much about the outcome but it’s worth trying.

  4. Stone-cold ice .. yeah, definitely.
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    Also need someone who can apply that *to his or her own caucus* ..
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    Frankly, that’s the failure point for Chairman Newt .. he didn’t check** Boehner and Santorum hard enough, and eventually the mendacious quislings slipped the knife into Newt’s back.
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    Not saying this to glorify Newt, mind, but to point out that keeping the mendacious quislings of our own party in check needs to be seen as closer to the top of the priority stack, eh?
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    Mew
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    ** Hockey, not chess

  5. Um, so Ice Man cuts budget, Obama vetoes, Democrats sustain it, government shuts down (seems to be some people’s universal solution to everything).

    Only 17% shuts down. NOT Obamacare, PP, or Executive office budget, though. You shut down parks and monuments and Social Security offices while giving employees free vacation.

    There is no end game here. It’s as well thought out as the Underwear Gnomes’ business plan.

    1. Adjoran, please read my posts before you comment on them. I specifically was talking about appropriations for the Executive branch budget. Among other things.

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