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Washington Post scribe Dana Milbank is panicked about the “chaos on Capitol Hill.”

He hyperventilated, in a recent column, concerning the difficulty Republicans are having in choosing a new Speaker of the House, after the announced resignation of current Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), then the sudden withdrawal from the race by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), and now the reluctance of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to seek the post.

We’re informed of the speaker’s importance — “second in line to the presidency” and “key to national security and domestic tranquility” — as if Milbank, alone, has access to a Constitution.

Yet, is it really “chaos” or continued gridlock that’s bothering our company-town columnist?

If it were, Milbank wouldn’t focus his attacks solely on conservative Republicans for their unwillingness to “compromise” (read: surrender). Both Democrats and so-called establishment Republicans seem equally adamantine.

According to Milbank, these conservative “hardliners” and “zealots” constitute “a rough crowd” who employ “thuggish tactics.” Why, they have “hijacked the chamber”!

How so?

They had the audacity to not always vote lockstep with Speaker Boehner; they balked at supporting the Speakership for Rep. McCarthy; and (heavens!), they even dared communicate their viewpoint to voters in McCarthy’s home district.

Could free political speech still be allowed by law?

Milbank reviles the “efforts by conservative groups to depose [McCarthy] before he ever took the throne.”

Depose? Throne?

Milbank even laments that Eric Cantor “would have been speaker today” had only voters in his district not voted for somebody else. Pesky voters!

Methinks Mr. Milbank has been lounging around the halls of power a tad too long.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.


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4 replies on “Capitol Hill Chaos”

 …. our company-town columnist? …. 

Or, rather, their company-town columnist. 

Their  company-town/trade-paper columnist. 

Their  their company-town/trade-paper/informational “columnist.”  

Their  their company-town/trade-paper/informational Goebbelsist. 

Brian Richard Allen

Appreciate your being in the company town, Pablo. And watching out for us poor rube sharecroppers. You remind us that the wheels turn in the same direction at all levels of coercive government… toward more entitlement for those turning the wheels. ‘Throne’ ‘Deposed’? Exactly.

…. Methinks Mr. Milbank has been lounging around the halls of power a tad too long …. 

Or the locked wards of the asylum. 

Who – by the measure of the product – could differentiate?

Ryan Zinke, Representative from Montana, should be Speaker of the House. He wants the job! Nobody else seems to want it.

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