The new rule of order in the U.S.. House of Representatives:

When there is reason to anticipate a vote against White House interests, call an early recess and send everyone home for a month.

It may not be written in any rule book, but it is what House Speaker Mike Johnson did yesterday in order to forestall a vote on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, when it seemed that members of his own Republican party might cross party lines to vote for transparency in matters that could prove troublesome (or worse) to Donald Trump and/or other former friends of Epstein.

Now Trump has until September to work his “magic” (translation: “bullying”) on any members who might have dared do what they were elected to do, i.e., vote their consciences.

And all the others who suspect they may be on Epstein’s notorious list — if such a list does indeed exist — now have an extra month to try to cover their tracks, just in case.

But this tactic is neither new nor surprising; it’s the way our so-called democratic government operates now. And it’s our own fault; we elected these self-serving, weak-kneed, sycophantic morons.

As Karl Marx said:

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
7/23/25