House of Tards

Matt Gaetz and his seven fellow travelers fully embrace the Culture of Losing

This week, Florida Peacock Matt Gaetz decided to lift his leg and crap all over the House Republican conference by making a pact with the radical Democrats to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

Rarely has one man caused so much damage to his party in so little time.

It took Barack Obama two years to monkey-wrench the Democrat majority in the House. Matt Gaetz accomplished nearly as much damage to the Republican majority in just two days.

The Federalist senior editor David Harsanyi observed in his column, “Matt Gaetz Didn’t Oust McCarthy. He Just Helped Democrats Do It:”

Matt Gaetz’s self-aggrandizing political stunt makes no sense and changes nothing — other than perhaps his fundraising totals. And other than some platitudinous blathering about “the establishment” and “the uniparty,” I still haven’t seen anyone offer a coherent reason — not even retroactively— for how any of this is the “best way to advance the conservative agenda.”

That’s because Gaetz’s goal had nothing to do with the conservative agenda and everything to do with elevating Matt Gaetz.

Gaetz wanted to punish Kevin McCarthy for working with the Democrats to pass the continuing resolution. So what did he do? He worked with the Democrats to pass a motion ousting McCarthy from the speakership.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that make Matt a RINO and a member of the so-called “UniParty?”

If you make common cause with Marxist Squaddies like Ilhan Omar, you’re not a “conservative firebrand” or “America First.”

How in Lucifer’s reach is it a win for conservatives to hand the Democrats exactly what they wanted?

As I said in my column on Tuesday:

[W]hen Gaetz does summon the energy to fight, he attacks Republicans while leaving the Democrats unscathed, or worse, in a far better position.

It doesn’t take a genius to notice that the Democrats voted unanimously for Gaetz’s petty Motion to Vacate the Chair. Trust me, if Democrats thought ousting McCarthy would hurt them, they would have rallied behind him and left Gaetz twisting in the wind.

Governor Ron DeSantis describes this as the Republican Party’s Culture of Losing.

I suggested on Tuesday that Gaetz wasn’t trying to move the ball down the field.

It was a vanity project, nothing more.

Gaetz expects McCarthy to act as if Republicans hold a 40-seat majority instead of the measly 6-seat majority they have. With a Democrat Senate and a Democrat President, any legislation the slim majority passes to keep the base happy will die on the vine.

Gaetz might be a showboating clown, but even he must realize that the only way to move the ball down the field is for Republicans to win elections. But as long as Matt clings to Trump like a limpet, winning elections will be very low on his list of priorities.

What matters to pillocks like Matt Gaetz is chaos, posturing, attention, and unquestioning loyalty to the King of Chaos, Donald Trump, none of which helps us rack up wins.

Republicans are well-positioned to retake the Senate in 2024 since several Senate Democrats up for reelection are from Republican states like West Virginia, Ohio, and Montana.

On top of that, in poll after poll, voters list the economy as their number one issue in the election, and a recent Gallup poll shows voters prefer Republicans over Democrats by 14 points on the economy.

On paper, Republicans are poised to increase their majority in the House and retake the Senate.

But is that truly the case, particularly when a useless douchebag like Matt Gaetz is monkey-wrenching the party -- all so he can settle personal scores and launch a fundraising campaign from the House floor.

It certainly won’t help matters if Republicans tie their fate to a presidential candidate despised by more than half the country.

Tuesday, conservative writer Justin Hart shared these disheartening stats on X:

Since Trump, the GOP has gone from:
34 to 26 governorships
68 to 57 state legislative chambers
241 to 222 House seats
52 to 49 Senate seats
1 President to no President

As long as we keep allowing Donald Trump and his cult of personality in Congress to hold the GOP hostage, Republicans will keep losing.

Isn’t it time to reject the Culture of Losing and make winning elections a priority again?