Matt Gaetz the child rapist?

I had a far-right colleague who argued with me that he didn’t want to elect someone who would compromise. I gave him the analogy that we were co-owners of a house. It really needed a paint job because the decay was starting to cause structural issues. He wants it painted red. I want it painted blue. If we don’t compromise, the house is going to become worthless relatively quickly.

Pretty funny how Gaetz cites a ‘rule’ created by a child molester.

Wow I forgot how stupid the “Hastert Rule” is. Republicans really do love making up rules that suit them, and selectively applying them…

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Gaetz’s arguments against an agreement that would avoid a shutdown of the federal government, Tapper suggested, was “the language of somebody who is looking for clicks and likes and Fox [News] hits, not somebody who actually is trying to reduce the debt.”

“I haven’t been hitting there as much recently.” For the record, September was his second-most prominent month on the network this year, following only January, when he led the charge against voting in McCarthy as speaker.

The magic of social media means that tailoring and speaking to an audience of hundreds of thousands can be as effective as a few segments on shows watched by millions.

And that’s the other way of looking at Gaetz’s rebelliousness: From the comfortable position of the guy who doesn’t have to get things done, he can more effectively embrace the hard-line politics many Republicans endorse.

In February, Monmouth University asked Americans to identify the bigger contributor to problems in politics, too little compromise or too little principled action by elected officials.

But his opposition to McCarthy also captures a fundamental challenge for any Republican leader: the base doesn’t want to compromise but political realities demand it.

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