A very very very fine House

 The Senate gets to confirm judges and cabinet members and all that, but anyone can see the House is where the action is these days.  We may re-name it the Fun House.  Or the House of Horrors.

Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) you already know about, the committee-free scamp who has little to do but put on dazzling displays of bigotry and ignorance.  (Her theory about space lasers causing wildfires is perfectly innocent because she had no idea the Rothschilds were Jewish.)   But after that and the Guam business and the anti-LGBTQ stuff and her general uselessness, Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) introduced a resolution to throw her out, now with more than seventy co-sponsors.  Pretty impressive for a freshman.

Mad Marge's latest effort at representing her district was to join eleven other chuckleheads to oppose the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Capitol Police who saved their worthless asses during the January 6 coup attempt.  They didn't like the language in the resolution, which referred to the insurrectionists as "insurrectionists" and described the Capitol, somewhat floridly, as "the temple of our American Democracy."  But mostly it was the implied criticism of those law enforcement-loving white patriots so dear to Trump and Ron Johnson.

After the murders in Atlanta but before the assault on a 76-year-old woman in San Francisco's Chinatown (she kicked his ass), the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss the sickening wave of violence against Asian-Americans since Trump starting ranting about "Kung Flu."  Chip Roy (R-TX) apparently didn't get a copy of the agenda, because he decided it was the right place to complain about how the people of south Texas are being "absolutely decimated" by events at the Mexican border, and how people whose property was destroyed during last summer's demonstrations need justice (without mentioning the victims of Kyle Rittenhouse), and something about the Chinese Communist Party.  (The CCP hasn't had this much attention from Republicans since Nixon went to Beijing in 1972.)  Then it got weird:  "There's an old saying in Texas about 'find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree.'...Round up the bad guys.  That's what we believe."  First of all, it's a Toby Keith lyric, not the wisdom of Sam Houston.  Second, you really want to bring back lynching?  If the Republicans got control of the House this armadillo turd would be the committee chairman.  Now think about that.

Without any help from these specimens but with bipartisan support the House passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would allow a million agricultural workers to obtain green cards and live here legally and permanently.  Who could object to that in a big ag state like California?  Darrell "Arson" Issa, of course.  Because the children of said farmworkers might not agree to remain in a permanent state of peonage, picking our strawberries and lettuce, and choose instead to become teachers and lawyers and members of Congress.  Issa's always looking out for the real Americans.  Just be sure to lock your car.  

With feral cats like these to herd, it's almost possible to feel a twinge of sympathy for Kevin McCarthy --  unless you know about his bad-faith effort to get Eric Swalwell removed from the Intelligence Committee.  He doesn't give a damn about this country and its security, he just wants to distract from Devin Nunes's involvement with the Russians (and maybe retaliate for Greene's punishment).  And I haven't even mentioned Paul Gosar's assumption of Steve King's role as leader of the white nationalists.  You remember Gosar --- even his family thinks he shouldn't be in Congress.  

They're not wrong.