Believe it or don't, I do think they're scared

Considering the Lefties are supposed to have the whip hand, they don't sound like it. Brandon found the fight over the Speakership "embarrassing" (insert punchline). So did the Demos. Not like the party discipline they have. There was actually a revolt, and Kevin McCarthy had to make concessions (we'll have to see how those last) to turn the tide.

How dast they? You'd think it was the dervishes taking Khartoum or the Zulus washing their spears at Isandlwana. Such things don't happen to the Uni-Party.

Yet here it are. and, even better, Commie News Net had one of their hacks put it in writing.

According to him, Anyone surprised by the dysfunction this week should not have been; the House GOP conference has been growing increasingly dysfunctional over the past 13 years. The chaotic machinations witnessed by the world this week are simply a continuation of the dysfunction that began after the Tea Party swept the House in 2010.

Former Speaker John Boehner and Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and later Speaker Paul Ryan, were all tormented by a rejectionist wing of their own party on simple matters of governance. Funding the government, preventing default on the full faith and credit of the United States, providing emergency relief to states and communities ravaged by natural disasters, and reauthorizing essential programs all became dramatic, high stakes fights.

So, it was the fault of those damned Tea Partiers being rejectionist and not doing as told by their gauleiters.

Der Fuhrer must be spinning.

It gets better.

Here's the deal that bought the Speakership: allowing a single member to call for a vote to oust the speaker is a nonstarter; same for placing more members of the Freedom Caucus on the House Rules Committee and a promise that a McCarthy-aligned super PAC would not intervene in open, safe seat GOP primaries.

Again, we'll see how all this turns out.

Here's the best part. CNN's man now starts with what he calls Rational Republicans and starts telling them what they need to do. They must stand, fight and resist, he says.

Is surrendering your way to victory really winning? And when will this appeasement ever end, considering it only makes this extremist faction more powerful? Sound familiar?

He goes on to say, if there aren’t enough GOP votes for a more reasonable rules package, then it’s time to try something novel – bipartisanship. In this case, rational Republicans should reach across the aisle and work with Democrats to secure enough votes for a rules package that rolls back some of the hardliners’ demands.

This is all just too cute. The Lefties now want the Whigs to start doing what they have done for more than a half century.

The point seems to be that the Uni-Party seems to have met its match. Maintaining the illusion of a 2 party system means keeping the Whigs viable, but that now seems a very tough row to hoe, unless, of course, the Left wants to get nasty. That will create a new set of martyrs, as it seems Ashli Babbitt is not going gently into that good night.

Nor should any of the others murdered that day. FWIW, here is how Rosanne Boyland, Benjamin Phillips, and Kevin Greeson all died.