I like to turn to the oracular Bob Dylan writing in William Blake’s prophetic mode for commentary on Matt Gaetz:
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden
There’s no avoiding the sound from the Gaetz of Eden. Otherwise, pretty good.
Yesterday Gaetz resigned from the House effective immediately, just ahead of the possible release of the House Ethics Committee report on its investigation Gaetz. Now the Ethics Committee has lost its jurisdiction over Gaetz. The substance of the report, if not the report itself, is nevertheless likely to see the light of day one way or another.
I should like to think that President Trump nominated Gaetz to be Attorney General to take him off Speaker Mike Johnson’s hands. I doubt that is the reason, though it will have to do for the time being. If Gaetz himself falls from a crashing but meaningless blow, we can always blame, you know, the GOPe! Uniparty! Sell-outs! Etc.
Perhaps Gaetz will prevail and Trump will have his man. Gaetz himself could use the cover of another surprise nomination yet to be made by President Trump — say Marjorie Taylor Green to Secretary of the Treasury. That too could benefit Speaker Johnson, assuming the Republicans can still muster a majority.
It’s at least as likely as John Fetterman’s reading of the Gaetz nomination as “God-tier level trolling…” President Trump does not like to lose. He means for Gaetz to secure confirmation or else. The trolling may be an incidental benefit, like taking Gaetz off Johnson’s hands, but it’s not the rationale.
Amazing 😂
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