4 October—At the risk of generalizing yet again—scrupulous and appropriate though generalization clearly is in this circumstance—politicians are such scumbags. This time, the scumbaggery is epitomized by Matt Gaetz, a particularly reprehensible and unquestionably self-serving, publicity-seeking Republican congressman from somewhere in Florida, who, along with his hard-right fellow pricks, after screwing Ukraine, among others—because they could—on Saturday, went on to screw House Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday for essentially doing the right thing for once in his sorry life.

Certainly, McCarthy is no prize. But when he made a deal with House Democrats to pass a stop-gap proposal to fund the federal government for 45 days in order to avert a shutdown (no matter what we may think of that) and save the Republican-majority House’s ass in the bargain, Gaetz reconfirmed what a scumbag he is.

The fact that 126 Republicans joined 209 Democrats to do the right thing for the nation, for a change, for an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 335 to 91 must really have galled the Florida congressional penis. In fact, Gaetz made it clear that collaborating with Democrats was, is, and ever will be unacceptable. At least to him. McCarthy was a collaborator, as in war-time traitor, subjecting him to Capitol punishment. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

But even most of the far-right Republican usual suspects didn’t vote to vacate the speakership under House Rule IX; only eight Republicans you’ve never heard of voted against McCarthy. But along with the 208 voting Democrats, that made for a close 216 to 210 vote to can Kevin. And he had the good sense to promise he won’t be coming back. As Speaker of the House, at any rate. Not that he’d be missed by anybody. At least McCarthy can take comfort in that he was the first Speaker in history to be vacated.

Rest assured, however, the Democrat assholes are no better than the Republican pricks. And it’s entirely appropriate to switch (or join) anatomical epithets. Wouldn’t you think, for instance, the Dems owed McCarthy at least a little appreciation and support for what he had done, crossing the aisles and compromising to save the country, and all that? Well, think again.

Because the scumbag House Minority Leader, the Flake State’s Hakeem Jeffries (hoping to become Speaker next term), announced that the Democrat leadership would support the Republican motion to vacate, thus giving McCarthy the sack. What a magnanimous show of bipartisanship! Jeffries claimed that Republicans had “unleashed chaos, dysfunction and extremism on hardworking American taxpayers.” But, of course, the goody two-shoes “House Democrats remain willing to find common ground on an enlightened path forward.” Yeah, right—they certainly made a good start.

“We are following our [Democrat] leader, and we are not saving Kevin McCarthy,” Washington dyed-in-the-wool scumbag Rep. Pramila Jayapal, bigoted chair of the sanctimonious Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.

And Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, who had been removed by Speaker McCarthy from the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year after making well-publicized antisemitic remarks, was eager to vote to oust him.

New York Congressbrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alluding accurately to McCarthy’s exceptionally weak leadership, asserted, “It’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans from themselves,” adding that Democrats wouldn’t support him “for nothing.” [sic]

We can’t ignore typically self-serving, treacherous Flake State Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, who had started jockeying to get the late Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat back when he first got elected to the House at the turn of the century. Although he can’t pass up a media moment, Adam was surprisingly succinct: “I know I’m gonna vote against him.”

In other words, politics as usual. And let’s see what happens in 45 days . . .