God Almighty, you are sighing, what will these assholes think of next?
Or perhaps G-d Almighty or, my personal favorite, Gd Almighty. Because at Hebrew school they taught us it was bad form to write out the Lord s name, and, although I ve grown into an adult who believes that an all-powerful deity wouldn t get worked up about spelling, old habits die hard.
But not hard enough! The GOP is currently engaged in a news cycle of performative outrage because Rep. Eric Swalwell misgendered God.
YES, REALLY. We could have called God herself and the Republicans weren t going to convict, the California congressman told MSNBC s Nicolle Wallace, so we re proud of the case we put forward.
hillary clinton. i think i shocked some of you, huh? oh, indeed, you shocked some out of us. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. our politics lead, yes, congressman mccarthy, we can confirmed has shocked all of us. the front runner to replace john boehner as speaker of the house quitting this afternoon. it was supposed to be all but assured but just got undone in front of our very eyes. today after insisting he would have the 218 votes on the floor of the u.s. house to become the top republican in the country, second in line for the presidency, congressman mccarthy pulled the rug out from under everyone. and he told the republican conference behind closed doors that he wasn t their guy. republicans need a new face, he said, to lead them into the future. let s get right to cnn s chief congressional correspondent on capitol hill, dana bash. dana, what happened? reporter: well, at the end of the day, jake, it seems that the same undercurrent of conservative outrage that helped p
open but in washington, d.c. look left, look right. in terms of the dire consequences, what happens? they will do it again, won t they? that is certainly something that s being talked about. as the possibility of doing this again. and a lot of this is reflective with what we ve seen in the house of representatives. there s a lot of conservative outrage when members got back to washington, d.c. they said that the republican leadership in both chambers has not done enough to try to stop the iran deal. yesterday you had the cruz and donald trump had a very boisterous rally here on capitol hill, screaming and yelling saying stop this deal. ted cruz calling out john boehner, speaker of the house, trying to put pressure on them to do more. here s the thing though. there s not much more that they can do. once september 17 rolls around, that will have been two months since the deal was formally submitted to congress. from that moment on the united states and their allies, assuming that this