[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
The GOP establishment’s full-court press to draft a reluctant Paul Ryan into running for Speaker of the House after two of the most genuinely shocking congressional developments since Bob Livingston – Boehner’s resignation two weeks ago, followed by the McCarthy debacle yesterday – has done more than just throw the House of Rerepresentatives into chaos while triggering record sales of #popcorn on the Left. It has also created one of my favorite Lord of the Rings quote meme scenarios in recent years, rivaling NCAA conference realignment (part 1 and part 2) and the Euro crisis. To wit:
“The House GOP is failing. The Establishment is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten.
The line of Young Guns is broken. There is no strength left in the Republican caucus.
They’re scattered, divided, leaderless.”
“There is one who could unite them. One who could reclaim the gavel of Boehner.”
“He turned from that path a long time ago. He has chosen the Ways and Means Committee.”
🙂
Also:
“Tea Partiers? The Freedom Caucus? They answer to no one.”
“They will answer to the Representative from Wisconsin!”
https://t.co/xeOxQOuXDw
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 8, 2015
“The Establishment can reforge the gavel of Newt, but only you have the power to wield it”
“I do not want that power” pic.twitter.com/bzES5UDyOF
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 9, 2015
“I do not want that power. I have never wanted it.”
“You are the last of the Young Guns. There is no other.”
https://t.co/6acalOlqmX
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 9, 2015
I just love imagining Hugo Weaving, his eyebrows arched to convey urgency, saying that last line to Paul Ryan.
Anyway… take the Dimholt road, Paul, son of Janesville…
“Who enters the race?”
“One who will have your allegiance.”
“The Tea Party does not suffer the Establishment to pass.”
“YOU WILL SUFFER ME”
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 8, 2015
And then of course there’s that other, less-reluctant Speaker mentionee:
“Plain enough what you’re pointing at. Newt the silly Hobbit started this affair & Newt had better finish it” -Gingrich striding into House
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 8, 2015
I was joking, but then, four hours later:
http://t.co/FPG9O4sESd !!! … ALWAYS TRUST @BRENDANLOY CONTENT https://t.co/NZCTP2S0q3
— Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) October 8, 2015
Heh.