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Kevin McCarthy’s Last Minute Deals To Earn Speaker Votes

Kevin is increasingly desperate for votes he doesn’t have.

Dash MacIntyre
3 min readJan 2, 2023
Credit: Matt Johnson | via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

The following are last-minute promises Kevin McCarthy agreed to in order to avoid the political embarrassment of losing the vote for Speaker of the House a 16th time:

  • Lauren Boebert can start bringing a gun onto the House floor every day
  • All Freedom Caucus members get to kick Kevin McCarthy in the testicles every first Tuesday of the month
  • The House will show off Hunter Biden’s dick pics on C-SPAN on day 1
  • Jewish representatives in the Republican caucus have to start wearing a yellow star on their suit jackets
  • The House will institute a new rule that all members have to say “merry Christmas,” and, if they say “happy holidays,” they will be fined $100
  • The House will start hosting monthly tours of the Capitol for Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
  • Every morning the House will formally apologize to billionaires and corporations for taxing them
  • The bathroom signs that say “Employees must wash their hands” will all be removed because they’re an infringement on Constitutional rights
  • Paintings of Jesus in any House member’s office must all…

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Dash MacIntyre
Dash MacIntyre

Written by Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.

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