Big-Ass Drunken Southern Party

Christine drowned on her fist sober birthday. She had too much to drink thanks to that rogue wave. My daughter’s mother knew the Tea Party goons were coming after me, led by her daughter. Her aunt knew Bill Cornwell was going to make trouble for me. His father is a Tea Party Crazy who just destroyed the Republican Party – as I predicted! These asshole are too drunk on

righteousness to govern. WASHINGTON — Republicans expanded their numbers in the House and won the Senate in 2014 by asking voters to give them control of Congress and let them prove they could govern the country. Right now, they appear unable to govern themselves.

Representative Kevin McCarthy’s abrupt withdrawal Thursday from a speaker’s race he had been favored to win threw the House into tumult and left open the question of who would lead the chamber as Congress faces a series of deadlines to fund the government and keep the nation’s credit intact. It also threatened the party’s credibility with a presidential election just a year away.

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