The first week is in the books...with 51 to go.
The weather has been everywhere...from bitterly cold and snow...to rain and mid-sixty degrees with thunderstorms and even some sunshine.
Yes...kind of weird.
This week also saw a true miracle when Damar Hamlin (Safety for the Bills) was playing the Bengals...made a tackle...then collapsed on the field and had cardiac arrest.
They worked him for almost 10 minutes...finally restored his heartbeat...ambulanced him to a nearby hospital where he arrested again and was revived a second time.
But is now awake...breathing on his own...alert and has lost none of his neurological functions...and his first question was
Who Won The Game???
...the doctors replied...
YOU
Another near-miracle this week is that after all the chaos and unrest in The House...and after 15 roll calls...we finally have three branches of government again.
and Kevin McCarthy has his gavel.
The faces through 15 votes and 4 days of trying to achieve this...
And the moment when you realize you've finally done it...
To be completely fair...204 Republicans WANTED him to be SOTH...and 20 agents of chaos within his own party held out and forced this thing into the circus it became.
Of course they were the usual group of clowns.
Gaetz, Boebert, Biggs, Gosar, and 16 others.
Gaetz even went as far as to tell him on the floor of the House he would never ever ever be SOTH...and if he did make it that he (Gaetz) would promptly resign.
...a promise I sincerely hope he keeps...
I dislike Kevin.
I think he will be, at best, an ineffectual SOTH.
Of course, I would have preferred Jeffries...but it was not to be.
Is this the end of the world and life as we know it?
NO.
They can not pass any extreme legislation...the Senate would make sure it is DOA...and worst case the President would veto it.
All they can spend the next two years doing is gumming up the works and showing the 2024 voters exactly WHO they are.
It should seal the deal for us in 2024.
Let's hope.
If ANYONE deserved the gavel it should have gone to this woman...
Who had to read the roll call names a total of 6,540 times.
Woke to hot cocoa and frost on everything...soon to Cinderella the house...get some lunch...and settle in for the Kansas-Raiders game later with John.
Enjoy Your Weekend.
Love,
Carla and the Sofi-Cat
