DISORDER IN THE HOUSE

Embarrassing, childish, shameful, damaging, dangerous, choose your own word here. What we saw transpire in Congress this week was unnerving for the country. It was chaos in the House; and it portended a tumultuous next two years. The radical fringe is in control. It will be a wild ride.

Extra troublesome to me is that the two most rambunctious people of this devolution into near-anarchy were elected by landslides in the districts near and dear to me. Rep. Mike Rogers represents my Congressional district in Alabama and has for many years.

In a pique of anger, he lunged at Matt Gaetz (on live worldwide television) and had to be muzzled and dragged away by a friend from NC. It will be hard to forgive this sorry display of behavior. Mike Rogers is an embarrassment to the good people of eastern Alabama and he should resign immediately. I would tell him so but his social media sites have crashed.

Speaking of embarrassment, what about that loose cannon Matt Gaetz? Unfortunately, he represents my hometown, Pensacola.

Apparently, he thoroughly enjoyed hogging the spotlight for days on end as he led a very public and humiliating denunciation of McCarthy, only to support him in the end. No doubt he reveled in all the attention. He and his twenty or so kindergarten classmates discovered they could control the classroom and they did. Since they have proven the point, can we expect any different behavior in the future? I doubt it.

The good citizens of the Third Congressional district of Alabama and the First District of Florida deserve better than this. Let's hope they remember what happened this week when they go to the polls in the next election (Nov. 2024).