Correspondence With Friend F Concerning Bannon's New Role And The House Speakership

Dear F,

Thanks for your email.

Were it not for Trump, Bannon would be a podunk player.

Now that Donald (and the generals) have banished Bannon, Steve will have to "speak up" to be heard and I don't think he can bear the light of day. When seen for the dark, twisted force he is, the wedge between Bannon and Trump will be driven even deeper.

Concerning the possibility that Ryan is ousted and replaced by a Speaker who is not a member of The House...

Can Anyone Be Speaker of the House?

www.slate.com/articles/news_and.../can_anyone_be_speaker_of_the_house.html

Nov 9, 1998 - Since House members invariably vote along party lines in these elections, the majority candidate always wins. Thus the really important election is the nomination vote within the majority caucus. And House rules do not require that a nominee be a member of Congress.

If Trump pushes for a Speaker who is not a member of The House, I think the thinly-veiled civil war (and pending demise) of The Republican Party (as we know it) will become evident - and with catastrophic consequences.

When this civil war comes out of the closet, the GOP will not be just "an elephant in the room," but a dead, decomposing elephant in the room.

That said, the systematic criminality of the United States -- both in its governmental and plutocratic manifestations -- "deserves" to come undone. (I tell my Christian friends to pray that God is merciful not just.)

We may be witnessing the initial stages of The Empire's demise. 

Or perhaps the opening salvo of another Civil War. 

Which is probably tantamount to resumption of the previous Civil War. 

"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism: The Civil War Is Not Over"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-southerner-explains-tea-party.html

Steve Gibson (who has been dead nearly 25 years) insisted that the most notable fact of American politics is that The Civil War never ended. 

Love

A