Thanks in no small part to impossible to deliver expectations or even reasonably manage a marginal majority because the national party failed to win enough House seats (yet the Angel of Accountability passed over the RNC hq after that inexplicable fiasco), the US House of Representatives once again finds itself without a speaker.

And once again there’s no telling when.one will be elected, even.though the GOP House caucus did endorse by a majority vote Louisiana US Representative and Majority Leader Steve Scalise to assume the gavel.

But as we’ve seen in both state and federal legislative chambers, winning the support of your colleagues is not enough when those on the losing end view the unfavorable caucus results as either a basement to negotiate with others from or to engage in an Abramsesque high-profile refusal to accept a legitimate loss.

And then there’s the sordid game that serial publicity hound and attention craving opportunist Congresswoman Nancy Mace is playing, but I’ll get to that political carny and her latest “lookatme” shill momentarily.

I’m not going to say Steve Scalise deserves to be speaker, for nobody is entitled to a position of power.

I will say that Scalise is one of the most real, sincere, personable, and decent individuals I’ve met in politics. Steve is completely devoid of pretense or arrogance and has been perennially popular with his colleagues not due to the performance of favors but being someone you can fairly conduct political business with.

And in the far less partisan charged confines of the Louisiana Legislature, Steve was highly regarded by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

Though in the House leadership, he’s no stranger to his district or his constituents, giving him that taste and whiff of the real world outside the 202 area code membrane.

And yes, Steve Scalise has been tested in ways that few individuals in Congress have ever endured, coming close to being killed, scratch that, murdered by an impressionable leftist who took Democratic politicians at their word about the Republican menace.

And now we come back to Congresswoman Mace.

The twice-divorced South Carolina congresswoman was part of a group of 8 Republicans who voted with 208 Democrats to give Speaker Kevin McCarthy the heave-ho from the rostrum.

And rather than show a little dignity in light of the historic vacating of the speaker Mace decided to show something else by preening about the halls of Congress in a form-fitting shirt with a large scarlet A.

Why?

“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week I just had, being a woman up here, and being demonized for my vote and for my voice. I will do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences.”

Apparently Mace fancies herself a real profile in courage for joining ranks with Maxine Waters, Eric Swalwell, and AOC to create political chaos.

Oh by the way, which department store in Beltway carries a Nathaniel Hawthorne line of blouses in stock? Surely this move cannot have been contrived!

Maybe she’s going to try to sell those shirts on her campaign website. Judging by the matching smirk the congresswoman wore while promenading past the media cameras only to happy to capture the latest Republican to make a fool out of himself/herself, Mace seemed rather proud of her demonstration of political couture.

But if Mace’s political asaninity were confined pairing a silly vote with a sillier shirt, she’d just be the latest embarrassment in a House GOP caucus where any moonbat can make Dr Evil like political extortion demands due to the GOP’s razor-thin margin of control.

But Mace had to go one step further to get her attention fix in, by maliciously castigating the character of Steve Scalise.

It’s bad enough the man barely survived a literal assassination attempt but to be subjected to a crass character assassination attempt by the self-promoting Mace just because she was on the losing side of a caucus vote is a disqualifying action.

Of course Mace isn’t the only Republican refusing to accept the results of the caucus vote…I mean Congressman McLuvin George Santos (or whatever his/her real name is) has solemnly declared that “they” will vote for anyone but Scalise and then there’s Lauren Boebert, who recently got thrown out of a traveling performance of Beetlejuice for conduct unbecoming of a 15 year old.

But with the world literally on fire we have seen where the priorities of these individuals who hold the highest offices in the nation truly are: their mirrors and their fundraising lists.

Steve Scalise doesn’t deserve to be speaker; as I said earlier, nobody deserves or is entitled to power.

But Steve Scalise has certainly earned the responsibility of leading the House by experience and by vote.

It’s time for his colleagues to grow up, quit showing the American public that they’re no more competent than the current administration, and get over themselves for the sake of not just the party for our nation.