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"A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river.
The frog is afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, both would sink and the scorpion would drown.
The frog then agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both.
When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature."
--Fable of the Scorpion and the FrogTo say the Republican party currently running the House (into the ground, I might add) were a bunch of scorpions would be an understatement. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), as everyone knows by now, was booted from his Speaker role (a first in our country's history) after he and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) butted heads one too many times. Gaetz and other members of his hard-right so-called "Freedom Caucus" have been telling McCarthy who they were ever since this Congress convened in January.
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