Monstrous fascist Republican New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik may back out of the nomination for UN Ambassador, confirmation for which has been on hold for months, per CBS’s Jen Jacobs, who writes the new gig is “in jeopardy as pressure mounts for her to back away” from the job “partly because Republicans hold a small majority in the US House. There are discussions being held this morning about whether she should pull her nomination as soon as today.”

First off that would sure suck if Stefanik stays in Congress and not at the UN where nobody has to ever hear from her again, but more importantly that’s pretty fucking strange, right? Why wouldn’t they at least wait until after the specials in Florida next week? Republicans have FL-1 in the bag and are still heavily favored in FL-6, despite Randy Fine being such a cunt that even other MAGA clowns hate him. Two House Dems in blue districts died just this month and probably won’t have anyone taking over until November, so by next Saturday it’ll (likely) be 220 R to 213 D. How’s that meaningfully different than where they were at when Stefanik accepted the nomination?

Not going to tantalize anyone by speculating that maybe they know something we don’t about a major scandal and/or a health issue facing one or more other House Republicans. The most likely explanation is that now they simply underestimated how hard it would be to cut taxes on the wealthy while inflicting more suffering on poor people and need every single vote they can get.