I’m not a doctor, and I don’t even play one on TV. But I suspect Congressman Jamie Comer has the human variant of SDS.
SDS is “Small Dog Syndrome,” also known as “Ankle Biter Syndrome.” A victim of SDS/ABS is “constantly yipping” and “getting in your face,” according to the Holiday Barn Pet Resorts website. “That little yappy dog ... growls at you for no apparent reason, except that you’re in his house or that you are too close to his owner. You just never know if he’s going to snap at you or what!” (You know with Comer if you’re a Democrat.)
Comer’s case of biped SDS got worse when the House GOP leadership handed him the chairman’s gavel at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Comer, who represents Kentucky’s First District in DC, went full-on Chihuahua at the recent closed door briefing from AG Pam Bondi, another Homo Sapiens SDS sufferer. (SDS is a pandemic among Republicans in Washington, Frankfort, and just about everywhere else.)
Committee Democrats walked out in protest over what one of them said was “an outrageous fake hearing,” a Comer specialty.
Anyway, Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said when she asked what the panel might do if Bondi blew off a committee subpoena (which the chairman tried to derail) to testify later, Comer barked that she was “bitching.”
Comer bared his teeth again in a social media post: “I said Democrats were bitching and wasting everyone’s time because Democrats were bitching and wasting everyone’s time.”
For the umpteenth time, Comer proved he’s as classless as he’s clueless. He also thinks decorum belongs in the dumpster when he deals with Democrats.
Just about a year ago, three members of Four Rivers Indivisible, a western Kentucky branch of the national Indivisible organization, donned bright yellow chicken suits and joined a protest outside Comer’s Paducah field office. The idea was to shame him into hosting a town hall, which he still refuses to do.
Comer was elsewhere. But his biped SDS flared.
When he heard about the protest, Comer had staffers knock out a three-sentence statement that concluded, “Congressman Comer does not plan on holding therapy sessions for left-wing activists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
There is therapy for SDS, Holiday Barn assures owners of ornery, pint-sized pets, promising, “It’s not genetic and it can be ‘treated.’” Presumably the same goes for hominid SDS victims.
First, don’t coddle your dog (or congressman). “Picking your dog up when they are barking at another dog (or another member of Congress or chicken suited protestors), for instance, can be seen as a reward to your dog and make them feel that barking is a good behavior.”
Trump regularly cuddles Comer, a favorite in his kennel of lapdogs. The president even rewarded the congressman with a ride on Air Force One, which I guess is like taking the family pooch in the car with the windows down so he can stick his head out.
The website advises teaching “your dog to start walking properly on a leash.” Trump has the whole GOP on his leash. But if polls are right, the Democrats will have what’s left of the House GOP on a leash after Nov. 3 — maybe the Senate, too.
In dealing with an SDS sufferer, Holiday Barn Pet Resorts advises, “Don’t be afraid to set boundaries and to firmly but gently teach him what is acceptable and what is not acceptable behavior.” My guess is the new Democratic Oversight and Accountability chair will so chasten Comer, who is expected to notch another term despite the forecasted Blue Tsunami.
But if he does get another term, he’s still almost certain to run away to Kentucky in 2027 to seek the governorship. If he wins, you can bet he’ll be yipping at the legislature’s Democratic super-minority, getting in their faces and nipping at their ankles.
It will be all-Chihuahua all the time in Frankfort.
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