LABRADOR: Not our speaker

Chuck Malloy was right to write about Raul Labrador.

Idaho may not realize that the head muckety muck of the new “hell no caucus” is our own lap-dog Labrador.

A key organizer of the Ted Cruz-loving Freedom Caucus whose biggest enemies are Mitch McConnell among other Republicans.

This caucus of 30 or so boneheads hated Speaker Boehner’s audacity to not shut down the government, but is only 1/7 of the 218 needed to pass anything. Raul is the token Latino in a party devoid of just about any non-white or non-male group that gained the right to vote in the last century, including women who went for Obama 55 percent to 44 percent.

The new Freedom Caucus includes a winner like South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, who lied to the press about hiking on the Appalachian trail, when instead he was really tending to his Argentine lover while his wife was with the kids, who attended the best Christian school in Columbia. His kids finally got to meet the new Argentine Mrs. on stage when he ran for Congress at a campaign rally.

But one need only go back to the last Idaho state Republican convention to see how well a Labrador gavel-ship went. Under Raul’s leadership, the GOP convention couldn’t even agree on who was or wasn’t a delegate, and the convention ended before it could begin. Now Labrador wants to lecture Congress on what a good speaker is?

Letting Labrador divide the party is a sure bet way to lose the White House again in 2016, because Lap-dog Labrador makes the 99.5 percent of the country that doesn’t live in Idaho either roll their eyes or just laugh.

MIKE RENO

Post Falls