*Breaking*--Reverend Harry Powell named Congressional Chaplain...

[First Speaker]

...a beaming Speaker Paul Ryan today announced that, in an attempt to settle the Chaplainship issue once and for all, he had named the Reverend Harry Powell as Congressional Chaplain. "He's just the man we need for these times," Ryan said. "Not only does he incarnate the family values we Republicans stand for, but he also represents the belief in free enterprise and entrepreneurship that made our country great." The appointment was immediately hailed by the Freedom Caucus, The Focus on the Family, Fox News, and the Federalist Society. Wayne LaPierre, Vice-President of the National Rifle Association, also hailed the move, saying "this is the greatest action the Republican Congress has made in a generation. Now we have someone whom the Liberal Snowflakes are really going to get their panties in a wad over". It's thought that some experience as the Congressional Chaplain might pave the way for a Senatorial run in Powell's home state of Mississippi, despite rumors of certain legal issues that Ryan said jocularly "will be explained very soon." President Trump tweeted: "A helluva guy! God up there is smiling down on us all tonight. We need someone who knows the difference between good and evil!" Vice-President Pence was unable to comment, but is unofficially described as "pleased" by the choice.

[guillaumeb]

1. Do you have a link?

This sounds like The Onion.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I thought that the one that got fire was rehired.

I would want a confirmation of this.

[sarcasmo]

3. Straight, white, family values.

[ornotna]

4. We're fooked

[hlthe2b]

5. Harry Powell:

Reverend Harry Powell is a fictional character in Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter. He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, and by Richard Chamberlain in the 1991 made for TV remake.

Powell is a self declared itinerant preacher, who is also a con artist, and serial killer. He has the words "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand and "HATE" tattooed on the other, a fact that he explains to his victims by using his hands in a sermon about the eternal struggle between good and evil. He spreads the gospel up and down the Ohio River in the late 1920s and early 1930s, gaining the trust of wealthy widows, marrying them and then killing them for their money. Driven by a fanatical hatred of women and sex, he believes that he is doing God's work, as "[God's] book is full of killin's." He roams the West Virginia and Ohio countryside along the river, leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake, until he is arrested for grand theft auto in Parkersburg and sent to the state prison in Moundsville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Harry_Powell

[PSPS]

6. A great movie and, sadly, Laughton's only directorial piece. Wonderful imagery.

[PSPS]

7. FYI, this is satire based on a fictional character portrayed by Robert Mitchum

A remarkable movie well worth watching.

[Hortensis]

8. I'm not finding this, not under that name. ???

By the end of the list of those pleased, I half expected to see Satan on it, so it'd probably good if there isn't some position this guy's filling.

Ryan swore the Jesuit-trained house chaplain, Rev. Conroy, back in earlier today.

[cyclonefence]

9. Well done

Well done, I say.

[flying rabbit]

10. Excellent old school

pop culture satire.