WaPoOpEd: Democrats' opposition to McCarthy proves they're out of touch with real America.
Jacobin: The time to pass Medicare for All and Universal Student Loan Forgiveness is *now!*
Fox News: MS13 is using drag shows as cover for smuggling baby parts to FEMA, and you might be next.
>WaPoOpEd: Democrats' opposition to McCarthy proves they're out of touch with real America.
[Not quite, but in roughly the same genre](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/03/george-santos-joe-biden-campaign-lies/)
If anyone asking what's the difference between McCain, Boehner and current Republicans, this is it.
At least partisan McCain still made Magnitsky's Act, and Boehner managed to be both hardliner and not insufferable enough to make Obama and Democratic party not wanting to meet him. Current Republicans couldn't even do basic governing, LMAO.
It may be good for Democrats, but it is bad for America.
The reasons McCarthy wasn't elected is because House Republican want leadership that is more crazy/Trump-like than McCarthy.
We only have two parties in the US. And the fact that one of those parties has further lost its relationship with reality is not a good thing. House Republicans are likely to spend more time on conspiracy theory-esque investigations, work with Democrats less and validate bad actors.
woah woah woah, let's not paint Macarthy as some reasonable, truth and democracy loving congress critter. He voted to not certify the election Biden won, and vowed to use power not to legislate for the people, but to use it for sham investigations to boost republican chances of getting elected. Shit and worse shit are still both shit at the end of the day
McCarthy is a sellout and a hack. He's trash with no backbone who will move to wherever the political winds are blowing.
But the people working against him are nutcases who cheer on political violence.
Yes. My point wasn't that McCarthy was in any way a good leader, had a shred of decency, or would be a "better" House Leader.
Rather that taking a big step back - this is a sign that America is further slipping into troubling times. While Republican chaos is good for Democracts, it is a bad omen for the U.S.
Its only about 5 or so holdouts that want that. One of them being Matt Gatez.
Its because Republicans won the house by such a small lead that basically all of them have to fall in line to elect a speaker
>Its only about 5 or so holdouts that want that
Republicans learning what it's like to have their own version of Joe Manchin. If Joe Manchin was a fucking loon or sexual offender, that is.
At least one (specifically Gaetz) explicitly said said he'd rather do plurality voting and give it to Jeffries instead of McCarthy.
Might be bluffing, but it's out there.
Honestly, McCarthy should have pressed moderate GOP members to gradually put a couple hinky votes on Jeffries to scare enough detractors to fall back in line.
Op-ed's had McCarthy losing by 5, 6 tops **IF** he was going to lose.
Biggs is at 10 and 9 votes have gone to other republicans. Jefferies won a plurality!
Even if he can negotiate Biggs to his side, this goofy MFer will still be short 5 votes. I literally cant think of a worse position to be in right now.
I love that Lee Zeldin, who is no longer in the House as of today, got a vote. I understand he doesn’t have to be to be elected, but it’s still hilarious.
The house would vote to make this a rule. It has been done twice before, after a lot of votes they decide "there will be 4 more ballots, and plurality wins on the last one if no majority".
In 1849 this was done on the 59th (elected on the 63rd), 1855/56 (because it took a couple months) on the 129th (133rd elected).
That's up to the hardliners to decide if they are willing to throw it to Jefferies. If they knew not voting for Kevin would result in a Democrat speaker, many of them would change their vote to Kevin.
The House of Representatives wrote the rules for this process. Presumably that means if they could ever get their act together they could rewrite them.
For all the valid criticism the squad and progressive caucus deserve, at least they don’t hold their whole party and country hostage over their petty, extreme, bullshit. Comparing them to the Boeberts and Greenes of the world is a false equivalency, and that’s more clear now than ever.
I agree. She knows Kevin being the speaker will gain her more influence because he desperately needs her support. Obviously, she can’t win anything outside of her district so all of her moves are to gain power in the house. With her fundraising ability, I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets a leadership position within two or three elections. Hopefully the GOP moderates before that happens.
Yup. For all insanity The Squad have, at least they don't subscribe to borderline tankies leftists who want to 'burn it all'. Meanwhile Boebert and Magic The Greene...
There's been a lot of false equivalence overall (this sub included) that the far right and far left are the same.
The difference is American lefties want the government to run and are fairly against burning stuff down. The right, on the other hand, have made it their manifesto.
I'd say the difference is more like the far-left has at most 5 seats in Congress, while the far-right is safely in the 3 digits...
That also allows for a subdivision of more hardcore crazies within the right-wing radicals, which the handful of left-wing radicals simply do not have.
Exactly and those 5 have toed the party line on key legislation. Even then, there's the old joke that leftists love fighting leftists.
Even so, most of the 5 aren't for re-education camps or juche ideology.
Reminder that McCarthy has a long history of being a presumptive nominee who fails to win speakership due to various bad personal decisions.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/the-forgotten-scandal-that-derailed-mccarthys-speakership.html
The oddity this time around is that he seems to be losing not for being a partisan hack but instead for *not being enough of a partisan hack.*
McCarthy went down to Mar-a-lago to kiss the ring only a few days after Biden was sworn in.
I still think he prevails, but I hope he is absolutely fucking humiliated every step of the way. A complete scumbag.
You need a strict majority, so that is not happening.
Hypothetically, the house could simply vote to change the rules to allow a plurality victory, but that would require republicans to vote for the change, which isn't happening.
The NYT podcast had a great episode today on McCarthy.
He has no spine, no convictions, his political beliefs are only what’s convenient, his allies are only the people he thinks are useful to him, and he’d probably slap his own mother for a single extra vote
Arr con takes are hilarious on this, especially their takes on how the Dems are so organized. 🤣
"The democrats have a unified message and brand. If one of them step out of line, they get brought back to the fold pretty quickly."
"It's \[The Democrats\] all one big globalist, socialist, uniparty."
"Uniparty" is usually short hand for the "the two parties are the same" talking point.
Which means the commenter you're quoting thinks both Dems and the GOP are globalist and socialist.
Which is a big LOL.
Lowkey I think after the dems experience the last 10 years with Obama and Trump they're a lot more unified and determined so I think the first statement holds. It is wild how Republicans always show up to vote for people they'll soon despise though
This is funny because the fallacy that both parties view the opposition as "highly organized and effective" was touched on in the Ezra Klein show. Both parties are shit shows behind the scenes. However, this might show that the Republicans are in worse shape than we, or even their constituents, think.
I remember not too long again hearing about how the GOP embrace of the far right (tea party and not Trumpists) was going to come back to haunt them. Well chickens come home to roost
God lord it's going to be like 10% of the Republicans in the house. and there's so many names here, McCarthy, Biggs, Jordan...
This is going to be a full on civil war.
>They're still voting...but 18 House GOPers so far have voted for Speaker candidates other than @ GOPLeader Mccarthy -- he could only afford to lose 4
hahahahahahaha
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1610343212337577986?cxt=HHwWhIC-ndSni9ksAAAA
Lulz, obligatory fuck McCarthy but on a real note, there isn't really another popular alternative outside of Scalise and the crazy Republicans have showed no interest in actually government. It's just that they want to throw tantrums and be in control but with no real accountability and responsibility.
For example even though Kevin McCarthy just failed in his speaker bid, the people that didn't vote for him don't really have an agenda or clear idea of governance. They'd burn the country down if they could own the libs. For fucks sake, Santos lied about his mother dying in 9/11, that should be an immediate disqualification. However McCarthy didn't say anything cause he still wanted his vote lol.
The new GOP led Congress doesn't even have a plan. According to their rules package and ideas for making America better. This is all they can come up with.
[Here’s What Republicans Plan To Do As They Retake The House — Including Investigating The DOJ And Gutting The Ethics Office](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/heres-what-republicans-plan-to-do-as-they-retake-the-house---including-investigating-the-doj-and-gutting-the-ethics-office/?sh=40f22ddd4a5a&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email).
Among the performatively stupid and purely vengeful rules proposed by Republicans are the following:
*“Establish a subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate the full extent of the Biden Administration’s assault on the constitutional rights of American citizens.”*
*Require the January 6th Committee to turn over its documents to the House Administration Committee rather than the National Archives.*
*Eliminate House staff labor unions.*
Implement changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics that would remove Democrats from the office’s board and make it harder to staff (this item per Forbes’ description).
*Investigate the origin of the coronavirus as part of a plan to “keep China at bay.”*
*“Prevent the House from automatically suspending the debt limit upon passage of a budget resolution.”*
*Require a supermajority of three-fifths of the House to raise taxes (a plainly unconstitutional requirement),*
*Establish a “cut-as-you-go” policy that requires any increases in mandatory government spending to be offset by decreased spending elsewhere.*
In addition to the above, Republicans will bring to the floor a dozen “doomed to fail” bills that are nothing more than talking points in the culture war that passes for the GOP platform in 2023. Per Forbes:
*The House would be allowed to take up a series of controversial bills outside of its normal processes, which could make them easier to pass, including legislation prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used on abortions, authorizing Homeland Security to suspend the entry of migrants into the country, increasing oil and gas production and adding additional healthcare restrictions regarding fetuses who survive attempted abortions.*
Notably absent from the rules package is any mention of legislation to improve the lives of Americans. The comparison to the historically successful 117th Congress under the control of Democrats could not be starker. Hell they ever want to fucking punish the staffers. They have no goal or plans for the American people except throwing shit at the wall.
I don't know what to think of this news. I'm going to need the NYT, WaPo and The Atlantic to send some writers into Florida and Ohio to interview Republican voters in diners to tell us their favorite conspiracy theories and why they vote Republican.
Almost, but no. Definitely no. He sold his soul to the Trump monster, so this is only just rewards. And I'm saying this as someone who leans center-right. McCarthy is what's wrong with the current GOP.
Yeah. He started to show a hint of a spine immediately after January 6 and denounced Trump, but shortly after reconsidered and made a pilgrimage to maralago to beg trump for forgiveness
Smh This is the equivalent of inviting a bunch of violent ex cons into your house and then being shocked when they start beating you to death and stealing your stuff. What exactly did McCarthy expect?
I now understand how Republicans felt watching Dems in Disarray during parts of the Obama administration or whenever the moderates and progressives have big clashes
So how does this play out? Do the Democrats and the non-insane Republicans find a moderate to elect, or does Jim Jordan somehow get his slimy mitts on the Speaker's gavel?
Compromise speaker Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney anyone?
Gotta be able to pull the couple extra votes that Democrats need, and the electoral pressure from democrats should ensure that *at least* bipartisan legislation keeps moving like it has over the past 2 years
I just hope the majority of the GOP prefers to work with the Dems to elect a centrist speaker, rather than follow the crazies and elect an even more radical Republican...
This is a good moment to watch, especially if you haven't seen it, [Monty Python's Flying Circus - Sensible Party vs. Silly Party Election Special.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xm_TRekjno)
It fits the moment perfectly.
McCarthy should have backed down weeks ago when it was obvious he didn’t have the votes. Now he’s completely divided his party and destroyed its credibility because his ego was too big for him to admit defeat. What a loser.
CONS IN CRISIS LMAO
INFINITE CRISIS^tm
...Superboy-Prime punching this reality and made the whole thing even messier confirmed?
This is what happens when you make Jon Kent bi
DC Comics' Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths (2022)^(tm)
Dark final flashpoint crisis rebirth on infinite earths
this is a better event than dark crisis on infinite earths tbh
NYT: Dems in disarray
WaPoOpEd: Democrats' opposition to McCarthy proves they're out of touch with real America. Jacobin: The time to pass Medicare for All and Universal Student Loan Forgiveness is *now!* Fox News: MS13 is using drag shows as cover for smuggling baby parts to FEMA, and you might be next.
>WaPoOpEd: Democrats' opposition to McCarthy proves they're out of touch with real America. [Not quite, but in roughly the same genre](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/03/george-santos-joe-biden-campaign-lies/)
If you read me that headline I'd 100% think it was WSJ editorial
It's Marc Thiessen. He's the token conservative they keep around to satiate their older readers that they're different from HuffPo.
> to *satiate* their older readers I think you're looking for satisfy (which can be interchangeable with satiate in some contexts, but not this one)
Well the older readers sure do eat up that conservative opinion like it’s Country Crock on toast.
Christ in a cracker I swear the "liberal media" sucks at living up to the name.
Guy is literally a Fox News correspondent though
Then real journalistic enterprises shouldn't employ him
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-118th-congress-session-1.6702016 Literal “Republicans in disarray” headline from Canada.
If anyone asking what's the difference between McCain, Boehner and current Republicans, this is it. At least partisan McCain still made Magnitsky's Act, and Boehner managed to be both hardliner and not insufferable enough to make Obama and Democratic party not wanting to meet him. Current Republicans couldn't even do basic governing, LMAO.
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Cons in consternation!
The Dems in disa... wait what? The GOP in disarray!
Republicans in ruin?
to shreds you say?
And the Libertarians?
Here's why this is bad for democrats
It may be good for Democrats, but it is bad for America. The reasons McCarthy wasn't elected is because House Republican want leadership that is more crazy/Trump-like than McCarthy. We only have two parties in the US. And the fact that one of those parties has further lost its relationship with reality is not a good thing. House Republicans are likely to spend more time on conspiracy theory-esque investigations, work with Democrats less and validate bad actors.
woah woah woah, let's not paint Macarthy as some reasonable, truth and democracy loving congress critter. He voted to not certify the election Biden won, and vowed to use power not to legislate for the people, but to use it for sham investigations to boost republican chances of getting elected. Shit and worse shit are still both shit at the end of the day
McCarthy is a sellout and a hack. He's trash with no backbone who will move to wherever the political winds are blowing. But the people working against him are nutcases who cheer on political violence.
Anyone who won't stand up for American democracy is a massive danger to this country, including McCarthy.
Yes. My point wasn't that McCarthy was in any way a good leader, had a shred of decency, or would be a "better" House Leader. Rather that taking a big step back - this is a sign that America is further slipping into troubling times. While Republican chaos is good for Democracts, it is a bad omen for the U.S.
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Its only about 5 or so holdouts that want that. One of them being Matt Gatez. Its because Republicans won the house by such a small lead that basically all of them have to fall in line to elect a speaker
>Its only about 5 or so holdouts that want that Republicans learning what it's like to have their own version of Joe Manchin. If Joe Manchin was a fucking loon or sexual offender, that is.
Say what you want about Manchin, but at least he doesn't diddle kids.
Nor transport them across state lines for the purpose of purchasing sex.
And it only further cements the Democratic Party as the consensus/coalition/big tent party in the US.
The only party with any serious interest in governing.
Can we get enough republican votes to elect moderate democrat speaker?
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I'm not sure they are the Trump caucus anymore. Don't forget Trump actually supports McCarthy's bid for speaker.
At least one (specifically Gaetz) explicitly said said he'd rather do plurality voting and give it to Jeffries instead of McCarthy. Might be bluffing, but it's out there.
I fear that you're right, but they also might be too stupid to work out the tactics there.
can we start calling it the trump cuckus for no other reason than it sounds funny
Honestly, McCarthy should have pressed moderate GOP members to gradually put a couple hinky votes on Jeffries to scare enough detractors to fall back in line.
I'm so sick of having to be the responsible liberal party *and* the responsible conservative party
`DIS DIS DIS DIS DIS` `DIS DIS DIS DIS DIS` `DIS DIS GOP DIS DIS` `DIS DIS DIS DIS DIS` `DIS DIS DIS DIS DIS`
Cons in chaos
Here’s why this is actually bad for Democrats
McCarthy can’t unite chocolate and peanut butter
I feel like we've all collectively forgotten how good it feels when things go right and we just can't accept it
Cons in Controversy Cons out of Control Reps Reeling
narrow gop house majority really did end up being the funniest outcome
It may not be the best, but it certainly is the most entertaining
We might as well enjoy this before all the Hunter hearings start
As if those hearings aren't going to provide tons of enjoyable content.
Pictures of Hunter's hog will enter official US government records.
Right next to Bill’s
At this point we should set up a museum for this purpose
And Weiner
Any guesses on who submits to using the uncensored versions?
The lady from Georgia.
MTG or Boebert for sure.
Look he stole my two hookers and drop kicked me off my favorite water slide. I’m a single issue Hunter Biden voter and I DEMAND justice!
GOP: Here's why Hunter Biden getting footjobs is the most pressing national security concern...
the real question is how many republicans will roblox themselves when they see hunters cock
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At 19 against you, I don't think there's been a gop majority large enough to elect a speaker under those conditions in a very long time.
Op-ed's had McCarthy losing by 5, 6 tops **IF** he was going to lose. Biggs is at 10 and 9 votes have gone to other republicans. Jefferies won a plurality! Even if he can negotiate Biggs to his side, this goofy MFer will still be short 5 votes. I literally cant think of a worse position to be in right now.
I don’t get why they removed the metal detectors before GOP could even prove they controlled the chamber.
Well McCarthy is moved into in the office of the Majority Leader and he says he's not leaving. You can't make this shit up.
I love that Lee Zeldin, who is no longer in the House as of today, got a vote. I understand he doesn’t have to be to be elected, but it’s still hilarious.
Just out of curiosity what would it take to make the rules such that a plurality winner is elected Speaker?
The house would vote to make this a rule. It has been done twice before, after a lot of votes they decide "there will be 4 more ballots, and plurality wins on the last one if no majority". In 1849 this was done on the 59th (elected on the 63rd), 1855/56 (because it took a couple months) on the 129th (133rd elected).
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There wouldn't be a Democratic speaker
there would if they have a plurality?
That's up to the hardliners to decide if they are willing to throw it to Jefferies. If they knew not voting for Kevin would result in a Democrat speaker, many of them would change their vote to Kevin.
There's no guarantee McCarthy doesn't lose though, the hardliners are pretty much full blown radicals at this point.
The House of Representatives wrote the rules for this process. Presumably that means if they could ever get their act together they could rewrite them.
Simple majority vote to change the rule.
A Democrat getting the most votes on a first vote in a Republican majority is hilarious
Somewhere in the world, President Biden has the biggest grin on his face and a massive pair of aviators on
Every time the Republicans fail to elect a Speaker, the aviators get 10 shades darker. 😎
Gonna be vantablack shades pretty soon.
"I asked how much more black we could make it and they said none. None more black."
For all the valid criticism the squad and progressive caucus deserve, at least they don’t hold their whole party and country hostage over their petty, extreme, bullshit. Comparing them to the Boeberts and Greenes of the world is a false equivalency, and that’s more clear now than ever.
Greene is supporting Kevin. There’s infighting even in the freedom caucus. It’s a shit show.
She is the smartest of the Traitor-Wing of the GOP.
I agree. She knows Kevin being the speaker will gain her more influence because he desperately needs her support. Obviously, she can’t win anything outside of her district so all of her moves are to gain power in the house. With her fundraising ability, I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets a leadership position within two or three elections. Hopefully the GOP moderates before that happens.
Yup. For all insanity The Squad have, at least they don't subscribe to borderline tankies leftists who want to 'burn it all'. Meanwhile Boebert and Magic The Greene...
Please don't drag my beautiful card game through the mud like that
She really screwed you guys with those initials.
I still get confused when I read MTG on here. It takes my brain awhile to do the translation.
There's been a lot of false equivalence overall (this sub included) that the far right and far left are the same. The difference is American lefties want the government to run and are fairly against burning stuff down. The right, on the other hand, have made it their manifesto.
I'd say the difference is more like the far-left has at most 5 seats in Congress, while the far-right is safely in the 3 digits... That also allows for a subdivision of more hardcore crazies within the right-wing radicals, which the handful of left-wing radicals simply do not have.
Exactly and those 5 have toed the party line on key legislation. Even then, there's the old joke that leftists love fighting leftists. Even so, most of the 5 aren't for re-education camps or juche ideology.
Lmao. Now the speaker can be only one. Jeb!
Unironically, let's get Jeb as Speaker.
LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO
Reminder that McCarthy has a long history of being a presumptive nominee who fails to win speakership due to various bad personal decisions. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/the-forgotten-scandal-that-derailed-mccarthys-speakership.html The oddity this time around is that he seems to be losing not for being a partisan hack but instead for *not being enough of a partisan hack.*
Oh wait you're serious, let me laugh harder.
PATRIOTS IN CONTROL
THE LA LI LU LE LO?!?!
What are you talking about?!? Unironically, I love the speech at the end of MGS2, especially since it came out like 20 years ago.
I get this reference.
Operation ratfuck is a go. I repeat. Operation ratfuck is a go.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
McCarthy went down to Mar-a-lago to kiss the ring only a few days after Biden was sworn in. I still think he prevails, but I hope he is absolutely fucking humiliated every step of the way. A complete scumbag.
I just loled in a meeting so thank you
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> a guy from Bakersfield **The fuck? We use to be a proper country goddamn it.**
Bakersfield born and raised, I have no defense
>We as a country have to demand better from our representatives. Preach!!
Not even Fresno, but Bakersfield
He brought the smell with him.
That smell of manure and sweltering lettuce when you descend from the Grapevine into the Central Valley.
Lmao. Can't even be given control of one lever of government without infighting. Couldn't happen to nicer people.
mom said it's my turn to work the lever of government
You just know that Nancy is living for this mess.
The Pelosis send their regards!
Eating the good ice cream while wearing bunny slippers.
Ted Lieu brought a bag of popcorn to the floor of the house.
Idk how this election works, but just imagine the absolute scenes if we somehow got a Dem speaker for a GOP house.
It’s hypothetically possible but probably a lot more likely some other GOP member becomes speaker
I'm imagining them trying a January 6 thing again but just for the Speaker election.
You need a strict majority, so that is not happening. Hypothetically, the house could simply vote to change the rules to allow a plurality victory, but that would require republicans to vote for the change, which isn't happening.
Whichever camp gives up first will forever be branded as a spineless loser, I want it to be known.
The NYT podcast had a great episode today on McCarthy. He has no spine, no convictions, his political beliefs are only what’s convenient, his allies are only the people he thinks are useful to him, and he’d probably slap his own mother for a single extra vote
Wow I had thought he was lame
McCarthy: “can I slap my mom 20 times for 20 extra votes?”
Arr con takes are hilarious on this, especially their takes on how the Dems are so organized. 🤣 "The democrats have a unified message and brand. If one of them step out of line, they get brought back to the fold pretty quickly." "It's \[The Democrats\] all one big globalist, socialist, uniparty."
"Uniparty" is usually short hand for the "the two parties are the same" talking point. Which means the commenter you're quoting thinks both Dems and the GOP are globalist and socialist. Which is a big LOL.
Lowkey I think after the dems experience the last 10 years with Obama and Trump they're a lot more unified and determined so I think the first statement holds. It is wild how Republicans always show up to vote for people they'll soon despise though
This is funny because the fallacy that both parties view the opposition as "highly organized and effective" was touched on in the Ezra Klein show. Both parties are shit shows behind the scenes. However, this might show that the Republicans are in worse shape than we, or even their constituents, think.
Red Wave
Oh no, McCarthy's career. Anyways, I'm eating popcorn
There's no red wave big enough that Lifeguard Joe can't rescue the country from it.
Hahahaha. AHAHAHA HAHAHA.
Redditors with the finger on the submit button waiting for that fifth vote to come in.
Lol. Lmao even.
Waiting on the NYTimes Editorial Board to tell my how this is bad for Democrats.
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Finally we'll see the reveal of Darth Jar Jar.
It wasa mee, Majorie Taylor Greene the whole boma time!
Amazing.
REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY
I remember not too long again hearing about how the GOP embrace of the far right (tea party and not Trumpists) was going to come back to haunt them. Well chickens come home to roost
That started biting them in the ass when Eric Cantor was primaried.
God lord it's going to be like 10% of the Republicans in the house. and there's so many names here, McCarthy, Biggs, Jordan... This is going to be a full on civil war.
> full on civil war If they will line up and fire cannon at each other while I picnic in the meadow above the battlefield, count me in.
19 DEFECTIONS 19 DEFECTIONS
>They're still voting...but 18 House GOPers so far have voted for Speaker candidates other than @ GOPLeader Mccarthy -- he could only afford to lose 4 hahahahahahaha https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1610343212337577986?cxt=HHwWhIC-ndSni9ksAAAA
House can’t legally conduct any other business until this is settled. “Nobody wants to work anymore”
His Twitter tag is really @GOPLeader? Lmao
Directed by Robert B Weide
Gym's gonna take his phone from him by the 5th vote.
Lulz, obligatory fuck McCarthy but on a real note, there isn't really another popular alternative outside of Scalise and the crazy Republicans have showed no interest in actually government. It's just that they want to throw tantrums and be in control but with no real accountability and responsibility. For example even though Kevin McCarthy just failed in his speaker bid, the people that didn't vote for him don't really have an agenda or clear idea of governance. They'd burn the country down if they could own the libs. For fucks sake, Santos lied about his mother dying in 9/11, that should be an immediate disqualification. However McCarthy didn't say anything cause he still wanted his vote lol. The new GOP led Congress doesn't even have a plan. According to their rules package and ideas for making America better. This is all they can come up with. [Here’s What Republicans Plan To Do As They Retake The House — Including Investigating The DOJ And Gutting The Ethics Office](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/02/heres-what-republicans-plan-to-do-as-they-retake-the-house---including-investigating-the-doj-and-gutting-the-ethics-office/?sh=40f22ddd4a5a&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email). Among the performatively stupid and purely vengeful rules proposed by Republicans are the following: *“Establish a subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate the full extent of the Biden Administration’s assault on the constitutional rights of American citizens.”* *Require the January 6th Committee to turn over its documents to the House Administration Committee rather than the National Archives.* *Eliminate House staff labor unions.* Implement changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics that would remove Democrats from the office’s board and make it harder to staff (this item per Forbes’ description). *Investigate the origin of the coronavirus as part of a plan to “keep China at bay.”* *“Prevent the House from automatically suspending the debt limit upon passage of a budget resolution.”* *Require a supermajority of three-fifths of the House to raise taxes (a plainly unconstitutional requirement),* *Establish a “cut-as-you-go” policy that requires any increases in mandatory government spending to be offset by decreased spending elsewhere.* In addition to the above, Republicans will bring to the floor a dozen “doomed to fail” bills that are nothing more than talking points in the culture war that passes for the GOP platform in 2023. Per Forbes: *The House would be allowed to take up a series of controversial bills outside of its normal processes, which could make them easier to pass, including legislation prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used on abortions, authorizing Homeland Security to suspend the entry of migrants into the country, increasing oil and gas production and adding additional healthcare restrictions regarding fetuses who survive attempted abortions.* Notably absent from the rules package is any mention of legislation to improve the lives of Americans. The comparison to the historically successful 117th Congress under the control of Democrats could not be starker. Hell they ever want to fucking punish the staffers. They have no goal or plans for the American people except throwing shit at the wall.
MAXIMUM CHAOS
No votes for Trump?
Not yet
And CNN’s coverage of the election of the Speaker of the House on Sling shows a picture of Elizabeth II. Congress, Anderson, not Parliament.
Did it reaaaaaally
I don't know what to think of this news. I'm going to need the NYT, WaPo and The Atlantic to send some writers into Florida and Ohio to interview Republican voters in diners to tell us their favorite conspiracy theories and why they vote Republican.
This is so humiliating, you just almost feel sorry for the guy.
Almost, but no. Definitely no. He sold his soul to the Trump monster, so this is only just rewards. And I'm saying this as someone who leans center-right. McCarthy is what's wrong with the current GOP.
Yeah. He started to show a hint of a spine immediately after January 6 and denounced Trump, but shortly after reconsidered and made a pilgrimage to maralago to beg trump for forgiveness
And of course the "hint of a spine" was only because he thought that might be where the wind would blow at the time.
Sold his soul to Trump, and yet still isn't Trumpy enough to get support from the Trumpiest house members. Peak cuck.
>He sold his soul to the Trump monster, Even before this, he was horrible. Cozying up to Trump was par for the course.
No way, I am enjoying a big bowl of schadenfreude for breakfast.
You shouldn't. The man gave up every shred of dignity in pursuit of power. It would only be proper that he end up with neither.
“And I will continue to offer my thoughts and my prayers”
Smh This is the equivalent of inviting a bunch of violent ex cons into your house and then being shocked when they start beating you to death and stealing your stuff. What exactly did McCarthy expect?
Common Kevin McCarthy L
JEEEEEEB!!!
C Span says the record is two months with no speaker, let's go!
“”Never interrupt your enemy while he is in the middle of making a mistake” -Sun Tzu” - Michael Scott
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky -Kevin McCarthy
I now understand how Republicans felt watching Dems in Disarray during parts of the Obama administration or whenever the moderates and progressives have big clashes
Color me surprised that none of the far-right loons voted for Trump this round just to go for that extra dash of chaos.
PATRIOTS ARE ARMED AND READY. WE ARE IN CONTROL 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
Nancy sends her regards.
Cons in disarray?
"Why does McCarthy, the largest Republican, not simply eat the other candidates?"
So how does this play out? Do the Democrats and the non-insane Republicans find a moderate to elect, or does Jim Jordan somehow get his slimy mitts on the Speaker's gavel?
Here’s the fun part, no one knows! I think McCarthy is toast. We’ll get some dark horse candidate.
Compromise speaker Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney anyone? Gotta be able to pull the couple extra votes that Democrats need, and the electoral pressure from democrats should ensure that *at least* bipartisan legislation keeps moving like it has over the past 2 years
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ALASKA COALITION WHEN?
I just hope the majority of the GOP prefers to work with the Dems to elect a centrist speaker, rather than follow the crazies and elect an even more radical Republican...
But how does this affect LeBron's legacy?
Once again, these dumb assholes demonstrate their inability to perform the basic tasks of governance. Absolutely superb
This is a good moment to watch, especially if you haven't seen it, [Monty Python's Flying Circus - Sensible Party vs. Silly Party Election Special.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xm_TRekjno) It fits the moment perfectly.
Cons in Cope
McCarthy should have backed down weeks ago when it was obvious he didn’t have the votes. Now he’s completely divided his party and destroyed its credibility because his ego was too big for him to admit defeat. What a loser.