Kevin McCarthy is out as speaker.
It’s kinda fun. He sucks.
However, they’ll choose someone worse so it’s a tiny celebratory moment.
Kevin McCarthy is out as speaker.
It’s kinda fun. He sucks.
However, they’ll choose someone worse so it’s a tiny celebratory moment.
Maybe some more moderate Republicans can form a coalition with a handful of Democrats to elect the new speaker. Since the GOP only have a very small majority, they won't have the votes for some fringe MAGA nominee.
No idea what comes next.
Yeah, I really think we should have offered him at least the vote for a proper and permanent funding bill but he was already saying he wasn't going to play ball.
That said, the freedom caucus sort of gave up the game when it became clear they were planning to oust him during the shutdown, even if he gave them everything they wanted. I think the plan was to shut down and then leave us without the means to start back up.
Also think a lot of the stuff coming out of the right is extremely frightening now. Going to war with Mexico, shooting shoplifters. Like this is stuff that would truly end our way of life in this country
Last edited by Wretchedest; 10-03-2023 at 11:18 PM.
McCarthy trashed the Democrats on the Sunday news shows, blaming them for the near shutdown. If he hadn't, he might have been able to pick off a few in order to keep the speakership.
This was all totally personal. This is big mess.
i’m personally enjoying it tho. i love republicans infighting especially when the dems do what i want which isn’t very often.
Now there's talks about Trump taking the seat We're doomed.
That was floated last time by Gaetz iirc. Though at the time it was a protest nomination against McCarthy so this one might be serious.
I kind of want to see that, just because he's so bad at everything and this would involve him actually working as @sweeterthan points out. lol
Oh, JFC, it’s probably going to be Gym Jordan.
Celebration’s over, folks. Back to dread and chronic eye rolling.
some Republicans are even trying to nominate Trump as Speaker, LOL
lol there's a disambiguation page for the 2023 Speaker Elections.
2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election may refer to:
January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
Placing bets on Gym Jordan becoming the new house speaker?
i’m willing to bet the republicans will put someone terrible in power but gym doesn’t have the votes rn. fingers crossed it stays that way.
Gym loses round one.
You love to see it.
he'll get it. I won't expect it to be the McCarthy marathon either.
this country's fucked.
Jordan goes down in Rd 2 as well. Worse than yesterday!
Yeah, he will probably get there but let me enjoy the in between.
Last edited by Swykk; 10-18-2023 at 12:32 PM.
Gotta tip my hat to the Jim Jordan opponents. That is some evil genius shit to pressure him by intentionally making him look worse in each subsequent vote:
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...c108b964b4c7b3
Opponents of Jim Jordan’s speakership have been deploying a strategy aimed at pressuring the Ohio Republican to drop out of the race: purposely staggering their “no” votes across multiple ballots.
One Republican who has voted for Jordan on the first two ballots said a group of them have been planning to peel off gradually in an attempt to show building opposition to his speakership, and “basically drew straws” over who would vote for Jordan initially but then vote against him in subsequent ballots.
Jordan lost four Republicans on the second ballot, and the member said more would follow suit if there is another vote.
Wow, if only they could apply that same effort to governing the effin' country.
Gym’s is now 0-3.
So much losing.
Jim's now dropped out as speaker nominee
He didn't drop out so much as the GOP conference held a vote that said "yes" or "no" to keep Jordan as the nominee, and the majority voted "no". lol
Also, some GOP members were so frustrated that they didn't even stick around for the vote. They got on planes to go home early for the weekend.
"Pro means good, con means bad, that much is clearly seen
If progress means to move forward, what does congress mean?"
A quote from Nipsey Russell I remember hearing as a kid.
While of course Gym is a loathsome creature that we all would love to literally spit on if we were ever near him, it would have been excellent if he was elected Speaker. He has the well documented skeletons in his closet from Ohio State, and he's also an extreme right winger & even worse....an election denier to this day. He would have absolutely torpedoed the R's chances of maintaining the house next year, especially if Trump is the nominee. This is why all these NY State R congressmen in battleground districts opposed Jordan last week.
We actually want some nutjob R as Speaker (unless it somehow can end up being Jeffries...who, to be clear, fucking sucks on his own accord, but is still a Dem), b/c he will doom their chances. Bad enough for them already now that McCarthy is out, as his fundraising abilities were the main reason he got it initially. So in theory, fundraising will go down now that he's out. He will now probably wait out all this drama, serve out his term & quietly go to K Street for his big payday..
Well, they got one:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...nson#xj4y7vzkg
He sounds shitty.....
super shitty.
This is some 20/20 hindsight but probably why we should have tried harder to negotiate with mccarthy
aaaaaaand they found someone way worse than McCarthy. Fuck.