Watching these idiots fall over themselves to suck off Trump is sad.
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And give up all their supposed values doing so. Can't be the "law and order" party while supporting protecting criminals from consequences; cops were killed as a result of their failed insurrection.
It's been amazing watching them abandon free trade, national security, and capitalist healthcare from their list of values all based around opposition to 'the current thing'.
It's really just so, so pathetic.
What's funny is there is no one that can get enough votes to be speaker. The inmates are running the asylum and doing a terrific job!
There were fifteen votes just to get him seated as Speaker. Go ahead, put him out and start over.
15 rounds of voting. (For a moment, my brain was interpreting that as "had 15 extra votes", but that didn't make sense.)
Isn't it weird how the right did that Qanon thing, pretending to be worried about "groomers", and here we are with Groomer Gaetz making threats and demands of their so-called "Speaker".
Both those dudes in the picture are pieces of shit.
There's no actual requirement that the Speaker be a member of the House. Maybe they should just nominate Trump already. Or Alex Jones.
Maybe Matt Gaetz should nominate Nestor.
Don't give them ideas
IIRC it takes a majority vote of the House to remove him and the Freedom Caucus doesn't have anywhere near the necessary votes to pull it off.
Doesn't matter to a certain extent. They voted how many hundreds of times to get rid of the ACA? Republicans (especially the far right) don't give a shit about actually succeeding - they just want to go home to their districts and show they "stood up" to the anti-Trump Rinos.
I'm just happy that literally every other problem facing Americans have been solved - otherwise this would be a really bad waste of time! /s
Don't you know that all of the real problems facing the country are caused by democrats, illegal aliens, rainbows, drag queens, abortion, books, and wokeness. Attacking the windmills to slay these bogeyman is how you fix everything. /s
The Dems might join the Freedom Caucus. Removing McCarthy as Speaker may be the only thing those two groups can agree on.
What turd is going to replace him though?
Hakeem Jeffries can garner about 212 votes. Just need to win over a few Republicans...
I mean, it sounds crazy, but if a couple republican reps from swing districts went with it, it isn't impossible.
How about
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Mitch McConnell
Let me think about that for a .............
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Broccoli. What?
"agent flounder is totally not having a stroke but will not be taking any further questions at this time thank you"
whisks a.f. away
Huh, hard to imagine when his election as house leader was such a breeze.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.
House Republicans control only a narrow majority, a dynamic that has left McCarthy with little room to maneuver and has given hardline conservatives outsized influence to exert pressure over the speaker.
On Tuesday, Gaetz outlined a series of demands, including calling for passage of individual spending bills and not a short-term stopgap measure to fund the government, as he threatened a push to remove the speaker.
In practical terms, a motion to vacate the chair takes the form of a resolution to remove the speaker by declaring the speakership to be vacant.
If a member introduces a resolution, but does not announce it from the floor, that would not force a vote or have any immediate impact – making it more of a symbolic threat or warning shot to the speaker.
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That's shocking /s