I am busting a gut. By the time this auto-de-fé is over, I might even feel sorry for McCarthy.¹
¹No I won't.
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I am busting a gut. By the time this auto-de-fé is over, I might even feel sorry for McCarthy.¹
¹No I won't.
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The fact that trump came explictly on McCarthy side and it didn't help makes it even better.
...and a 5th time - so much losing!
But he didn't leak any vote from thr fourth, which would probably encourage him to continue trying.
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An anti-government caucus can't govern. No surprise but very funny.
What a day for an auto-da-fe!
The continuing spectacle of 5% of the house saying they, and they alone, can fix things, and the remaining 95% should just shut up and get out of the way.
Nice as it is to see their party in full public disarray, my fear is that the fanatics will eventually succeed in shutting down the government again & not care about the destruction they leave in their wake, like the SCOTUS member declaring that they do not take into consideration the effects of their rulings when making those decisions.
And he's losing the fifth vote now too.....
Laugh because the alternative is to cry? I have no respect for McCarthy, but have no idea how this soup opera will play out.
If we end up with a non-insane House, great--but still very unlikely....
'soup opera'
Gazpacho, like the police, a dish best served cold.
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[enter stage right duck] YOICKS and AWAY!
[$m@ck]
While I do get some smiles from the other 'team' flubbing things up, I also feel concern. The House must pass legislation. The divided the GOP seems, the more empowered the extremes of the party will likely feel.
A GOP in charge of the House, with an empowered extreme, is not an outcome I desire.
"A GOP in charge of the House, with an empowered extreme, is not an outcome I desire."
This was going to happen anyway. In no universe was there ever going to be a GOP-led government that didn't have empowered extremists running it in the Years of Our Lord 2023-2024.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez signals that she'll support a 'compromise candidate' for Speaker of the House,
https://www.rawstory.com/aoc-compromise-candidate/
Just because this kind of compromise sounds plausible probably sinks it right out of the gate. Can you imagine them agreeing to anything when doing that would compromise any new Speaker into functional irrelevance?
Problem is, it sounds as if McCarthy has probably already promised every chairmanship he can. Surprised me that the person who approached AOC about this was Gosar, he of the animation showing him taking aim at AOC.
Who could he have had in mind?
yeah, i can't imagine enough GOP votes would agree to giving dems a committee chair. or giving us anything that would make it worthwhile to help them elect a speaker. let them infight and fracture their caucus.
An irrelevant Speaker is a feature, not a bug for the Republican right wing - they had far better leaders in Boehner and even Ryan, than McCarthy could ever be, so the nutjobs made sure to drive them both out.
Someone remind me again about how coldly competent and Grown Up the Republicans are. I'm forgetting how that goes.