Failing to elect party leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker of the House, Republicans adjourned in disarray Tuesday night, ending a raucous first day of the new Congress but hoping to somehow regroup on Wednesday from his historic defeat.
The abrupt end to a long, messy Day One showed there is no easy way ahead for McCarthy who promised to fight to the finish to claim the gavel despite opposition from the chamber’s most conservative members. Needing 218 votes in the full House, McCarthy got just 203 in two rounds — less even than Democrat Hakeem Jeffries in the GOP-controlled chamber — and fared even worse with 202 in round three.
The question is how much of his soul McCarthy will have to trade away to get the job. He's already given away his balls to the QAnon wing of his party.
What could be interesting is if a number of Republicans decide to end this shit show and vote for Jeffries.
We'll see.
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ReplyDeleteIs this the start of the Republican Party going to war with itself? Can the Democrats not step on anything sensitive with golf shoes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1pahozFjK0
He doesn't have anything to negotiate with the members of his caucus whose only real demand is that he not be speaker.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
On the bonus fun front, if the R’s slip up and the D’s find themselves with a majority on the floor, Jeffries could become Speaker…
ReplyDeleteThanks Kevin! I won all my bets!
ReplyDeleteI vote for Jefferis..
ReplyDeleteA win there would be the most total fail for the RQP.
The likely case is they get a sock puppet from within.
Nearly as good save for it would mean the congress is
non functional but easily assigned as caused by the RQP.
Eck!
that asshole has noooooooo pride..
ReplyDeleteBest klown show ever. Only the best people,.. I've heard less BS at a high school model UN...and all said with such earnestness, such high-minded protestation of patriotism and devotion to Truth, Justice and Total Claptrap. While managing to proclaim that Washington. Is. Broken.....without a scintilla of comprehension that they broke it. Proof by affirmation run rampant and reality lost in the ditch miles and miles back.
ReplyDeleteThe House GOP couldn't fix a flat tire.
Excellent article on Kevin McCarthy...
ReplyDeletehttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/kevin-mccarthy-is-only-barely-better-than-his-gop-enemies.html
Nickel summary: McC is slightly left of Genghis Khan, the Freedumb Caucus well the the right and very few in the GOP House within shouting distance of Eisenhower. Anyone in bed with them will get a barbed wire enema.