Pressure mounting, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty for a third day Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed anew in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel.
McCarthy lost a seventh round and was gaining no ground in an eighth. With his supporters and foes seemingly stalemated, feelings of both boredom and desperation seemed increasingly evident, with no end in sight.
Basically, 1/11th of the GOP Congressmen are driving this bus. So far, McCarthy has offered up enough to the crazies that he would be Speaker-in-Name-Only. Any one of them could cut him off at the knees if they so choose.
It would not be a suprise if, sooner or later, the others do something to stop it. But probably not, as they don't have the courage to do more than to whine anonymously to the press.
ETA: Eleven failed votes for McCarthy, so far. MAGAfreude, as Paul Krugman puts it.
The MAGA Klown Kar rolls on.
Basically, nineteen people are holding three hundred million plus hostage.
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Despite all the insanity, what the right has wanted all through my lifetime is to prove that government doesn't work. They progressively elect worse and worse people in order to prove government doest work. I really hope we can arrest and or outvote enough of those complicit in the January 6th sedition to get a chance to fix things .
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There are more than five "absolutely never Kevin" votes in the GOP conference, and he can only afford to lose four, so why is he still up there? I mean, I know why THEY are there, to stop government in its tracks, like they always say they want to.
ReplyDeleteWe won't be able to fix this until we un-gerrymander the whole damn country. They are right now demonstrating that a dozen or so nutballs answering only to meticulously selected electorates can indeed stop the US government from functioning.
If they can't even elect their own leader, from there own party, do we really expect them to be able to pass legislation when it must pass? That is, after all, what we're paying them $174,000 a year to do.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
They just got tired of rewriting like "Democrats are the racists, we freed the slaves". The want to reenact parts like the reenactment of the last time the Capitol was attacked in 1814 and now how dysfunctional and messed up the Republicans were in 1923 with their selecting a Speaker. The more they try to change their tune, the more they play the same. They do like changing sides party wise when they do Civil War reenactments too.
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