If McCarthy brought up a bill that could pass the Senate and keep the government running, the self-styled "Freedom Caucus" would move to sack him as Speaker. He'd still be a congressman, but he wouldn't make as much money and he couldn't whistle up an Air Force Gulfstream to fly back to California on weekends. And he'd have to move into a less-posh office.
For the good of the country, a bunch of privates, led by a corporal or a sergeant, will storm a building under enemy fire. Some of them might be killed or lose limbs. Pilots fighting forest fires fly low in horrible conditions to drop fire retardant. Fire crews will jump out of airplanes to fight such fires in remote country. Some of those guys pay with their lives.
But Little Kev won't risk his fucking leather chair in the House chamber to keep the government running and to pay those put their bodies on the line for us.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
One Thing That is Obvious: We Ask People in the Military and Federal LEOs to Put Their Bodies on the Line, But Kevin McCarthy Won't Risk His Fucking Job.
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What's the Vector Victor? Contract with America, Tea Party and Freedom Caucus?
ReplyDeleteImus had a go at Newt and Rush back in the day. This is why America is considered an unreliable partner and South Korean weapons sales are going thru the roof.
South Korea has established itself as a formidable player in the international arms market. In 2022, its arms sales topped $17 billion, more than doubling the record-setting $7.25 billion figure set in the previous year. The recent flurry of arms sales was the culmination of the South Korean government’s 20-year-long effort to build an export-competitive defense industry.
Under the Yoon Suk-yeol government, South Korea has set the ambitious goal to become the world’s fourth largest weapons exporter by 2027. Putting aside the export competitiveness and technical competence needed to achieve such a feat, whether South Korea is prepared for the challenges of being a global arms exporter remains an open question.
https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/is-south-korea-ready-to-be-a-global-pivotal-arms-exporter/#:~:text=South%20Korea%20has%20established%20itself,set%20in%20the%20previous%20year.
This shit be complicated, and the US is going to have to do the tighten up on its arms prices.
They don't even have the votes to oust Kevin and he knows it, so even that part is bullshit.
ReplyDeleteIf they managed to pass a vacate the chair motion on the floor, who would they elect as speaker?
Kevin wants this shit just as much as they do, and his "I have to act like speaker" act is just that, but nobody with two functioning neurons to rub together should believe it.
Won't govern and can't govern are functionally identical.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Its not money or honor he seeks, its power and that chair has
ReplyDeletepotential power. I say potential as those that can get their
people to march in the same direction can exert power.
Eck!
Actually, Doug, it’s that they have the votes to deny him the Speakership without seeking Democratic support. It’s actually an amusing dilemma the Freedumb Caucus pose themselves.
ReplyDelete1) Table a motion to vacate and fail to support the Speaker and the House grinds to a halt.
2) Then either Democrats and moderate Republicans team up to elect a speaker or all the Republicans select a new speaker.
3a) A new speaker (or McCarthy) elected with Democratic votes gets attacked by the Reich-wing.
3b) A new speaker elected with only Republican votes is from the Reich-wing.
4) Nothing gets done, and Congress is paralyzed until the adults decide it’s time to stop playing games and…
5) Freedumb Caucus is reduced to insignificance.
Any action to remove McCarthy will effectively end the Freedumb Caucus and its power…they need the instability and threat.