Kevin Mccarthy kicked out as Speaker of house as congress becomes paralyzed

It was a stupid idea from the start...

 

What bunch of morons thought this was a good...


Oh right.

 

They wanted more of an obstructionist Obama McConnell than the one who got snookered into passing the infra bill right before the IRA.

 

Even republican senators think the republican house is a clown show...

 

Meanwhile... it has to be humiliating to be mccarthy... he tried so hard to get the speaker position. Though he appears to have no self respect...

 

If he resigns, does Newsom get to appoint his temporary replacement?

 

former GOP Speaker of the House, Boehner, called his fellow Ohioan, Gym Jordan, a legislative/political terrorist, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former...me-in-congress-of-being-political-terrorists/

both Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson have said that GYM was involved in the planning of the 6 Jan protest in the Capitol.

House Committee records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6
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Democrats Share the Blame for McCarthy’s Fall
The party’s leaders missed a golden opportunity to reach across the aisle and save Congress and the country from dysfunction.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...y-s-fall?srnd=opinion&leadSource=uverify wall

 

OT, once again, if only you bother to do a little research


With Democrats, Kevin McCarthy spent the year sealing his fate

his transgressions include, but not limited to

• struck secret deals with his radical members to gain the gavel. He adopted a package of rules for this Congress designed to empower some of the same far-right members who tried to derail his leadership bid.
• unfairly stripped several House Democrats of their committee assignments without cause.
• made sensitive security footage available to a far-right media personality---TUCKER--as part of a campaign to rewrite the story of the Jan. 6 attack.
• orchestrated a debt ceiling standoff, threatening to crash the economy unless his party received some kind of reward. He also abandoned key elements of the debt ceiling agreement he struck as soon as it was politically convenient for him to do so.
• pushed a historically rare censure resolution against Rep. Adam Schiff of California because the California Democrat told inconvenient truths the GOP didn't want to hear.
• launched an evidence-free impeachment inquiry that’s impossible to take seriously, while also opening the door to impeaching members of the White House cabinet after having said that he wouldn’t.
• needlessly politicized the National Defense Authorization Act, by attaching poison pill amendments on culture war issues like abortion
• endorsed a ludicrous effort to “expunge” Donald Trump’s impeachment.

 

God forbid McConnell helps getting something passed that Trump kept on having "weeks" about.

 

I love how it's the Democrats responsiblity to save the country from REpublican disfunction.

Howabout this for an idea. Next election get the Democrats a majority and then they will save the country from Republican dysfunction.

 

McCarthy was 1-vote away from getting booted. It wouldn't surprise me if M. Bloomberg already penned the op/ed blame this on the Dems when it finally happened.

By keeping McCarthy alive, you get all the worst of McCarthy and none of the best of "bipartisanship".

Americans already hate how the economy is being handled. A shakeup from a possible shutdown would serve useful for the Dems, if only to point out that they really are trying to govern without gimmicks.

Bloomberg does not understand how these insurrectionist MAGA voters think, and they're expanding as long as the middle class shrinks and billionaires like Bloomberg exploit the government for their own whims and means.

 

Which is exactly why they're fine siting back and watching the GOP burn to the ground. The House Dems were under absolutely no obligation to help McCarthy...especially with how he went back on his word so many times. They know that the next fire breathing moron that gets elected to Speaker will likely suffer the same fate...all while their ultra maga plans go up in flames because absolutely none of it will get through the Dem-led Senate. All of those districts that are in play are watching closely and see what happens when you allow the idiots to run the asylum.

 

So the argument is that democrats should have saved McCarthy despite him going back on deals he had agreed with democrats? (i.e. negotiation with WH regarding funding).

Democrats should help a guy that negotiated with them in bad faith? Lets ignore that he badmouth them on television after current deal passed.

 

I mean, if I'm Republicans I try and blame it on Dems too. Where's the downside for them when truth isn't intrinsicaly valuable?

The type of people who will buy it already feel deep down inside that the Dems must somehow be at fault. A good grifter tells the marks exactly what they want to hear.

Everybody else is already too cynical to be shocked. Literally no downside because everybody not fooled already understands exactly who the accusers are.

 

You could tell the base that the sky was purple and they would buy it hook, line and sinker so your right, there is no downside..........I still don't get the jedi mind tricks on the maga base but I stopped trying to figure them out

 

With things like the debt ceiling and the CR Republican does dysfunction does affect all of us. That doesn't mean that the Democrats should've saved McCarthy. If 10 Democrats voted for McCarthy or just present. That likely means several more Republicans defect from him. So then should 20 - 30 Democrats vote for him? Either McCarthy becomes completely dependent on Democrats and loses the trust of his own caucus or Democrats have kept in power who they can't trust at all.

Unless the Republicans won't to surrender the majority it's very unlikely the Democrats could save McCarthy.

 

Dumbest thing from Os?
Not preposterous enough
Needs more Turley Law

 

In the vacuum of leadership in the current House of Representatives...

 

Trump's hold on that party is pathological.

For 8 years he led them down a path of conspiracy theories, lies, and hateful rhetoric. They took a bended knee, and pledged loyalty to the GOP’s orange god, and maintained that stance even after the insurrection. It's sickening.

McCarthy, and many other Republicans over the past eight years, realised that their willingness to support Trump and the extremist forces within the party that have rallied around him were the only way not to get ousted and blackballed. Ted Cruz did such an about face after Trump won the election that it was a prime example of pure ass kissing at its finest. McCarthy made his deal with the devil, only to be burned by the political forces he’d empowered. He, and the other less right wing Republicans should have seen it coming. Their stupidity and cowardly behavior is pathetic.