The House of Representatives is in current session to debate and confirm the new House rules package. The rules were a point of contention for some conservative House members, who initially refused to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker until the California Republican made concessions in order to win the gavel. [Livestream Video Below]
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Will Joe Biden be assaulting children tonight like he does at most C-SPAN events?
Yikes!!!!
I would bet there was a deal made between these two.
At the least, she gets her choice of committee assignments.
Something happened, besides her drinking the koolaid!!! Maybe someone is wearing a very realistic face mask?? After reading this:
From the article:
“…“Do you believe that Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president?” Kurtz said.
“Of course, Joe Biden is the president. That’s always a silly question,” she said.
“I’m not trying to be silly. I was trying to just clarify,” he said….”
WT???
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/raising-eyebrows-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-joe-biden-legitimately-elected-president-distances-qanon-video/
Reread her answer. She said “of course Joe Biden is president…” Legitimate or not, he IS president. No way around that unfortunately. Kurtz was setting her up, and she avoided the trap. Save your ire for Kurtz.
The swamp is out to get her.
I’m guessing they got something straight between them, yes.
Yer killin’ it, Sike!
Ya think they’re having a love affair?
Body Language Ghost says yes or very soon
I just threw up a little …..
Do we need to know that?
no
“Rugburn”. 🤣🤣🤣
What the ……
What have I missed? Is that her stripper name? Her secret Twitter handle? BLE alludes to MTG’s sexual escapades, then it’s all about “Rugburn!”
I dunno the dirty details, but that’s the nickname that the Body Language narrator uses for MTG…..
Apparently she was having an affair with a guy Craig Ivey who was a gym instructor and tantric sex guru. Hubby found out, detailed in divorce filing.
Kumala gets that a lot.
Get out of the gutter.
That was gross, she is like a groveling starry eyed whore chasing a rock star. The best part was the guy behind Kevin, his facial expressions are hilarious.
Stop being so rude. This is not a saloon!
Maybe she is dragging him to the right.
Luntz can’t be happy.
He banged Renee Elmers right out of Congress
And was in line for speaker. Instead we got Paul Ryno.
The two oldest professions in the world.
Yep
You know your getting old when you have to edit one word.
-:)…It doesn’t get any better from here on out.
But only one is honest.
AHAHAHHAHAHAAHA! That is snort’n funny. Thx for the laugh.
To be fair, you need to reconcile why President Trump chose to use MGT to make at least one of those key phone calls?
I recommend re-reading the chapter in the Art of War on the use of spies before jumping to conclusions.
If you did want MGT spying on McCarthy, would you write the narrative as them just being fellow gym rats or sd something, or would you write it into a narrative people are always looking for in any event?
I am not drawing any conclusions just yet. Let’s see where this ends up in terms of McCarthy behavior.
Shes not a good actress
I think you have it right… I think the whole bunch were playing their parts as the Conductor.. DJT…directed the play…🤣🤣👍
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Charlie Kirk interviewed MTG today where she describes the PT phone call.
The MTG interview begins around 1:37, then at about 1:45, she describes the exchange w Rosendale.
MTG called PT to ask for his help after the 14th ballot failed. She initiated the call and Rosendale was furious with her.
But I don’t want to be a pirate.
Wear the shirt.
Kevin’s Pillsbury dough boy Gruntz, has to be worried he’s gonna lose his greasing and stuffing to this homewrecker, MTG
😳
GP is now saying MTG has fully gone to the dark side and accepted Slo Joe as a “legitimately elected” POTUS
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/raising-eyebrows-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-joe-biden-legitimately-elected-president-distances-qanon-video/
Sorry but it’s Boebert you should be complaining about. Fake MAGA, publicly tried to shame Trump and tell him what to do after he helped her win (just barely!) her election. She’s worse than DeSantis, total ingrate, self-appointed Queen of MAGA now.
MTG sided with Trump. She has my respect.
I’m tempted to make an image of Boebert with a MAGA crown and calling herself “America’s Representative”. I won’t forgive her for turning on Trump.
You should just let Trump decide who his enemies and allies are – neither of which need be friends or trustworthy.
MTG always struck me as a grifter so her heel face turn doesn’t surprise me.
I don’t like this piling on of MTG. Here’s why:
I read on twit that SD mentioned that MTG was/is? sleeping with Kev and watching her, I started to believe it but I also learned something from SD. And that’s not to take the first impression as fact (even if it came from SD 😬 ).
SD maybe a day(?) later re/tweeted a CSpan video panning directly to a giddy MTG as Kevin was making I believe his first speech after elected speaker. The CSpan panned to MTG, now why so obvious? Was that to help us believe something that just might not be real? It just made me stop and think.
Ding ding ding.
Sometimes when the optics are that in your face, they are there for a reason.
Who is controlling the cameras? Why that particular focus frame?
It isn’t random. We are being fed a narrative.
Okay by me, as long as I can see it. It is the narratives we can’t see but buy anyways that are the most dangerous.
Anything good happening? I’m unable to watch right now.
Dems arguing that the 1 person motion to vacate makes the house useless. Lol.
Lol, thank you @Tiff!
They are already useless!
Might as well make the change to see if it improves a non-functioning body!
weren’t they already useless?
The House is already useless. One person is all it takes to notice it.
Couldn’t watch any longer. The Dem’s were making me wonder where they come up with their statistics. So now I’m having my nails pulled out and I’m better.
Not watching. Period.
This is where everyone finds out just what McCarthy’s word is worth.
Same as before… Nothing!
The “20” better examine VERY carefully, anything this guy says, or puts in writing…. magnifying glasses ON!
The dozen or so Nancy Mace types will sabotage the Rules and McCarthy will have clean hands.
Precisely. With plenty of ammunition left if he gets too far out of the agreed-to line.
Don’t get your hopes up. Kevin McCarthy has the same nearly-omnipotent power that Nancy Pelosi once wielded, and “Swamp Rats, above all, do not yield Power.”
And, please don’t kid yourself. No matter what color button this man chooses to wear upon his lapel, he’s nothing more than a thoroughly-seasoned Swamp Rat.
Seasoned with dung I say
just getting rid of proxy voting, allowing amendments, and debate has returned MOST power back to the individual congresscritters
I agree.. it has to start with that first step..looking better to me 😀👍..
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If tonight’s events turn out differently than what my above post predicted, then I will be the first to buy everyone on this forum a … virtual … beer. 🍺
(Unfortunately, since it will be virtual … heh …)
I’ll drink a real one for ya
“ Free beer tommorrow “ used to be put on billboards by Rotten Ralph’s pub.
I’ll take a sweet ice tea! This southern girl drinks sweet ice tea with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 😜
His grin looked somewhat like Pelosi’s. Weird!
Same demon, new possession? Wish I were kidding.
He also has her beady drug induced looking eyes.
It’s the botox.
how big is HIS gavel?
Between the beginning of this and last week’s speaker contest I have concluded that I can’t stand smarmy people.
A few minutes ago checked twitter feeds of Gaetz, Boebert, Mcarthy and others.
Four hours ago Scalise’s twitter account shared a reporter quoting him as saying he believed the deal would pass.
Nancy Mace has been on twitter busy attacking Gaetz with personal smears. Same old. She is on the fence on her vote.
Tony Gonzales has said he is a definite no.
218 votes needed to pass.
Nancy Mace is a typical RINO. She has repeatedly fallen back on the fact that she was raped in the past. She uses it as cover and as a means to “qualify” herself as being a “survivor.” She is a total hack.
It was probably date rape, where the she woke up with a raging hangover and inside out underwear (laying next to Bill, a guy she wouldn’t *kiss* unless she was blackout drunk). She begins telling everyone she sees for the next few days that Bill raped her. She’d be so embarrassed if people knew she willingly slept with the guy.
Also constantly reminding us here is SC she was the first female to graduate the citadel.
Shes immensely insecure and just wants to be fawned over. She doesn’t like her constituents and doesnt bother with us. The media slathering and DC cocktail parties is the life for her.
That’s politics. They too are angling for a promise of something.
It seems so far the Dems are controlling the floor like always
Here comes the block strategy………..
Assign a US Attorney to investigate these “new” Hunter documents to keep Jordan and his team from investigating any Hunter documents.
Same ole crap
https://citizenfreepress.com/uncategorized/breaking-classified-documents-from-vp-era-found-in-bidens-private-office/
Sure, put the Untrustables in charge. 🤨
Just from that headline alone you wonder where the massive team of FIB agents are in their planning on raiding his office, and the hordes of leftists squealing over how our nation is in peril.
In recess till 6:30 tonight. What a waste.
I heard somewhere today that a few Repubs are concerned about the “rules package” because of the part about requiring a 72-hour period before voting on any budget bill. Apparently the SPECIFIC part of the budget they’re worried about is defense spending. Huh? So they think there should be an exception to such a rule where defense spending is concerned? Waiting 72 hours is some kind of national security issue? How sick is that?! With Trump in charge, the Rep Party had managed to lose a bit of the “warmonger” image they had had for decades. But now apparently they want to return to that. (No idea if this is REALLY gonna be a sticking point… but I wanted to throw it out there just in case.)
They sneak all kinds of things into the NDAA that have nothing to do with defense.
Shrimp on a treadmill?
I do prefer mine swimming in cocktail sauce!
“So they think there should be an exception to such a rule where defense spending is concerned?”
We have no defense spending..
See the wide open southern border with millions of nation invaders pouring across unmolested.
Our so-called Defense Department exists only to invade other countries, not defend our own, and to enrich themselves.
The DOD is the biggest ripoff of all time. Talk about not earning a paycheck.
I’m pretty sure I have seen that “defense spending ” erecting a camera above every intersection stoplight in the US over the last 6 years.
Somebody made a ton of $$$$ constructing our open air prison. Probably family members of the usual suspects.
‘Apparently the SPECIFIC part of the budget they’re worried about is defense spending.’ – jello333
For years, the Defense Department has been unable to pass an audit – trillions are uncounted and unaccountable.
Throwing more money into this cesspit is unconscionable.
Nothing has changed since WW I, when defense contractors were accurately labeled as ‘war babies,’ serving the accurately-named War Department.
Now the Defense Department can’t even defend the United States, as vividly proven on 9/11, and still being proven on the southern border today.
But still they (and corrupt, kickback-feeding RINOs) want unlimited funding? Sorry, that does not compute.
Defense spending, the way they pocket money….
uh oh…..waiting for the raid to happen.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-classified-documents-from-vp-era-found-in-bidens-private-office/
We Got Him Now!
hhahahah!!
I saw a Dem vote flip from Yes to No (seriously). Must have been Dominion or the AP fixing it.
Happens all the time with this electronic voting
Sounds like a Dem got his or her wrist slapped. AOC said she liked some of the concessions, like the 72 hours rule, but doubt she’d dare vote yes.
Wondering if all members are allowed to change their vote during some window, perhaps while voting is still taking place?
Who squeezed McC’s jimmies harder MTG or the Patriots?
Luntz, by far!
What is a motion to commit?
House Resolution 5 just passed what ever that is. I wish Cspan would put up a description
Changes
So the entire rules package passed? If so, that is great
It’s like herding cats
Why the debate. Vote for the rules change as agreed to or prepare for Brazil.
So, Kevin is following Pelousi. Definitely not a milquetoast predecessor. It is true that she was very strong-willed and pretty vengeful to her opponents giving no quarter. Kevin, must follow that. Regardless of his swampiness ties, as Pelousi’s opposite number one would assume he would be as strong-willed to his opponents as she was to note a counter balance. Otherwise, he is just a pansy. Will he choose to be a man and at least play even with his female predecessor or be labeled a pansy? And not to sound chauvinistic, but be bested politically by a woman. I would think his ego would not allow that.
Well………….that’s a good thing.
No more omnibus bills for 2 years. And more….
Trump keeps saying nice generalities about Kev. Will Trump ever articulate his support for the specific action items the brave 20 worked for? Trump supporters I know in IRL want to hear this.
Give it a rest, let the dust settle…
Trump was 1 million times more specific in his 4 years in office. You have things backwards.
Looks like it passed with five dems not voting and eleven gop. Who are the eleven and why did they not vote?
The Hill says the rules packaged passed 220 to 212 with Tony Gonzales of Texas voting no.
Yep I was looking at a screen on GatewayPundit which said it passed but totals were not updated apparently. I was just happy it passed.
The crap rep from my district!!! 😡🤬👿👿🤮
UPDATE: GOP-Controlled House Passes New Rules Package in First Major Test for Speaker McCarthy 211 to 205
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/live-stream-video-gop-controlled-house-vote-new-rules-package/
9 percent of the 222 GOP were able to deliver a strong win for MAGA. 20 people with strategy and courage. Thank you.
I can’t believe it! It passed!
Thank you Jesus for answered prays.
I know a lot of us was calling our reps and praying.
Indeed. Gaetz and his little band of Rebels accomplished something special. He impressed me.
And PDJT looks good, and dodged what could have been a disaster, and now reinforces his role as king maker.
A long, long way to go. But this was a win-win-win. The last one for America, which desperately needed one lately.
Seems like the first significant win in 720 days! Praise the Lord!
The left, the globalists want us to give up, to accept that there’s no point in even trying to stand up to them.
Bet they’re unhappy tonight. 20 people returned the running of the House to the pre-Uniparty days. 15 rounds.
Standing up is not pointless. A very few can sometimes move mountains. Chew on that WEF!
“Standing up is not pointless.”
Beats the alternative.
Farnoush Amiri
@FarnoushAmiri
McCARTHY confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees they’d previously served: intel/foreign affairs.
“Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector. I’m not going to give him a government security clearance. Schiff has lied to the American public…”
7:20 PM · Jan 9, 2023
At last. Well done Gang of 20. I give McCarthy no props.
Give your opponent a golden bridge to retreat on.
“Swalwell can’t get a security clearance and I don’t want any Republicans stuck in a closed committee room with him”.
Pfizer gives 1 million to Kentucky GOP to expand headqtrs. The filth and dirt of bribes and pay offs gets overwhelming.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/01/09/pfizer-gives-1-million-to-republican-party-of-kentucky-to-expand-its-headquarters/
Holman rule passed!!!!!!!!
In Dec MTG said McCarthy had agreed to use the Holman rule to do two things. Defind the 87,000 IRS agents and to Defund the Special Counsel investigating President Trump. Looks like the Holman Rule made it into the rules package.
I can think of a lot of other uses for the Holman rule too — defund the FBI — defund the Education Dept — defund the intelligence agencies —– But I’ll happily take the defunding of the Special Counsel against PDJT and the IRS agents as a start 🙂
From the Hill:
The rules package also reinstates the Holman Rule, which gives members the ability to propose amendments for appropriations bills that would decrease the salaries of specific federal workers, or funding for particular programs, to $1, essentially defunding them.
https://thehill.com/homenews/3806105-house-republicans-pass-rules-package-following-speaker-fight/
Wouldn’t any amendments to prior spending bills still have to be agreed to by the Senate and signed by JoeBama?
True, any new bill needs the Senate and the White House —but they need the House to vote its agreement. The power of the 118 Congress rests in the power of no. Not unless X amendment is accepted.
We have a slim majority, so the question is whether McCarthy can and will herd cats, and whether the 20 can strategically encourage McCarthy to follow thru. They got the impossible done this past week. So I’m willing to be open to the possibility a few more good outcomes in the next two years.
To clarify, imo the House like you say is unlikely to pass new bills of its own without Senate and WH going along.
But they may be able to force amendements onto bills put forward by the Senate. The big point of leverage comes in the next government funding bill between now and September.
Well, I found this…
If the President were presented with H.R. 23 — or any other bill that enables the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations to cheat on their taxes, while honest and hard-working Americans are left to pay the tab — he would veto it,” it added.
Such a bill, should it pass the House, would almost certainly never survive the Democratic-controlled Senate to reach Biden’s desk.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-issues-first-veto-threat-of-new-congress-against-republican-irs-bill/ar-AA169riL
The problem is the reconciliation process that will drop our stuff at which time our side will say ‘we tried’ and then give up.
Many of you are crediting the holdouts for this rules package. But McCarthy is still the Speaker. What makes you think things would be so much different had the holdouts simply voted for McCarthy in, say, round 5?
You’re going to miss Hannity. Better hurry.
😂😂😂 that’s funny!
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Kudos to you for a response that made us laugh. My own response would have gotten me banned.
Agreed. I was thinking of a line from Shawshank where he asks, How can you be so obtuse?
Well played.
McCarthy wanted to keep Nancy’s rules in place which would have given almost unlimited power.
The job would have been only half done. Maybe a little more, but that’s it.
The [15] rounds had significance, for those paying attention.
QED
It’s a start…
If you had watched the 15 rounds or followed on online threads, you would have seen/heard McCarthy absolutely refused each and every requested rule change. Even after losing round after round well into the voting. He kept saying no, absolutely not.
It was not until late rounds, maybe after 12-13 rounds that he even budged at all. And not until he was nearing the point of being asked to step aside that he slowly began to open to negotiate.
He does whatever he wants.
You think McCarthy didn’t make any concessions after Round 5? You really think there were no further concessions from McCarthy between Round 5 and Round 15?
You should change your handle from “fka Serena” to “fna fna Serena”.
Andy Biggs gives some explanation of the rules that passed:
https://truthsocial.com/users/repandybiggsaz/statuses/109661858828611247
Wow, I must say I’m a bit surprised. I liked what the holdouts did last week, especially their insistence on this rules package. But I felt the same as most of us here did: Once McCarthy was elected, there was no guarantee the rules package would pass, regardless of his promises. But looks like I was wrong. And I hate to give ANY credit to Kevin, but it seems to me that he must have PUSHED for this to pass. So if you combine the Rules passage, and what we’ve heard so far as to what subcommittees will be formed and who will be on them… well, I’m liking the looks of this so far. Not getting TOO excited, since of course we’ve been let down countless times before with all the tick tock stuff and the backstabbing.
Oh, and one thing that also gives me some “hope” ( 😀 ) is that Pirate Dan has apparently LOST his bid to chair one of the big committees if I heard right.
Have to admit… it’s a better start than I would have expected as well. Time will tell if they can really accomplish something fruitful. Crazy that we’re celebrating these jokers actually doing what they’ve been hired to do…but these are the times we live in…
Here’s a 9 minute deeper dive into exactly what the MAGA 20 got by Our President’s Former OMB Director Russ Vought: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/08/russ-vought-explains-the-benefits-gained-by-20-house-republicans-who-battled-over-400-uniparty-members/ I have to say I’m cautiously optimistic at this point. I don’t believe that Trump would have supported McCarthy like he did if he wasn’t pretty confident that McCarthy would come through. Who knows, McCarthy could even be a sleeper or, worst case, White Hat controlled….
“We’ve been let down countless times before by all the tick tick stuff”
Are you referring to the CTH?
You won’t find many/any tick tockers here…
Umm…. lemme check my 8-ball. Hmm… my sources say NO. 🙂
What are you referring to?
I’m repeating this question, in light of the fact that someone just said (paraphrasing) “let’s get this passed, and get the Senate and the President to agree”
booger 71
January 9, 2023 7:57 pm
Wouldn’t any amendments to prior spending bills still have to be agreed to by the Senate and signed by JoeBama?
Well, I found this…
If the President were presented with H.R. 23 — or any other bill that enables the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations to cheat on their taxes, while honest and hard-working Americans are left to pay the tab — he would veto it,” it added.
Such a bill, should it pass the House, would almost certainly never survive the Democratic-controlled Senate to reach Biden’s desk.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-issues-first-veto-threat-of-new-congress-against-republican-irs-bill/ar-AA169riL
And we’re not paying the tab with the trillions they passed a couple of weeks ago and over the last couple of years?
I’ve been listening to the debate on repealing the 87,000 new irs agents.
It is clear that the dems are 🦇💩🤡.
They repetitively say thst average people pay their share, but corporations don’t pay their fair share of taxes because they “cheat” on their taxes. Trump’s name came up a couple of times, too.
They fail to address the role that legal tax write offs in the law play that were passed by congress.
appropriations bills should have a public reading period of 1 month per each billion dollar$ of graft included in each shat sandwich.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Milton Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
Nothing wrong with MTG, she cares for the USA.
I told you a month ago Sundance that Trump would have the HOUSE, he got Matt Geatz together with Russ Voight, former OMB Director under Trump, last summer and they hammered out the plan for a balanced budget and capping the debt ceiling! He said one thing publicly supporting McCarthy while knee capping him behind the scenes and making him a weakling as Speaker that can be controlled by the Freedom Caucus! Next is the RNC, he says one thing regarding Ronna, all the while plotting her demise! He is pushing McConnell into an isolated and very, very tight corner!😁