The House of Representatives failed to elect a House Speaker through three rounds of voting. Approximately 20 members of the Republican conference will not vote for Kevin McCarthy, as a result there is a stalemate. The Republican caucus requested adjournment until noon tomorrow, Wednesday January 4th.
Essentially Kevin McCarthy needs to: (1) step aside and accept he will not be Speaker, or (2) continue the House voting in futility, or (3) find a way to convince the Republican holdouts to support him.
“They’re just not into you Kevin”…
This has happened before, just not in the modern political era. The holdouts want Jim Jordan to accept the Speaker position.
Don’t get defrosted, worried or overly attached to any outcome. This is simply the way our system was designed.
Tony Perkins
@tperkins
Do not assume the conflict happening now on Capitol Hill is all political. Course correction almost always brings conflict. After years of consolidated power in the hands of a few, the GOP is wrestling over the proper balance – this is a good thing.
1:11 PM · Jan 3, 2023
#3 will happen and then all you purists will find out just how easy it was to buy everyones votes.
Apparently not easy enough to do in three bites of the apple.
It would help if McCarthy could even pretend to fight for conservative principles. If he can’t even muster a good act to fool us, whose fault is that?
What is meant by “conservative principles”?
Republicans =/= A Borg.
Not all Republicans identify as “conservative”. Those who do identify as ” conservative” do NOT agree with other “conservatives”.
Labels are often used to elicit a knee jerk reaction rather than inform.
Labels often are used to keep people divided into enemy camps instead of situation ally finding common ground.
How about America First then. That concept should NOT be a left/right thing. It’s the ONLY thing
There’s only one meaning of conservative, opposite of liberal. You add nuance at your own risk
ridiculous, useless labels. Try looking at policies, objectives and goals.
Consider me a knee jerk reaction
This will be 2years of noise
When was the last time we pissed off everybody in Congress an the media.
2016
Among many failings, McCarthy wants only to play with his political compadres. Couldn’t care a whit about convincing the American public that he is not Mich McConnell.
For a brief time I got into futures, in that time I realized “we” the people are nothing. There is no backbone, there is no support. The markets and companies determine everything we are told to enjoy the show. Most comply few do not. If they are familiar with the process of markets and such they rebel to get a place at the table. If they are not familiar it usually is a true desire to have a system that is not corrupt. The system is so huge it’s pointless without an act of God.
How much is too much before we take it all back?
I’d say if it were left to die, like a field or camp abandoned, we would be hard pressed to even come up with a plan to take control without a fight much less with a fight. nobody wants it and the population would scream for “the way it was”.
We are so far removed from freedom and responsibility that we will never come back willingly.
Yes, the purists will be totally shocked that politicians in DC are traitorous scumbags. But hey, the people who are willing to negotiate away everything they stand for and then get screwed even harder by the RINOs will be the big winners then I guess.
Healthy politics, like all real life interactions, involves negotiation and compromise.
Unless one lives in a totalitarian regime.
We can’t get screwed more than losing our vote.
What did McCarthy do about that?
????!?!!!!!
Or #4? Are Uniparty pols so desperate to cling to power, and so contemptuos of the base, that they will have 20 Dems “cross the aisle” to give McCarthy the Speakership?
Bribes won’t work, on the 20; they were told in this mornings behind closed door conference, that ANY who voted against McCarthy, would be stripped of any committee chairs; thats not a threat you can take back, and McCarthy has no credibility.
I think he better pack his shi,….stuff and get OUT of the new Speakers office, unless he is prepared to go with#4.
And #4 is political suicide for all involved, including McCarthy.
Tend to agree with this. How many times are we going to be left at the altar and be made fools of?
or you could have a few RINO’s vote for House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The GOP is that screwed up!
Scenario: a few RINOs agree to vote for Jeffries, just to put fear into the hold outs. The guarantee from the commiecrats is that it’s just to be able to put blame on the holdouts for allowing a dem to be elected and Jeffries will fall short. Instead, they hide the real count and Jeffries is elected. This would not surprise me at all.
Purists??????
To buy votes of the Conservatives will mean McCarthy will have to promise to do things he is not likely to do on his own, like impeach Biden. I’m all for that.
The modern system will assume power with RINO dominion achieved by McCarthy with 700+ votes. Election deniers will be censured.
Holy cow. I can’t copy the letter but Gaetz is on fire. Here is the link with the letter:
Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
The Speaker of the House Office in the Capitol is currently being occupied by Kevin McCarthy.
Kevin McCarthy is not the Speaker of the House. He lost 3 consecutive votes today.
I’m demanding answers from the Architect of the Capitol.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1610466327726104577
RUTHLESS
maybe Rep Gaetz IS CONFIDENT in the HOUSE SEAT from FL-1 and WHAT His CONSTITUENTS WANT ?
Gaetz won re-election 68% to 32%.
haha. Calls him a “squatter”. True!
Never heard of the Architect of the Capitol and what his duties/roles may be.
Could this be construed as an insurrection?????
leave architects out of this, please.
all we do is make buildings.
” the Architect of the Capitol ” sounds better than ” the Front Desk Agent ” or ” Dorm President “
Dorm president. Like that. Or R A.
Architect of the Capitol – Oh… You mean like AOC ! Who’da thunk it???
The Architect needs to cover storm damage by welding a 1/4″ steel plate over the Speaker’s door to keep squatters and criminal elements out.
I’ve heard alcoholics and druggies tend to loiter there even in the best of times…
Or “Desk Clerk.”
Thank you.
Kevin McCarthy, Squatter of the House
Well, we know the Republicans won’t elect a Democrat–but only because that would be too honest.
RepScottPerry
@RepScottPerry
WHY do Members have trust issues with
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy? Every major budget bill that passed under his leadership of the last GOP-controlled House was passed with more D than R support, for starters.
***
Horowitz: McCarthy passed budget bills with Dem support during Trump years
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-mccarthy-passed-budget-bills-with-dem-support-during-trump-years
Now if I was Jim Jordan and wanted to someday be POTUS, I’d have a hidden deal with a lot of folks where I back McCarthy (was there ever a better name for such a sleeze ball RINO?) publicly then come in and agree to be the replacement speaker to avoid a Dem House coup. Looks like he’s a RINO publicly, then snakes them the way they snake us.
That’s how I’d play it if I was JJ…
The way I see it is backing McCarthy keeps you off the party death list – even while you know he doesn’t have the votes. You can shift your vote later and hopefully he does.
This sounds like the strategy of a team that actually anticipates winning. And this group has watched what happened with Cantor, Boehner, Ryan. I don’t think they’re winging this. I think they’ve thought it through.
The smart play is for your preferred consensus candidate NOT to be against McCarthy from the beginning. That would be disqualifying for many people you need. In fact, having part of your minority faction as your candidate would telegraph you don’t hope to win. So this was the smart way to present/posture Jordan, even if they don’t succeed.
Speaker is an unenviable job – at least on the republican side. Speaker inevitably pisses people off. It’s unlikely to be a role you’d want as a springboard for presidential ambitions. Rather, the Rs who want leadership positions usually do so for the grift, and prefer being in the minority so they can hide how sold out they are. They burrow in, cash checks and collect favors. So I think this is a thankless sacrifice for Jordan, actually, who’s given no reason to think he’s in it for the grift, and may just be pretty close to the type of person Gaetz says he is, and is willing to do this and take the heat because he actually cares to try to get better outcomes.
The office of the Speaker of the House holds tremendous POWER, like the office of the President.
Some career hacks may be attracted for the grift, but the MAGA contingent, having endured watching Pelosi extend its power to the limit, are dieing to see that power used to push back the leftists, which career RINO hacks don’t want.
The Speaker authorises ANY subpoenas or legal actions taken by EITHER House of Congress.
Or, as we saw with Ryan and Nunes, refuses to sign subpoenas.
He can also approve ethics investigations in an election year, even though he knows they are groundless, again Ryan Nunes.
The MAGA contingent is itching to get their hands on that POWER, and the RINOS are trying to block that effort.
And I think the MAGA contingent is ascendent, and will prevail, both in getting a Speaker other than McCarthy, AND in getting the rule changes they want.
McCarthy is a hack grifter, but he is only the Bishop, as McDaniel is the Queen.
But haveto get them off the board, so we can put the King (McConnell) in checkmate.
The game isn’t over, but this is a good start.
And this move (pun intended) by McCarthy will rub some the wrong way.
Well said. As if you needed to further cement your hold on the Head of the Class Chair. Sundance needs to have dutchman on speed dial. Then again, maybe he does.
McCarthy needs to face the facts and graciously step aside to give another the opportunity for the good of the party.
Three failed votes = no confidence
Actually, as Tucker pointed out tonight in his opening monologue, “Three failed votes” == negotiations continue.
Perhaps some armchair opiners “need to face the facts”.
However, to do so, they first need to set aside feels and fantasies and begin dispassionately searching for ” the facts”.
Problem is no basis for trust or enforcement with Kevin McCarthy/DS “deals” before Jan 2025.
We could easily be collapsed into an authoritarian blackhole by then. AI censorship, hot Cold War to WWIII, more rigged elections, more State bioterrorism and fascism, more/massive political arrests and rigged trials.
A real leader..no… a real man would have done that after round 2
If Kevin McCarthy is “the best we can do,” the war is already lost.
Ok doomer. 😘
And for the bizarre twist to his story…. 😳
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/spotted-kevin-mccarthys-roommate-frank-luntz-seen-mccarthy-capitol-today/
WHAT a TRIPLET
” SPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney, Jim Jordan, and McCarthy ally/pollster Frank Luntz off the House floor, per GOP sourceSPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney, Jim Jordan, and McCarthy ally/pollster Frank Luntz off the House floor, per GOP sourceSPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney, Jim Jordan, and McCarthy ally/pollster Frank Luntz off the House floor, per GOP sourceSPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney, Jim Jordan, and McCarthy ally/pollster Frank Luntz off the House floor, per GOP sourceSPOTTED: Mick Mulvaney, Jim Jordan, and McCarthy ally/pollster Frank Luntz off the House floor, per GOP source ”
Olivia Beavers on twitter
THEN This Bit for the MSM –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mulvaney-on-republicans-who-voted-against-mccarthy-a-lot-of-these-guys-like-to-be-famous/ar-AA15WwMj
Mulvaney -winner of the Worst Performance in a Press Conference Ever award before being banished to Ireland and returning to discover his true inner never Trumper self-what a douche
Mulvaney was a hard-working nerd who found himself in the lion’s den with a bunch of MSM journos. What happened to him was stupid.
And yes, Trump and the Trump Organization are in the hospitality business (for those who remember the remark that brought him so much scorn.)
Mulvaney also liked cantaloupes.
OMG guilt by association!!!
Deploy digital stones.
Activate political Karen’s and Pharisees stat.
Demand ideologically pure bubbles and echo chambers noooowwww!!!
No fraternization with impures can be tolerated.
Here is the headline that I really had hoped for:
after three failed attempts to remove the speaker of the house, THE PEOPLE simply decided to hang them all.
(fantasy over)
God Bless America
“Hang them all” fantasies.
Into erotic autoasphixation?
I nominate James Woods. He would be the smartest man in Washington DC…hands down. Hollywood won’t hire him anymore so he IS available. He is wicked smart and tough as nails.
I like it.
Heck, the rest of Congress are all actors anyways….
Rush used to say politicians and media are the ones that couldn’t make it in Hollywood.
yeah… slight correction…”…weren’t good looking enough to…” Damn I miss him…
bad actors, mostly both ways
Knows nothing about how the House works. Has zero relationships with those he’d lead. His main job would be as a fund raiser which he’d loathe.
Conclusion? OMG “I nominate him”.
There actually is no requirement that the Speaker be a member of the House, so theoretically possible,…but he would have to get a majority of votes.
The “no one but Kevin” crowd would never vote for him, or PDJT, so its probably a fantasy.
Everybody favorite, Karl Rove. /s
The comments are very uplifting, tho!
Is there not a single leader in the republican side of the house?
Jordan gets up and says they’ve been there 16 years and he likes McCarthy’s styles. 16 years is tantamount to a career. It’s time for these guys to move on.
Since they’re there, though, and Jordan got 19 votes (8-9%), why can’t he see to it to take up the baton and walk forward to do the job that a number of his peers think he OUGHT to do?
The fact that he refuses to accept the leadership role is OFFENSIVE. He chose to go to Congress, and he’s been there 16 years!! The congressional representative is a leadership calling. Grow into your britches already, man! You want to lead, but not that much?
Apologize to your buddy Mike and say, “You got three gos at it, and the minority ain’t biting. Let’s call it done and try something new. I (Jordan) have the start of a block, and if we are really BUDS, then I (Jordan) ain’t a far throw from you (McCarthy) as far as temperament and ideology. Plus, you can be my whip, and together we’ll clean up.”
Why can’t he do that?
speaker of the house requires total time and committment. I believe (just my opinion) that JJ is concerned that all the investigative work that he has accomplished over a myriad of corrupt and criminality by the swamp will be shifted to some other member who may not have the stomach, the spirit, the reputation, or the integrity to follow through and see to it that a proper investigation with criminal referrals happens.
It is no small thing to gain a speaker gavel only to lose the very power of truth won by very hard work over a long period of time, with all the relationships and contacts established and watch that all become subject to the high likelihood that no one really is capable of holding that kind of power and using it. As Speaker he might be capable of opening up a path for that truth to be public and even advance to its predicted end, that justice may be served. But who is that person other than himself? He would not be allowed as speaker to be directly involved in that work.
I may be totally wrong, but I would imagine this is why he resists the gavel.
JJ has assembled a very good record and evidence of wrong doing and even impeachable offenses of other members and the DOJ/FBI. I cannot imagine anyone else capable of completing the task he started.
This is the reality he faces.
As far as his support for mccarthy, I believe he has made an agreement that mccarthy will create the rules and process by which JJ and his team of patriots to take the next big steps in bringing justice to those who have abused power, and created criminal conspiracies I believe this is the ONLY reason why JJ supports mccarthy. In that view, it makes sense to me, even if it is hard to stomach that JJ would support mccarthy as speaker.
this is purely my own guess and opinion. I am deliberately showing my bias and would like to have faith that JJ is not swampy or nieve.
I pray about these things daily.
God Bless America
Then Jordan wouldn’t have time to go on tv all the time.
Yep, and I have my doubts ANYTHING will be accomplished even if they start hearings into all the bribes, corruption and selling out of America. JJ reminds me of Gowdy with his talent for speech and words, however, all talk and no action.
you would have never heard from any member of congress about these matters…
second, it bears reminding that the democrats, with top bitch peloser denied any investigative powers from any committees to investigate ANYTHING about these matters.
the court of public opinion is so powerful the reality is that you would not have voted FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP if he did not spend so much time ON TV MAKING THE CASE.
media…is power when used correctly and effectively.
I would argue it is just as powerful as the actual investigation.
when you get people to care about something…this is power.
the truth IS a lion. BUT YOU MUST SET IT FREE.
then, only after its release, will it defend itself.
I will never regret supporting JJ. But I am, as I have stated, somewhat curious why he supports mccarthy. The only way this makes any sense to me is that they have established a deal of some type for mccarthy to clear the path to a proper investigation of a MYRIAD OF CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS.
and I can think of no better person than JJ to be point man on those investigations. As speaker, JJ would not be able to be that….
I am of course, as stated showing a strong bias. I am prepared to be wrong. It’s happen so often in recent years, yet I still hold out for hope that there are still good men and women who are patriots and loyal to sacred oaths.
God Bless America
Another item or two to consider would be that at the start of the first Trump impeachment, Jim Jordan was on Judiciary but not on the intelligence committee. The House rules had been changed to be able to run the impeachment investigation through the intelligence committee. Jim Jordan and (I think) Devin Nunes and maybe one more person approached Kevin to arrange to have one of the freshman congressmen moved from Intel and Jim Jordan slotted in. McCarthy agreed and made the changes. McCarthy was the only one with the power to make that happen.
Jordan retained his position on Judiciary and within a year became ranking member when Doug Collins had to resign that position to run for senator.
Remember the hired gun attorneys that ran the show during both the HPSCI and Judiciary phases of the Ukraine hoax impeachment? One was an SDNY prosecutor named Daniel Goldman. That same Daniel Goldman is the incoming congressman for (NY-10). It is beyond my imagination that Mr. Goldman would not be assigned to Judiciary. That one is likely to become a problem. Jordan might have some insight into Goldman.
thank you for adding credible facts that I was not aware. My suspicious cat often runs down empty rat holes…but often while not catching the prey, there is a rat down there, or three..or 4 dozen.
this is WHY I POST to be clear. I have a general intuition…as do we all. Together, we complete a wider circle.
God Bless America
Totally agree
How many indictments? How many arrested? How many trials? How many convictions? JJ is a loud mouth do nothing. Nothing ever becomes of his exposures.
yet. as to the reasons to explain the lack of actionable referrals.
see peloser and her ilk of uniparty scofflaws.
also see FBI and DOJ AND DOD.
also see the corrupt courts.
we are far from out of the woods on these matters. And there is a strong possibility that you will be correct and the outcome unnerving to anyone that has truly seen the trail of criminal acts.
But we are seeing something profound happening here with the speaker debacle.
and it’s no small miracle that a band of “SO CALLED” minority members are holding the line to set up the mother of all breaches against the machine.
I consider that battle worthy and I am pleased to understand the battle is legitimate and authentic.
how this plays out with actual charges and convictions for criminal act is not for me to assume. But without these speaker battles, none of that could ever even be possible.
this is WHY this gavel vote is so important. I would say it has the potential of being the most powerful and significant event in politics in the last 30 years. perhaps even as important as the election of President Trump and latter the stolen election.
we are, whether we recognize it or not, seeing a small group of highly motivated house members aiming directly and are using the most powerful weapon they can …the power to sway who holds that gavel.
God Bless America
You are dreaming. McCarthy has hamstrung any investigation and such investigations occur only when the Speaker allows them. THAT’S why Jordan for Speaker. You can get any fool to sit in a committee chair, but its the power of the Speaker that sets the agenda and resources the committee with power.
Frankly, they need to cast off Mc Carthusian and band together for Jorden. And they better do it quick. Or they are in collusion with the Dems…
“They need to”.
Those fighting in DCs den of vipers obviously disagree with what far away armchairs imagine ” they need to” do.
Could it be that the fighters actually in DC know a teensy bit more about what “they need to do” than far away armchair critics and advisers do?
Or if someone doesnt comply with an armchair demand do they immediately become a tRaiToR RiNo SwAmP dEmOn?
,…and they better do it quick.”?
WTF? There is no time limit, by which they MUST select a Speaker.
Take a week, take three, its not like Congress does anything urgent.
Better to take the time, to do it right, with new Speaker AND rule changes, such as motion to vacate and single issue bills.
If that takes three weeks, fine.
Devin Nunes for Speaker!
How about Nancy, wtf, have a little fun. How about that liar from NY. Adam, yea.
Zelensky!
That’s a hell of an idea.
Devin Nunes is CEO of Trump Social.
ok
.
“The GOP is done”.
The GOP == over 4,000 local precincts. Membership is open to ALL registered Republicans. They aren’t ” done”. They’re returning to life.
Repurposing Mark Twins famous remark after hearing he’d died while in Europe, ” the news of the GOP and Dems being ‘done, finished, caput, moribund’ is greatly exaggerated”.
McCarthy is a pig for putting us all through this, yet the swamp points at us jeopardizing the speakership. LOL.
At this point, I don’t mind seeing Jeffries or some swamp creature take the spot. Things have clearly not gotten bad enough around here yet.
It needs to be bad enough to lay at the commies’ feet only. We aren’t there yet and our slim majority isn’t powerful enough with these fat pigs still at the trough.
Its not about “our slim majority” and by that I assume you mean the slim REPUBLICAN majority.
Our MAGA faction has considerable power, BECAUSE of the slim majority that Kevin worked so hard for.
He withheld funding from MAGA candidates, because he didn’t want a majority of his caucus to be MAGA.
Over 50 percent of the Republicans in the House, have been elected since 2016, and are MAGA or MAGA-leaning.
But, with a slim R majority, individual members, or very small groups have MORE power.
This revolt against McCarthy started with FIVE.
After they publically stated they would not vote for McCarthy, 14 signed a letter, saying they would not vote for anyone who didn’t agree to the rule changes, and McCarthy refused.
5 votes is enough to stymie the efforts of the Uniparty, and 20 blows them out of the Water.
I don’t think it will be Jordan, I think he is a ‘stalking horse’ and the MAGA concensus candidate is’nt even being mentioned, yet.
Gaetz and Co. have planned this, and they have an end game, we just aren’t seeing it, yet.
Gaetz hinted that it involves drawing the process out, saying “no hurry, better to get it right.
And, by the by talking TERM LIMITS, which has got to be very unpopular in Congress…maybe using it as a threat?
Hope your assessment iks Correct. I agree, what is the hurry
May as well continue the impasse ad infinitum. It is better a non-functioning Congress than one that functions against its constituents.
With the dims in control of both the Senate and the WH things are likely to continue in an impasse anyway. Which is far better than what we’ve had.
If McCarthy gets the speakership he’d probably make sure the worst of the worst passed.
1855 and 1859.. and what happened in 1860?
The Nation is deeply divided, again.
Keep your powder dry, larder stocked, and doors locked.
“This is the way our system was designed”. Very nice to see after decades of both parties ramming their wants and desires down our throats by people that have no interest in the peoples business. Not the chaos as we see reported, but having elected people finally fighting back on the floor! Go team!
AGREED. 😘😘😘
Great question. If genuinely curious a search for answers will begin.
In this case, “seek and you will find” answers. Quickly.
Uniparty uses fear mongering on their own base in order to get their chosen one installed.
This Hakeem Jeffries shit is just that. They want to swing/ scare the base over to their swamp alligator Mc Swampy.
Don’t believe any of it.
Hold your ground, make him give you everything you demand, or he steps aside.
Look what the squad got from Naz-Xi Bellicosie?
Everything they demanded.
Once you beat your adversary, they will see you differently forevermore.
He doesn’t like fundraising.
Tucker had a good segment on this tonight.
That’s a bad haircut Kevin has.
Looks like an all-nighter for McCarthy. Maybe Jim Jordan can nominate President Trump on January 6th!
Sarah Ferris
@sarahnferris
Van Drew, whose lived through tough speaker fights on BOTH sides now, told me he finds one major difference between the two approaches.
“In the other side, you would just be threatened and told what to do,” he quips. “That’s why they’re successful.”
5:08 PM · Jan 3, 2023
it’s my understanding that the U.S. Constitution does not require a candidate for speaker of the house to be an elected member of Congress… DJT anyone?
Laura, you are a sheep populist and under that wool is a Fox Uniparty sellout. Sorry, but let it play out. A year has been lost since the Senate took the knees out from under the new Congress with McTurtles back room deal with Sneaky Lying Chuck and with Kev’s approval because he doesnt like hard votes. Bubbye Kev.
The fact that the selection process of the speaker of the House is reverting to what happened way in the past, gives me hope that the (fake) 2 party system may be nearing collapse.
We whom are awake all know that we have been living under a uniparty system for a long tme.
Happy New Year!
The Uniparty has a new name, the USCP, a subsidiary of the CCP, and they ARE NOT WINNING.
They have continued to fight holding actions, and execute sacrifice plays, and losing ground, since the escalator ride.
You do not resort to intimidation, when you are winning, and J6 was pure planned intimidation.
Whats happening in the House right now?
THIS is winning!,…
ENJOY it.
Ok, sure Eyepatch McCain, here is my Taliban negotiation, surrender all the millions you have made from insider trading, take yourself and all your RINO congressional traitors with you, clinging to a C-130 and leave the country.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
Replying to
@stillgray
The Intercept reported that Gaetz and AOC was talking about how McCarthy was trying to get Democrats to vote “present” in an effort to lower his threshold so he could become speaker.
AOC said not a chance.
9:18 PM · Jan 3, 2023
If Jordan becomes speaker and Kev resigns from Congress, I can live with that.
No. 3 by RINO threat that if the holdouts don’t get McCarthy through, they’ll vote for Dem. So, they’ll force the MAGA holdouts to hold their nose and vote McCarthy.
I hope they don’t. No diff if McCarthy or Dem win. UniParty be the UniParty.
Maybe, it’s the beginning of a Third Party?
we can see who is really desperate in March…
Does anyone really care if it ended up Jeffries? Is there really any difference between McCarthy and Jeffries? They always work together and come up with what is best for the 435 bodies, not the 330 million Americans, no?
I wonder if McCarthy now regrets announcing that he was misleading Trump, after Trump left office.
#4 could be RINOs voting for Jeffries out of spite. Don Bacon has already said as much.
Get McCarthy out of that office at all costs.
I will note that Nathaniel Banks ended up being the worst CW1 general appointed by Lincoln. And there was a lot of competition.
Nominate Trump junior. Both he and his dad have been rung through the ringer
And the results will be another Republican will be elected to Republican like Republicans do.
Seen this before, let’s not pretend its anything new.
as a deep stater, I have to believe that some Dems are going to break ranks and vote for McCarthy today to maintain the status quo they need him as the house speaker or a democrat
Jim Jordan won the NCAA wresting championship for his weight class in 1985 and 1986. He might have trouble making up his mind at times, but nobody should doubt his toughness.
Wrestling match on the Congressional floor then yes I’ll go with Jim…votes on the floor…Jim said he wouldn’t accept if he was voted in…words of a quitter.
Lee Smith on Epoch-TV exposing the “silos” that Sundance has reported on, and why McCarthy’s rules will continue the status quo
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-is-republican-lawmakers-no-1-investigative-target_4957772.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRDJNQS
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Jordan nominated McCarthy. That is a real head-scratcher for me
After saying he backed McCarthy, Trump will not say that NOW! Hmmmm.
Was this all to expose him? To show everyone the rat he is? I know we all knew, but remember…not everyone is awake. And because they are not awake does not mean they won’t awaken. There is always something else going behind what we see. Most of this up to now has been to awaken the populace. And it truly has been working! Kevin is a rat and more know it now!
Put Jim Jordan up, and get this over with. McCarthy will not be speaker.
If this country is to be saved, which will take a miracle at this point, things will have to get worse before they get better.
The Republican party would have to be dismantled and rebuilt and that would be a painful process to endure with years of “Democrat” (socialist/marxist) control. As unlikely as it may be, the Republican “controlled” congress should have to suffer the humiliation of allowing a Democrat to win speaker of the House, and We then will all have to suffer whatever consequences may come from that, in order for the cracks in the establishment to appear and begin to fall.
6 years ago, I was of a different mindset. But I have awakened and think We need to burn down (figuratively) the Rep party, rebuild it and deal with the short-term repercussions. I, for one, will not be voting for either of my Rep Senators the next time around. (Graham or Scott)
I also think now is the prime time to do it. I think the plurality of the conservative base is willing to do this. I would say this is evidenced by the fact that someone like Donald Trump could win the Rep Presidential primary in 2016. In the face of polling suggesting Trump had no chance, voters continued to risk the possibility of the other side winning (i.e. bush) in order to vote for an outsider. If for no other reason than to send a message.
It seems one often quoted definition of insanity applies here.
Dont keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
I say Never McCarthy.