Our dear friend Sharon always reminds us, “Those whose motives are based on deception, will always find an audience willing to be deceived.” That, my friends, is the current status of the Republican party watchers and one of the primary reasons this little corner of the internet, The Last Refuge, was formed.
We accept things as they are, not as we would wish them to be and never as we would pretend them to be. Pretending is an endless quest akin to convincing. Those who operate in the world of political pretense expend an exhaustive amount of energy in constant vigilance against those who speak plain truths.
The House of Representatives has adjourned until 10pm tonight, when another vote will be taken, as outlined by the design of the Kevin McCarthy supporters.
Why adjourn? Why return at 10:00pm on a Friday evening? Simply, because the McCarthy team is counting on several House members (mostly Democrats) not being in attendance for the quorum, facilitating a lower threshold of the vote to achieve a majority.
435/434 members present = 218 votes needed
433/432 members present = 217 votes needed
431/430 members present = 216 votes needed
429/428 members present = 215 votes needed
etc.
(Washington DC) – […] McCarthy got an additional jolt of energy on the 13th ballot when Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), another previous opponent, also flipped to support him. He still fell short of the necessary majority of those voting present, however, with six GOP members remaining in the no camp.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a moderate and key McCarthy ally, said the chamber hoped to adjourn after the thirteenth ballot to allow allies of the California Republican to sit down one-on-one with his remaining dissenters. As to whether their opposition comes down to McCarthy himself, he said: “We’re gonna find that out.”
And lawmakers then followed suit, voting to adjourn the chamber until 10 p.m. That will tee up a potentially decisive ballot late Friday night.
McCarthy, speaking to the press, said he would have the votes needed for election when it came back into session. (more)
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Mccarthy us a dirtbag
99% are dirtbags
Not sure if this has already been posted (as if, anyone had any doubt about this swamp rat):
https://valiantnews.com/2023/01/kevin-mccarthy-had-dinner-with-klaus-schwab-spoke-at-wef-with-mcconnells-wife/
Yes he is a dirtbag and when the Dems don’t show up and he becomes speaker the first thing he’ll do is call for Matt Gaetz to keep his word and resign. Last night Gaetz told Laura Ingram that he would resign if the Republicans made a deal with the dems to make McCarthy speaker and they will say this was the deal.
One of the hold outs should nominate Ashli Babbitt’s mother.
…who was arrested today.
Cuffed and hauled off.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/mother-ashli-babbitt-arrested-capitol-police-video/
infuruating
Ah, the figurative broken water pipe in the middle of the night scheme!
Hoping the Democrats show up . . . then again, are they ok with McCarthy when they could possibly take his “precious” (gavel) away from him?
Or, McCarthy and Co. cut a deal with the dems to encourage a certain number of them to be no shows. What did he promise them?.
McCarthy is a coward with no integrity or morals.
Guaranteed
I heard they were asking for subpoena power.
Yes! This is how the uniparty rolls. The dems want KMc. They just cannot openly vote for him. So they arranged this strategy. These people are professional grade liars and gaslighters.
Not showing up will be a way for Democrats to vote for McCarthy without actually having to vote. They can always come up with an excuse for not being there. These will be carefully selected Democrats who won’t face much blow back from constituents.
McCarthy will then owe the Democrat party. How’s that amnesty bill coming along, Kevin?
LOL. What’s not to love about Frank Luntz’ roomie if you’re a “Dem”?? He’s their bitch.
or the Obamacare vote on Christmas Eve in the middle of the night when bible clingers were in Church?
“Clingers”? Seriously?
It’s a Hillary quote.
Obama’s.
“And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,”
Senator Barack Obama – 2008
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2008/april/obama-they-cling-to-guns-or-religion.html
Thank you, I had my ‘demonrats’ mixed up….
I am full of faults and depend on my Lord and Savior….I also have strong beliefs about the direction of this country, that is being driven by those with utter greed and grift in their hearts and
Care not for the suffering of their constituents and the rest of the American people.
Every so many years, we have, foisted upon us…”Agendas” that are financially and ideologically, unachievable while the economy is trashed and lives of every day people, turned upside down…
At the state level, our taxes, like Marcia stated within the thread…that do nothing for us….except fund schools and oversized pensions.
Life is hard enough, whether one is stupid or not…rant done.
Yes….something about a ‘basket of deplorables’ I think it was 44 who said something about clinging to guns and bibles….I may be wrong on the full quote but true conservatives who value God and family knew what spoke of.
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Won’t flip anyone… but “I’ll have the count” Kevin says with a smirk.
Finish any negotiations. It is done.
He’s probably made a deal with a few Ds who will be absent so the threshhold is lowered and will make his current count the majority.
Question: Will all the previous concessions still be in force should he get the necessary votes on the 14th try?
No way.
Kevy will say no. Hope they got it all in writing signed with his blood.
I think so, because that is why the rest of the holdouts voted for him today ‘in good faith’. We will see!
Let’s be really clear, any “concessions” are 100% worthless in writing or not. What possible leverage do less than 15 House members have? Even with the small GOP majority, a liar like McCarthy is always a liar and will do exactly what his globalist puppet masters tell him to do.
Dead center bullseye, Oldretired.
And the band played on.. Another fine display of Washington politics.
I pray this doesn’t go his (Kev’s) way tonight. Not only because he does not deserve to be Speaker, but also because there will be a lot of peeved House members who spent a late Friday night sitting in the chamber.
Oh they’ll be peeved. boo hoo. They have only themselves to blame.
fun song but Cher is a numbskull
Sonny was pretty good but he ended up with a skull problem too
Hey, did Cher hit that same tree and live?
Republicans couldn’t organize a BBQ at a butcher shop next door to a brewery!
I’d say it isn’t incompetence, but intentional corruption.
It is intentional.
Totally agree, but it’s hard to fit that sentiment into the joke!
My chuckle for the day
I once ate at a BBQ owned by a veterinarian. I never could quite get a handle on how I should feel about that.
Don’t fret. It all tastes like chicken.
my first successful business:
bob’s veterinarian / taxidermy shop
“we promise you will get your pet back”
now I can figure out how to apply this business model legally toward congressional scofflaws
So, ‘magnificent seven’, huh? Just a few hours ago, it was the ‘rebel alliance’…the ‘proud 20’. Blah, blah, blah. If those ‘seven’ continue to stand in the breach ’til the end — hell, if just one of them does — then they deserve our everlasting praise and respect.
When mccarthy is awarded his stained crown — we all know it’s coming — and any of those ‘seven’ permanently remove themselves from the stained halls of congress, then I will stand and salute and thank them for trying.
Our Republic will not be saved by the disgusting filth in Washington, D.C. who stopped representing us years ago. So, I pray there will be just one of those seven who will do just that.
It is six only now..
MTG is constantly hugging the touching McCarthy. Someone posted a photo from today in the previous thread. I always thought something was off about her.
She seems giddy.
Like she is riding around in a Mustang convertible with the Big Man on Campus.
I don’t think the “big man on campus” likes women.
He had to have promised her something big. Doesn’t matter. She is now a worthless POS in my eyes. I’m also extremely disappointed in Gosar. Notice how he ran away the second after he switched his vote???
She’s a political whore. But then again which of them isn’t.
Didn’t her husband just file for divorce??
The Club welcomes MTG with a token of their appreciation
All pussy, no pirate
Another example in a long line of examples.
These people are not heroes.
How many times will people be fooled by politicians? Over and over and over.
It is all fake. These people are lying to you.
Unless they have money of their own (such as President Trump), then they do whatever they are told to do by their financial backers.
You didn’t see this ?
She is getting a divorce, is McCarthy single?
Eewww.
She is school girl giddy, and needs to be flushed immediately.
Here’s betting he never moved his squatter &*^ out of the Speaker’s office.
Luntz has been busy putting the finishing touches on the Speaker’s office— with his decorating flare.
Twin or full pullout?
He is the one who built a replica of the White House in his home, remember?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/inside-republican-pollster-frank-luntzs-937423/
How much squatting do you think Frank makes him do around the house?
I just heard the the rules package being negotiated with McCarthy has to be voted on by the House and needs 218 votes to pass. Does anyone know if this is true?
That’s what happened to Manchin who thought he had a deal with Schumer but his caucus wouldn’t go along. If true, the 14 that flipped are being played.
Lucy and the football all over again. They’ll NEVER learn.
I really don’t think there’s any way McCarthy is going to have to adhere to any constraining agreements.
Another level of deception and gamesmanship.
Was this adjournment part of the plan to maintain the appearances of partisan lines minus the holdouts and the Uniparty-D’s who just happen to decide not to be present at 10pm and shift the goalposts?
Draw your own conclusions.
I’m all out of rage. Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way.
#metoo
If the Senate had been in Session I would have pleaded with Putin…
And salt the earth, to be sure!
How about another Red Tsunami instead, but of another kind…..
the 600 foot wall of water onto DC from the offshore Russian nuke?
It would enable the Green-tards to be right about rising sea levels.
I don’t know much, but I cannot even find anything on the Vegas Bookies and their odds for a Republican house leader let alone McCarthy…
Anyone else?
Predictit has McCarthy at 91%, up 38% today.
What we’ve been watching is yet ANOTHER example of why America is on the brink. We see 435 “representatives of the people” who could care less what happens to the people or their nation.
“What we’ve been watching is yet ANOTHER example of why America is on the brink.”
Yes, watching. We’re always watching. With electronic daggers in our eyes.
The cleverest thing the usurpers ever did was to convince so many for so long that there still remained a brink to be gone over.
Wake up. Or are you still waiting for a Fox News Bulletin?
The brink is behind us.
“We accept things as they are”
And in so accepting, things never fail to get worse.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I was trying to be as “upbeat” as possible because I’m regularly taken to the woodshed by fellow treepers for not being optimistic enough.
Check out my posts on the following pages Dawg. You aren’t the only one who has been “woodsheded”, but there are many here who are seeing the situation realistically. The cult-optimists are not the majority here I have found, they are just the first to get aggressive on the keyboard.
No words. One more straw which never is enough to break the proverbial back. Though I’m well past it. Years ago. This happened today. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-ashli-babbitts-mother-arrested-outside-capitol
Lucky “Friday the thirteenth” ? – more CNN disinformation. (Hint: today is January 6th…)
Now he doesn’t have to keep any concessions or promises he made? Right? So it was for naught? A big nothing burger?? The Uniparty/RINO status quo has held!!! So Speaker McCarthy-Luntz it is!! Perhaps Dennis Hastert can give him some good advice on how to avoid hush money payments!!!
I think Kevin should bring a special guest with him tonight:
The Count from Sesame Street, doing The Song of the Count. 🙂
There is no honor among thieves. And Kevin McCarthy most definitely does not have any honor.
An honorable man would not ‘accept the prize’ by deception.
Instead, Kevin McCarthy will grab that prize in both of his slimy paws, as he preens & struts his way to center stage.
The position of Speaker of the House of Representatives has not had a honorable inhabitant for quite some time. And, it’s rather foolish of us to believe things will change anytime soon.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY past time to dump the GOPe. I’ll never vote for a single one of them.
B-but aka Serena says we HAVE to, because, lesser of two evils!
Lol, I see you also met Serena….
Why I was so irritated people deceived themselves about 22 midterms. Vote, vote, vote they say…
Goodness me.
I would be ashamed to be aligned with any political party.
None more so than Republican.
As one who has vociferously supported President Trump.
( We drove down to Washington State from Canada and attended two PDJT rallies)
Unless something is in writing as regards J 6 etc..my belief is the Swamp has succeeded.
President Trump has failed MAGA. and he may be done.
I sincerely hope I am wrong, but on a day Ashli Babbits mom is arrested, these pukes balk.
Cheers!
I am very close to giving up on Trump. I hope Kevin shoves it up his ass now.
Didn’t Trump give an interview years ago saying he wanted to lose everything to see who still stood with him??????
Thankfully you are wrong. We are winning with Trump leading the way. Many just can’t see it yet just as the Israelites couldn’t see their imminent rescue with Moses leading while they were being beat and dealing with increased quota of bricks…
Well, another way to look at all this BS….
Irregardless of who Trump endorsed….it is showing Mr. Trump who can be bought…and or how to plan for deals in the future.
I seem to recalll, right after the installatiion two years ago…was it McCarthy? Or someone else out of the swamp?, who went to MAL and was practically strip searched before meeting with Trump?
Sigh. Nate– name a single, a single, lasting victory that could be construed as winning for our side. I’ll wait. And please don’t say the SCOTUS picks. Those turncoats are about worthless, with the exception of Thomas.
Sigh. Exposure. Much has been exposed in the past 6 years. FBI, MSM, fake MAGA politicians, DOJ, Justices, etc…
Can’t do what needs to be done until the public clearly sees the problem.
In fact many are still deceived by the likes of DeSantis, McCarthy, Gaetz, MTG, etc. More exposure needed.
Time for 15+ of the MAGAs hiding out in the keven total to vote for Hurn / other on the future votes.
The uniparty will get the rube they want to control, just like they got the imbecile they needed in the Whitehouse.
It’s all about greasing the skids for their real constituents on K Street.
We tax payers lose yet again.
We are living in the worst economic times since the mid 1800’s failures by the ruling party at every single turn and the failed leadership of the Republican Party is to be to be rewarded after the disaster that was the mid terms.
Total corruption for all to see
Never waiver from supporting the magnificent six.
They went to the mat for us and now the scum are going to systematically destroy them.
Kevin the snake wants to talk one on one only after he has dems agreeing to help him by not being there.
I love these six brave heroes .
Me too..I saddens me for a few minutes then I write my gratitude list and smile.
Great guy President Trump, and I guess he has savvy political reasons for shiving
the loyalists.
That said, unless something stellar is in the works, he is just another politician 🥱
I hope I have “egg on my face”
Cheers !
I have been disappointed in Trumps behavior of late too.
I hope you have egg on your face too.
No offense meant Dexter.
How can those 20 patriots trust Trumps leadership anymore?
The ugly answer is they can’t.
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TO EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN FLIPPER, GO READ THE COMMENTS ON YOUR LAST POST.
BREAKING: McCarthy wins Speaker vote after finding 150,000 mail-in ballots at 2am
• Genesius Times
My 2nd chuckle for the day
Wait for it! A water pipe will burst at 10:30 tonight, shutting off the power, and we’ll find out at 5:00 A M that Kev got the votes he needed and is now Speaker.
He’s in like Flynn.
Hooray
Illuminati Kevin has been assured it’s his. The little holdouts will be leveraged into irrelevance by the very party that let them into DC.
When we finally turn around and leave the shadow of that vile Luciferian party? The showboating of “pro-life” means zip. The rest of the party is about bringing home Federal bacon just like the Ds. Stop kidding yourself, the party plan is to eventually publicly unite for a crisis and turn us out.
Why do you think all the fake food recalls, destruction of the peoples food supply, Mountain house forced to only produce their #10 cans for months for the Feds?? The DUMBs are now stocked. Let the next wave of murdering virus/war/chem trails resume
There’s not an honest one in the bunch. Not even Matt and Lauren I’m certain we will come to find out as time goes on. I don’t think you get into the club unless you are bought and paid for. Fuq every last one of these reprobates. I’m done with all of them ever again.
Well, some of the 20 could flip back, if they had the spine of Gaetz, Boebart, or MTG.
MTG?????? I don’t think so!!
MTG is so pro McCarthy it’s eye opening.
MTG is so SUDDENLY pro McCarthy it’s eye opening. Wonder what he promised her.
All it took was a autographed “My Little Pony- Frank Luntz Edition” and a case of Ho-Ho’s.
“I have no axe to grind with Kevin. My constituents don’t want me to vote for him. It’s that simple.”
Eli Crane is one of the few remaining Kevin McCarthy holdouts.
Are people really buying these Theatrics???? and you know it’s a scam when the Politicians and MSM keep saying Democracy at Stake or Democracy at work or Democracy this/that…..and never acknowledge The United States is a Republic…..It’s beyond ridiculous…
CONgress: “America’s Criminal Class”
FallMcRINOs
FDNC
FJB
Its not about ballots or votes
its about marksmanship
By hook or crook
I have to believe that MCarthy has cut a deal with the democrats. Biden and Harris will be gone and he’ll be in place fulfilling the orders of the deep state. Like Ryan, the Shit Weasel, we’re getting played.
If any of you find this surprising than you haven’t been paying attention enough.
All I can say is vote harder suckers, maybe we’ll get’em next time.
Could someone please spell out which demands from 7 republicans who voted against McCarthy have not been met
Is it possible to demand that a snake in the grass suddenly become trustworthy? How do they demand that?
But you knew all along it was just a magic show.
How incredibly cocky McCarthy is acting right now tells you that he intends to renege immediately on whatever he promised (which is still completely unclear).
“How incredibly cocky McCarthy is …”
That’s what Frank Luntz said.
So in all of Washington DC there are only 6 politicians that truly are there for the people. Incredible. And McCarthy will try to make sure their careers are over.
McCarthy Warns Not Voting For Him Could Delay More Funds To Ukraine | Babylon Bee
We are ruled by hollow people.
This is going to sound wrong, but IF they hold outs are thinking as we are, then i hope Bobert continues to pack her Piece as well as speak her Peace along the others. I have one ? tho, what happens to their potentional Committee Appts if they were promised, or do they never ask again? I know its pat my back and me yours, im just a confused ole lady . thx
It’s a smoke screen to hide the fact that we only have ‘one’ party in the US Congress. A uniparty that sells out America and gets a cut of the action for doing so. Only forging link by link their chain in Hell.
If enough of the Dem wing were to switch sides and elect McTraitor as speaker that would expose this reality. Instead, they use tricks that only the useful idiots among us will be fooled by.
Meanwhile, the kleptocratic press will say that the Republicans have elected a speaker while nothing changes in the ‘rules’ that clearly violate the Constitution. Namely one rep, one vote. Will bills written by the swamp pass anyway? Yes but the point is every Representative needs to stand and be accounted for ‘their’ vote.
The few real representatives in Congress, God bless them, will not be able to challenge, let alone change anything that Saron dictates that the uniparty idiots pass.
It has appeared to me for many years now that in Washington the name of the game (especially with all those lawyers in Congress) is to become as best as possible a “passive aggressive” player in all things political. When one puts on that pair of glasses what will be seen are games just like we are experiencing now.
“Whoops, you mean you didn’t see that coming? Ha, ha sucker!”
With two years left till another election who will create the voting system where “one man–one vote” with an honest count is going to occur? The democrats have already proven they can really game our voting system, while the republicans have allowed such to take place.
Therefore, my measuring stick will look to that voting system for a clue as to how effective the republican Congress intends to be. The real fight is now, not yesterday, not two years from today.!
Even if restraints are created to balance our national budget, even if our borders are tightened up, even if our supply chain is restored, I will still look to voting integrity.
A liberal is someone who wants something. A conservative is someone who wants to keep something. Eric Hoffer wrote that many years ago. It’s a question of who has the most energy in either of the two conditions.
MR. McCARTHY HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?
NOPE
The answer, no he doesn’t.
Anyone that would sell out a country founded upon the Declaration of Independence and the Consitution, has no decency by definition.
He prefers Globalism. However the elites of Davos will probably consider him to be merely a useful idiot.
I remember when Buffet did that. I LOL!
That train left the station at birth. His mother should have eaten him while his bones were still soft.
Two R’s who’ve been absent due to family issues are returning tonight for the 10 pm victory vote. The descenters got played and MTG showed her stripes.
Have you noticed how all the bad stuff happens on a Friday night?
They got the news cycle to themselves (Damar Hamlin notwithstanding) for a whole week, to have it settled on a Friday night, just in time for all the Sunday morning shows.
And to think there were folks ’round here thinking, oh, maybe this means Trump will become Speaker.
That’s ok, I’m a multi-gold medal winning athlete… but I only compete after midnight in empty stadiums with no one to compete against… but I’m awesome.
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