The House GOP Speaker’s race is a system of conniving and positioning for a cushy committee assignment, indulgences from the lobbyist control apparatus, office locations and Machiavellian influence for the best junkets and largest leadership PAC deposits. That’s the truth, the non-pretending truth about the system at work behind the GOPe blind vote.
This internecine professionally Republican stuff has nothing to do with principle centered leadership, and everything to do with self-indulgences and personal affluence.
Riddle me this…. Steve Scalise drops out leaving Jim Jordan as the last man standing that seemingly could unite the caucus. Kevin McCarthy supports Jordan. Against this backdrop, Georgia Republican Austin Scott, the seven-term representative who told CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday that the GOP’s inability to elect a new speaker “makes us look like a bunch of idiots,” now enters the race.
If the caucus was likely to support Jordan, and if Scott was so concerned about them looking like idiots, then why would Scott enter the race to impede the consensus candidate? That tells you what you need to know about Georgia’s Austin Scott.
Georgia? What concerns have previously been identified within the Georgia Republican political circles? Funny that.
VIA CNN: Austin Scott began his political career in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1997, where he served until being elected to Congress in 2011. Scott, represents Georgia’s 8th Congressional District, serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Armed Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee.
WASHINGTON DC – Jim Jordan is poised to take a step toward the speaker’s gavel on Friday — even as he faces a last-minute challenger.
Republicans are meeting Friday afternoon to hear directly from the Ohio conservative and Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who threw his hat into the ring just before the close-door meeting and added a new dimension to the topsy-turvy speaker’s race.
While there are enough Republicans opposed to — or wary of — a Jordan speakership to block him from getting the 217 necessary votes on the floor, he is projecting confidence that he will clear the much easier simple majority threshold for becoming the conference’s pick for speaker on Friday.
“I think I can unite the conference. I think I can go tell the country what we’re doing and why it matters,” he told reporters, adding that he feels “confident” heading into the secret ballot vote.
But whether Jordan can ultimately capture the speaker’s gavel remains far more uncertain, with a coalition of vulnerable front-liners and frustrated allies of Scalise and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicting that the Ohio Republican falls short. (read more)
If Jordan doesn’t get the nod, possibly Representative Mike Johnson (R-La.) could. However, regardless of who might take the gavel, the real issues within DC operate behind the Potemkin villages of Congress.
We desperately need a speaker or the Dems are going to try and import 2 million savages from Gaza
Try?
Past tense.
not the dead ones.
Try, there is no try, done already. That is why we will fail.
Austin Scott’s signature is on this list. It’s really all we need to know about this creep.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/45-house-rinos-sign-letter-calling-8-gop/?utm_source=rss
Of course my scumbag RINO Rep is on this list….so sick of this bum!! (Bentz-OR)
Damn fool will sign anything he’s paid to.
I only see > bread and circuses< entertain the masses. They think we don’t know. We KNOW!
The entire Congress needs to just go home.. and never come back. Worthless, useless.. at least to us.
Blah blah blah
They are evil. Damaging and dangerous
So what is wrong with “nothing gets done?”
Everything these scoundrels actually do HURTS the American people.
The dems are worried about the harm they can’t do, if there’s a gov’t shutdown
Some how, I’m still rootin for president Trump, unless he can come back as potus this year.
An endorsement from McCarthy does not bode well for the integrity of Jordan
Personally I think that the House Republicans should get behind someone, other than McCarthy, Jordan would be fine, as suspect as he may be, and just have the new Speaker on the same short leash, subject to revocation, that McCarthy was.
This doesn’t mean that there aren’t any, or even predominantly, RINOs, GOPe, and UniParty, but maybe, just maybe, they can do something right for a change. If not and Jordan foists another 45 day CR, file another motion to vacate.
The important thing here is to use the motion to vacate if the Speaker pulls any shenanigans and the replacement has to be 100% somebody new. Then eventually we may be able to find someone with a spine, or at least cartilage.
Austin Scott should be at the end of the line right in front of McCarthy.
Austin Scott Conservative Review Liberty voting score: 65% or a “D” rating. In other words, a RINO!
Jim Jordan’s score: 100% or an “A” rating. A true conservative.
I also heard that ex-Congressman Lee Zeldin is in the running for Speaker. His score: 71% or a “C” rating. RINOy lite, but probably good enough for the establishment and conservatives.
We need a Republican speaker ASAP. We all know how down and dirty the dems are and Speaker is in line to become president.
The dems could get rid of Crooked Joe and Heels Up (which they want to do anyway) and with no Speaker, majority leader of the Senate would become president. Patti God-awful Murray.
They could use the 25th on Joebama, maybe even use Kackula’s non-NBC status to get rid of her or just go with plain old Arkancide to get rid of them both.
Yes, that third in line is an important point.
According to the vote count, only 207 republicans voted in the speaker race.
Some people may be getting tired of the corruption peddling.
After the DeSantis debacle; why would any other R’s get stars in their eyes, when the Bushies come a knocking?
Good grief, DeSantis listened to these clowns and completely smoked his political career.
Money may talk, but all the money in the world is not worth your soul.
FUBAR
F.U.B.A.R.