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.
Just in — Jordan gets the GOP Caucus nod.
So now it’s up to the RINOs to fall in line for a change 🙂
Is RINOs falling in line the same thing as reaching across the aisle to vote with the demoncrats?
… Just want to make sure I understand the complex politics.
No reaching across the isle to help democrats is easy for them…a No brainer really.
Kevin McCarthy is a Democrat Joemama. You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it. He slow rolled investigations, didn’t release the J6 tapes and passed a CR to fund an abusive government.
Perhaps they’ll each gore the RINO in front of them in the but.
😂😂😂 beautiful
C-SPAN showing headline at 5:05 pm:
“55 House GOP members say will not support Rep.Jordan”
Will be interesting to hear their reasons…..
They won’t cause they don’t want us to know
The RINO neocons who voted for Austin and will not vote for Jordan will never be known by their own constituents. The blind vote closed door business put the kabosh on that.
Those RINOS are certainly part of The Big Club.
I think that my ‘rep’ may be one of the Austin voters today, but I won’t find out. This makes me angry.
I was not going to vote to re-elect Scott Fitzgerald -WI in 2024 anyway. He votes to send $$ to Ukraine and not to Maui, nor to means to secure our border. He does nothing to bring an American journalist held in prison in Ukraine home. Gonzalo Lira’s ‘crime’ was that he criticized the leader and government of Ukraine. He has been tortured there in prison. Nothing is being done by my rep and two senators, nor by the US State Dept., to bring him back to the States.
They’re democrats
And here we go again- proving we don’t know how to govern. 15 ballots? Hakeem has a rock solid 212 votes. “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”DR
Sorry that logic no longer cuts it for me.
I’d be one of them. He’s already talking CR and possibly Omnibus with weasel comments when questioned. And if all this wasn’t behind closed doors, we’d know “Why” the 55 Republicans will not support him.
No surprise.,, use the pro tem speaker…give him or a non rino what they need to stay pro tem..after a public floor vote to primary the 55 or however many.
We don’t need a permanent speaker and scalers and Austin should be told to shut up and sit down with the other rhinos after this.
If their names go out loud and clear, they will change their tunes. Just a guess that when they need to “publicly” declare their votes, rinos will suck their thumbs and vote the way big boys recommend. But we absolutely need their names. Primary them all OUT.
What timing
The GOP is going to be done if that happens
They’ve been done. MAGA is taking over.
Don’t bet on them. Many of the RINO holdouts know their own backsides will be exposed if they go against the GOPe. Enough to let an Obama clone Communist become the Speaker? We shall see. But we better hold these RINO feet to the fire for costing the Party control of the Senate and now the House. Time to expose the Demcommie Speaker candidate for what he has always been, an Islamic Marxist, just like Obama.
Here’s Austin Scott’s stock summary since 2019 (cocktail napkin version) according to Unusual Whales
Here’s a quick rundown of the stock transactions:
Total estimated amount for all transactions: $816,000 over 102 trades. He average making a trade every 14.3 days.
I am grateful Representative Scott was able to find time to represent his constituents in the 8th district of Georgia (Macon to Florida)
https://unusualwhales.com/politics/profile/Austin%20Scott
The RINO’s have chosen Austin Scott, a war monger and a top political trader from Georgia, to go up against Jim Jordan.
https://truthsocial.com/@RealAFPatriot/111229346871164587
Are those the net gains?
Don’t know if it matters , but I see every transaction works out as a factor of 8.
I doubt it. Looks like a wannabe day trader…
It looks like they are talking about total amounts of the trades.
The disclosures only give ranges and the net amounts are not available. That is the sum of the trades as listed on disclosures.
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How chummy is he with Kelly Lawler (name is a guess, she was the U.S. Senator from GA for a couple of years) . . .
And her husband owns the SEC
“Loeffler”
I’ll make sure to spit there the next time I make my drive from Illinois to Florida.
Only spit…..?
so of course he is a typical dickwad. his constituents ought to get a flyer with the same info you just posted. SHOULD.
Curious selection. Without looking up the rest of the stock symbols, I recognize some energy related companies.
Interestingly, some of the stocks on the provided link point to Clean Fuels Corp, Plug Power, Inc and Ballard Power Systems, Inc.
Looks at a first glance to be quite invested into Green New Deal favored stocks.
That makes sense. The wanker IS Sea Island bred. Aren’t they all trying to get ahead of the green energy grift.
LIKE ME, he is a day trader by legally skirting the SEC rules of BEING designated a day trader. I place more trades than that in 8 months. That total dollar amt. Is misleading. If you were to make 10 separate trades of the same stock at 40000 each trade, it would show up as $400,000 in your acct. summary. But you really only have $40000 you are using.
He only needs $25,000 and can trade til his heart explodes. You think he doesn’t want the designation to avoid the wrath of voters saying he is a part time legislator and full time day trader?
“In the United States, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) mandates a minimum equity requirement of $25,000 for day traders. This rule stipulates that day traders must have at least $25,000 in their accounts before they can engage in pattern day trading, which involves making four or more day trades in a five business day period. If a trader’s account falls below this amount, they won’t be able to continue day trading until the minimum equity level is restored by depositing cash or securities.”
https://pro.benzinga.com/blog/pattern-day-trader-rule-what-you-need-to-know/
Reminds me of Milli Vanilli’s greatest hits
In 2022, We the People elected 300+ House Republicans. But we were only given 200+.
Now you see why.
Doesn’t this tell us more about someone else moving the chess pieces than it does about Scott being another in a long line of sellouts?
I’m about as tired of Georgia Republicans as I’m tired of Texas Republicans.
Me too….and I’m from Georgia and live in Georgia.
Welcome to the crowd.
Howdy, cousin….
Well, if he’s calling the eight who stood firm vs. Scalise and those who got MCarthy dumped “grifters” and “traitors” he can go to Hades in my book. As other have said here, I’m guessinh he was drafted by the Bush/Donor wing in an attempt to continue business as usual.
And take focus off of “Going Biden”, which looks like it could be a real long-running surprise!
I guess this is still part of that inner battle for the GOP between GOPe and MAGA.
Let everyone put their hat in the race who wants to run for the position. Drop the lowest vote getter after each vote until you have the top choice…
And just go with it. Last man standing. What other choice do they have?
It may not be maga but it won’t be a top establishment republican either.
The GOPe are afraid they will lose campaign funding from the Speaker…and get stabbed in their back with secretly funded primary challenges if they don’t get a GOPe Rino Speaker because that’s what they did to maga.
Scott Liberty score 65%- Jordan 94%-The motion for 217 to nominate should have passed to avoid a public spectacle-Hakeem has a rock solid 212 behind him. If not Jordan, who? and no 15 ballots-He was endorsed by the Donald and Gaetz. Wouldn’t it be great to MAGA?
It looks like a MAGA vs. UniParty struggle going on.
They better not go to dems to pick their Speaker. We would end up with dem policy friendly GOPe Speaker if they do that.
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Repubs going home for the weekend…Jordan needs to get 60 more votes…
Stop the secret ballots for speaker…we need to know….
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Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit”
@Peoples_Pundit
26 more behind Jordan. But they should stop the secret ballot nonsense and get on the record.
This mentality is behind all of this. Forget Ukraine, etc., it’s about hiding from voters who and what they are.
Since it’s Friday, hopefully there will be leaks this weekend. Somebody knows something. Who are among these 60?
It will only take 10 Republicans, either abstaining or not voting for Jordon, to give the House to Democrats.
… or …. for the “sake of unity”, 6+ high minded, patriotic Republicans joining the Democrats.
The utter chaos of a democrat win in this scenario with respect to control of committees and legislation makes even a temporary win by the democrats worth it to the Uni-Party.
That’s probably their plan.
They are ALL just HIDEOUS.
Honestly, I hope the House is at an impasse for months..Americans need the break
I know how you feel, but my fear is that if there isn’t someone in charge soon, that when this CR runs out, they’ll all vote to just to extend the CR until the end of the fiscal year on a simple majority vote. I’m 100% sure that there are enough Dems and RINOs to do that.
whoever gets the final vote should at least make Rep. Mike Johnson the official Narrator, if not the Speaker. Mike’s voice is smooth like butter.
Mike Johnson (R-La.) has a 74% conservative vote record.
Steve Scalise (R- La.) has a 58% conservative vote record.
Auston Scott (R-La.) has a 65% conservative vote record.
None are impressive and Scalise has the lowest percentage.
Jim Jordan (R-Oh) has a 94% conservative vote record. Impressive voting score but I didn’t check exactly what he voted for or against.
You can check it for yourself at: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
Sounds like Scalise people aren’t too happy with Jordan, even though Scalise didn’t get anyone beyond what he had.
My wild guess is the Mitt Romney wing of the Republican Party is working on getting Democrat Hakeem Jefferies elected as Speaker in order to save the country from Jim Jordon and President Trump!!!
That’s part of it but the media will wrap in talking points:
Unity is needed
Republicans too divided to govern
Hakeem Jefferies is the “new” Obama.
Hak practices Obamboozler’s mannerisms every day.
It will take decades of electing the correct representatives before we will ever have a speaker that represents the voters concerns.
That’s sad to imagine….I probably won’t make it 2 more decades.
Has Republican leadership started an investigation of the J6 committee or the treatment of American citizens as political prisoners? Will the new Speaker rip up Biden’s State of the Union Address on national TV. At least they could have impeached somebody by now. Republicans are worthless and when they are not laughing all the way to the bank they are in hibernation.
Scott receives a D rating from CR…not good.
Just leavin’ this here for now.
6 o’clock can be dangerous.
Scott has a D rating from CR…not good, he’s the fly in the soup.
Scott is trying to keep it open so Mitch can install another puppet like Kev.
Mitch would install a Democrat if he could. Or better yet, a Chinaman.
Grubby Georgia
Just leave the position vacant. Can’t pass any more spending bills. When people see the sun comes up in the morning they might just understand government is not the end all to be all. We’d be better off if shut down the Senate and fired FJB and Kamala. Furlough the agencies and lapse the salaries. Start over from scratch with just the Constitution.
I’d drink to that…
According to Warroom there is a lot of rino resentment toward Jim. They can’t stand it that he was endorsed by Trump. So McHenry is working with Dems to cut deals. Install McCarthy in exchange for favors. If that happens, the s will definitely hit the fan. Vote will be Tuesday.
😡😡🤬🤬
Sounds like Scalise has a lot of anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, anti-Deplorables corrupt a$$hats behind him. People who need to be primaried in every district they run. Need names.
not a chance the MAGA republican crew will bend. We will have no speaker. Suits me.
It’s a 14 month gig anyway. The communists will be in control in 2025. That’s the insurance policy against a PDJT win.
When super budget Conservative Policy/Budget Hawk Russ Vought endorsed Jordan, it had to have been that he was convinced that Jordan had put forward a plan to reduce spending and secure our borders which was a pre condition he had previously expressed…can’t find if this is accurate….does anyone have insight into this question?…thx…
Meet the new whores
Same as the old whores
WHO wrote that ?
Now that Jordan has won, I want to see what he agreed to for the support. This crap with all the horse trading behind closed doors further keeps Americans – especially Conservatives – in the dark which causes this jaded Conservative to doubt whether I’ll actually be receiving any representation. The Washington Uniparty expends more effort over treading water and not really accomplishing anything all the while trying to make it look like “it was the Democrats” passing biden’s gifts. He’s already talking CR and possibly Omnibus with weasel comments when questioned.
Will there even be a list published like we know McCarthy was supposed to have been held to like the J6 tapes?
Or was this all a psy-ops to get that inconvenient list to disappear?
Jordan is proving that he is tough enough and strong enough for Speaker.
He is increasing the font on all his printers to 15 point.
Austin Scott now backing Jordan…
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Rep. Austin Scott
@AustinScottGA08
I highly respect Jim Jordan. He is an asset to the Republican Party and our nominee for Speaker. Our conference has spoken, and now we must unite behind Jordan so we can get Congress back to work.
5:08 PM · Oct 13, 2023
I guess now that this guy is being highlighted for his “lucky” Wall Street trades, now he’s supporting Jim Jordan to crawl back in the shade…
Austin Scott is swamp. And GA protects and promotes swamp. He represents Middle GA, including the city of Perry / Houston County, adjacent to Robins AFB and very much a farming community. Houston County also encompasses the hometown of former GA Gov. and US Secr of AG, *Sonny Perdue; his cousin- former US Senator and Gov candidate, David Perdue; former GA speaker of the House, Larry Walker; his son, current GA State Senator Larry Walker Jr who was, as I understand it, part of the group who voted to expel Sen. Colton Moore from the GA Senate Caucus for daring to request accountability for Fani Willis. To meet these people face to face, yes they are all ‘nice’. They are personable and, for the most part, liked in their community. It doesn’t mean they are all honest or true patriots who have our country’s best interests at heart.
I can tell you that the people in this area refuse to see the corruption and refuse to acknowledge there is voter fraud (enough to change the results). Those who know ‘things ‘ain’t right’ do not speak out. Most prefer to pretend everything is okay or don’t want to confront these abusers. No doubt, other parts of the state are the same. … and thus, the problem with Georgia and plenty of other states.
*I swear I heard Pres. Trump say (at a rally) that Sonny Perdue recommended his first cousin,David Perdue, to challenge Kemp for Governor. (Vernon Jones was still in the race at the time, and I will always believe David was a designated splitter candidate to protect Kemp) I haven’t been able to find that clip… BUT right after cousin David jumped in, Sonny was running around the state with Gov Kemp, promoting his China supporting EV facilities being built on rural GA land. Sonny was lobbying Kemp to be appointed to chancellor of the University System of Georgia. It worked. He was. And Kemp easily won reelection
Sorry for the rant.. much not relevant to the specific topic, but I feel better now.
When you think its safe to go back in the water, another shark is seen. This time from the hidden-ballots state of Georgia. One often wonders if its the virus that has went to the brains of all politicians making them both rattled and conniving. Try acting like adults who care rather than greedy misfits who want only to disturb. After all, everyone knows you’re only in it for the money.
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Episode 120 LIVE: Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
Rep Rutherford is another one who never misses an opportunity to send our tax dollars to Ukraine or vote to approve any budget. He *signed the letter rebuking Gaetz and the other seven who voted to oust McCarthy for failing to live up to his commitments. He was the former Sheriff of Duval County / Jacksonville and mostly respected in the community…. BUT too many know his name and not his record. He had two primary opponents in 2022. ..both newcomers to ‘politics’ and no where near the money. And when less than 30% of registered voters bother to exercise their right to vote, much less get involved or keep informed, nothing every changes (for the good).
*https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/45-house-rinos-sign-letter-calling-8-gop/?utm_source=rss
Name for SOH pops up, I suggest check this site. Compare.
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/
And, article linked…
Trump Says Rep. Matt Gaetz Of Florida May Have Done ‘Tremendous Favor’ For Republican Party
https://www.tampafp.com/trump-says-rep-matt-gaetz-of-florida-may-favor/
So, if Scott Austin supports Jordan…and Brian Kemp can’t put another challenger from GA out there…and there are no more challengers…
Then get on with it.
Maybe that is why they shut it down for the weekend. Gives Jordan time to ballot harvest (convince hold outs).
Make next vote transparent.
No more hiding behind secret votes.
Thanks to Kevin All the RINOS in the have been exposed!
Exposure is the best we can hope for at this point. Justice, accountability, integrity, patriotism, are ancient words.
Ken Buck won’t vote for Jordan because he wants Ukraine funding.
Someone nominated DJT.
I second the motion.
Gaetz says get out to McCarthy. Scalise and Jordan supported McCarthy. McCarthy gets the boot. Scalise steps up, gets the boot. Jordan back in and supported by Gaetz, McCarthy. Jordan may not have majority votes to be elected and we’ll never know who does and doesn’t support until the final House vote, if it gets that far for Jordan.
As I write this, the image in my mind is one we have all seen on a nature program; an animal carcass on an African plain getting fought over by lions, hyenas, dogs, vultures. You all can assign whatever labels to the scavenging animals but I think we all have a real good idea whom the carcass represents.
Right!
Great analogy. I think most MAGA voters see congress as a bunch of Hyenas. All self serving liars that that work to continue Establishment Uniparty control with little regard that their decisions are driving our country into chaos.
So I hear the House is in disarray and in chaos selecting a new speaker. Now they know how we feel about their performance in congress.
We are pissed that they can’t actually focus of solving boarder, economic, energy, education, divisive issues that face our country.. They spen money and then spend more money with virtually no accountability or transparency, send billions to Ukraine and other countries with no accountability or transparency. There is just so much they don’t do and they think we MAGA people are unreasonable and even domestic terrorist.
“I think I can unite the conference. I think I can go tell the country what we’re doing and why it matters[.]”
Took him long enough.
“MTG” has been making some interesting statements since Scalise withdrew his name. Maybe she’s just following Trump’s lead, but she appears to be one of the 20 that intentionally blocked Scalise from getting the gavel.
At this point the best we can hope for is a speaker that doesn’t openly betray the American First agenda. I think Jordan might be the only option, even if he is compromised.
Late to the game on this post.
Two things I see:
1. McCarthy is SUPPORTING JORDAN. What does that say about Jordan?
2. I can’t count the number of times I’ve said outright, or alluded to (being a native long time multi-generational native), that Georgia is the most corrupt state in the nation. Chicago & Illinois, NY, CA, and yes (Dutchman) AZ don’t hold a freaking barley flickering candle to Georgia.
It’s that bad!
If everyone just knew. Or, maybe it’s best they don’t.
Question for the ages.
if not having a speaker prevents more money being poured down the forever war rathole, then i hope it goes on forever
I’m convinced this is all about preventing President Trump from getting the nomination, winning the election, and taking up residence in the White House in January 2025. Nothing else matters to the GOP establishment right now except to stop President Trump. To them the survival of the republic is secondary.
I just wrote Austin Scott using his quotes and asking him why he entered the race to muck it up more when he should just support Jordan.
I’m not in Georgia.
No speaker means no new bills. No new bills means no new federal spending. That is the only thing the Swamp, the media, the GOPe and all the rest are upset about… no new federal spending. Federal spending is the great spigot that feeds all corruption. They all want to dip their ladle in to get a taste from every spending bill that passes by.
Yes Sundance, no principle centered leadership to be found, no appropriation bills and no urgency about anything (headed home and back on Tuesday). Plenty of time all week though for Talk Radio, TV appearances and any microphones within a half mile radius.