The Big Ugly battle over control of the Republican Party in Congress was always going to be big and ugly. We are witnessing the professional Republican apparatus fight hard to retain the UniParty business model that affords them all the affluence and indulgence they are accustomed to.
By now we well understand the nature of the DC political system as a business model. Factually, that’s why congressional candidates spend millions to take a job earning a few hundred thousand. The business of DC political life is filled with background payments to politicians, family and friends. The business of DC politics provides a life of affluence that is disconnected from most understanding.
Jim Jordan lost his third effort to secure the House Speaker role in a floor vote earlier today. Following the floor vote, the Republican Caucus held a closed-door meeting and another secret ballot to determine if Jordan should continue. When they didn’t have to put their names in front of the public for scrutiny, 122 professional members of the Republican Party voted against Jordan, with only 86 votes in support of Jordan continuing. Jim Jordan from Ohio is done.
Within the voting and the turmoil, we see the axiom bell ring true. Democrats want power, Republicans want money. Democrats use money to get power, Republicans use power to get money. Democrat donors support ideology. Republican politicians chase donor money. This is the essential difference in the two wings of the UniParty apparatus.
♦ What becomes visible…. Threaten the power of Democrats, and you receive the weaponization of government. Threaten the money of Republicans, and you get this Big Ugly outcome. That’s what we are witnessing.
On the positive side, with each passing example more American voters are starting to understand the nature of the UniParty apparatus. Within this painful understanding you find the reason why support for Donald J. Trump grows. Trump threatens the Democrat power structure; so, they weaponize the full weight of government against him (Main Justice, FBI, IC, FISA, the works). However, Trump also threatens the Republican structure of affluence; so, we see them step aside and willfully watch the weaponization of government against their common enemy. That’s also what we are witnessing.
WASHINGTON DC – In a shocking turn, Jim Jordan on Friday lost an internal GOP vote that was intended to show confidence in him remaining as his party’s speaker designee.
The Ohio Republican is now no longer his party’s pick to lead the House, a demise sealed by a GOP secret ballot just after his third failed floor vote as a speaker hopeful.
It was an unexpectedly fast end to the Ohio conservative’s candidacy to lead the chaos-ridden Republican conference — and a sign that the flailing party is fed up on its 17th day without a speaker. Lawmakers now plan to leave Washington for the weekend as the next round of ambitious Republicans decide whether to mount their own speaker bids.
But most Republicans acknowledge that even with new faces to consider, they still have no clear path to uniting their splintered conference. They have already rejected two speaker candidates — Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise — as well as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy during this month alone.
McCarthy gave voice to a sentiment that’s growing within the GOP: The party’s inability to run the half of Congress that it narrowly won doesn’t bode well for its broader future.
“I’m concerned about where we go from here,” said McCarthy, who had been backing Jordan. “It’s astonishing to me, and we are in a very bad position as a party.”
Jordan’s loss of the speaker nod from his party came as something of a surprise, since he had sought the internal vote with allies preparing to cite it as a show of continued support for his candidacy. Instead, the secret ballot revealed that while Jordan’s public opposition never topped 25 votes, scores more House Republicans wanted to see him out of the race.
[…] In all, 122 Republicans voted to boot Jordan as their party’s nominee, while 86 said he should remain their choice, according to two people familiar with the private discussions. Five members voted present. (read more)
Wall Street, the multinational corporations, the billionaire donors, the people who control the ‘illusion of choice’ mechanisms within the Republican Party apparatus, are all smiling. Meanwhile, Main Street USA is once again furious. But remember, the Wall Street group just doesn’t care. As long as they retain full control over the puppets in DC, including at least 122 Republicans in the House, the multinationals are happy.
The Big Ugly battle continues.
It’s a BIG CLUB, and we ain’t in it…. YET!
Let’s be honest here. There aren’t 213 democrats in the house, there are closer to 245. McCarthy was no more the actual speaker than I am and that 75 IQ houseni**er Jeffries isn’t the actual minority leader. Pelosi may have symbolically given up the gavel but that was about it. The Botoxed Biddy By The Bay still runs that place with a malformed iron claw with a RINO 5th column’s help.
We fear you are …
Spot on.
Well…. Father time is fast gaining on her.
Still think the R party is looking out for you. Nothing changes until the R party is gone and a Patriot new party is formed. Think that is absurd look your options. Continue as things are or do something that will kill the Uniparty. Fixed R election is just like the Dems and the Rinos that voted against Jordan were given a an election pass.
More Demonrats than 245….remember, Jordan wanted a blind vote taken on keeping him in the running just a day ago, 120+ voted him out, 80 some odd wanted to keep him, so his candidacy was done for speaker……that vote let us all know how really bad it is in congress….it’s bad, and getting worse…..need a grassroots effort at the state level to put a choke hold on the whole cabal….very difficult, but do-able.
Primarying them does not work. Lisa Murkowski has lost two primaries and she is still there. McConnell put money into her campaign even as he ignored Buldoc and Masters. Remember Judge Roy Moore? He defeated the Establushment candidate so McConnell helped the Wash Post destroy him. They play hardball against the voters they despise because they assume these voters will choose them over the Democrat. And they are right. I dared post a few weeks ago that maybe MAGA will have had enough of this and got rudely attacked by one of the most prolific posters here.
I remember, and was very sad at the bad news. Honestly, I think this was isolated…. I am thinking if conservatives across the country (MAGA) mobilize and coordinate, we can do some damage to the cabal….we have to start throwing 4 seam fastballs and not hanging curves….they are playing for keeps, we need to adopt the same policy, coordinate and mobilize, this can happen. Remember one thing to our advantage, McConnel is on his way out, regardless of what happens, he is spent…..
Remember how the petty, small vindictive harpy Pelosi got Houseni**er Hakeem to hand over the gavel? That was to show everyone that she never relinquished it.
Believe Elise Stefanik is the only current member who can win the 217 votes to become speaker. She’d have President Trump’s endorsement. And even in districts Biden won, Rinos would be afraid of eliciting the ire of soccer moms by voting against her.
Rep pay has been 174K since 2010. Thought surely there must be a substantial housing allowance for congressmen. For instance, tax free BAH(basic allowance for housing) is a major component of military members pay in high cost areas such as DC; in the Capitol’s zip code(20515), BAH can range from over 100% of Basic Pay for lower ranking enlisted members to about 1/3 of Basic Pay for general officers…
https://militarypay.defense.gov/calculators/rmc-calculator/
….but cannot find any housing allowance mentioned in “Congressional Salaries And Allowances: In Brief”…
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL30064.pdf
Byron Donaldson. RINOs will never publicly vote against a black man. And then we get a Freedom Caucus speaker. He’s great. I’ve been hoping for him as VP. Also using the race card to our advantage, another plus.
Cough…his name is Rep. Byron Donalds.
But you are right on all the other points.
she may be a possible choice, hasn’t been there long, neither has Donalds, that’s his big problem, along with being part of the freedom caucus
All politics are local, based on that, I agree she’s got a punchers chance of getting through…. 🙂
Maybe this nonsense is the beginning of the process to “lose” the House to the Dems, thereby creating road blocks for PDJT?
McCarthy is backing Jordan is BS gamesmanship. More likely McCarthy and his cronies are conspiring.
McCarthy new the outcome before it occurred…with the help of Scalise I might add…. snake in the grass, both of them.
Whoever the speaker might be, Gaetz has to demand the same stipulations as he did with McCarthy.
Or, just vote against them all. Get what you want or it’s nothing for no one. Play hardball, just how Dem do it.
Apparently they hate each other as much as we hate them.
Personally, as a life long voting Republican, after 50 years of casting faithful votes, I’m really wishing there was a viable third party. Something resembling the original Tea Party before the NEOCON’s took it over too.
I refused to vote for Romney and wrote in Dr. Ron Paul in 2012. My wife and I won’t vote to the likes of a Romney. The majority of Republicans are a pathetic bunch and the lust for power is repulsive. They are are as a whole a bunch of non-Christian politico’s with little to offer.
We had a chance when DJT won in 2016 and the Uni-party made sure that chance evaporated.
God knows what we’re now in for and it may please Him for it to be a time of chastisement like we’ve never experienced before.
The system is designed by the UniParty to minimize third parties. The Libertarian Party is the third-largest party, and has been around for 50 years. Yet in national contests it only reaches 1% of the vote.
My better half and I have the same problem as you except 43 years of votes. That said, I dropped the R, so did my wife, I can’t be associated with the derelicts in the republican party any longer. A third party may be the answer… the MAGA party perhaps? We’ll see…..if a conservative is running against Bacon, and at least one of my US senators, I’ll add the R long enough to vote in the primary then switch back to an I right after the primary. fortunately, state senators are part of a unicameral, no R’s or D’s
Witness now what Matt Gaetz has childishly wrought. At least under McCarthy, the Freedom Caucus was the anchor to windward. Now thanks to Gaetz’s ouster of McCarthy, not only are we adrift, we are three sheets to the wind going only where we will be tossed. Whoever here thinks McCarthy’s ouster was a good thing is living in a fantasy world of delirium. We have lost the house we at least were in control of, and Republicans are looking like the Keystone Cops to the American public. At a critical time in the run-up to the election and given what is happening to Israel we can’t rule in the House, the only instance where we have a majority. All of the critical committees looking into Biden and the Deep State are stalled.
This is the messy House that Gaetz made.
Puts, You are foolish if you believe this. We will never be satisfied to lick the hand that feeds us. What’s the point of having McCarthy if we get nothing of what we want and business as usual continues under republican control. Gaetz was right in what he did. Throw sand in the wheels whenever you can. We can never be satisfied with status quo when status quo is Shiite.
First of all, it’s Putt. You can’t get anything done unless you are in power. Sticking to your so-called principles would leave us powerless while the Dems rule and the deep state keeps getting deeper and bigger. So glad you aren’t a person of any influence.
Don’t abused partners say the same thing? “If I hadn’t burned dinner, he wouldn’t have beat me up?”
GOP voters are abused wives. If we’d only let McCarthy keep betraying us we’d be okay. “That damned Gaetz shouldn’t have called the cops just because he heard screaming”.
Who said insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Sure they look like a confederacy of dunces because they ARE a confeceracy of dunces. But they are willing to immolate themselves to keep the Uniparty happy.
This is not OUR party.
They have put down every rebellion from Tea Party to undermining and sabotaging Trump to deliberately losing 2018 and 2022 rather than allow MAGA victory to Charlie McCarthy.
What to do? Who knows? I sure don’t. I just observe.
Don’t know what to make of this scramble of words. The one thing I know is that if we aren’t in power, as we should be, we have no chance. So, like so many others here, be the purist if you want, but I wouldn’t want you leading me into battle.
Is this the Na Nanny Na Na response for the fact that now we are nowhere?
The republican party is nowhere and for a long time hasn’t been anywhere near what its constituents want. So overall, the only ones that will suffer the consequences will the party faithful. America First is not part of the party’s agenda. MAGA will live on even as the republican party self destructs.
We were nowhere under McCarthy, anyway. May as well drag it all out into the light. Hiding and pretending to get along is useless.
Give them NO MONEY, ZERO!
What good is power if it does not help one achieve his goals. This is the problem with McCarthy the man would not even try to put up road blocks to Bidan. That only laws he passed were dead on arrival passed so he could look like he was not doing nothing. He sure as hell wasn’t fighting to stop the dems. I see no speaker as a huge improvement over McCarthy but perhaps your standards are just so low that you would rather have a somebody pretend to fight. Personally I judge a tree by its fruits. Based on what McCarthy was putting out the man should have been cut down a long time ago.
Putt don’t be a putz!
We cannot stand still.
There is no more go along to get along.
you’re an idiot.
They are not going to show us the truth about Jan 6 no matter how bad the country gets destroyed!
The piece of 💩 GOP
congressmen traitors are now denigrating Jordan. They don’t like getting eviscerated by We the People. This is unlikely to deter our remarks about these reptilian, ho-bag, Soros-funded 🦏🦏🦏 s.
May they roast 🔥 in Hades with the 👹.
The names of these fools/traitors need to be hung over overpasses, on buildings, etc. all over our cities. This should at least be advertised — billboard size– in major cities whatever these 💩heads live.
People need to picket with signs identifying these traitors and the lobbyists who fund them (include names & faces).
MAGA 🇺🇲💕
RINOs are Sleeper Democrats.
Good Description…..
Not all Republicans are Democrats but no Democrats are Republicans.
Even better description…..You and Ocean should have a beer or two and work on some good one liners to use…..be surprised how well a catch phrase can take you home.
I love that picture of President Trump.
I love the smell of fresh air after a spec op!
Having read the letter from the eight to the Conference, the idea of the arsonists, now being cast as “victims” is truly demshevik like.
Excellent article – fully explains the morass America is in. My two cents : You can’t vote your way out of this – near everything is rigged now. America has become like IL or NY.
My breakfast crowd has adopted the democrats tactics, there is no one (NO ONE) who wants any other speaker than Jordon. They are united on this more than any other subject. They vary in attendance, but for a group with that diversity things do not bode well for our congressman next election.
Large rally against John James near his office in Michigan October 24th.
Same thing needs to occur in each of these sellout whores home districts. Pound the drum. Rally against these Anti American POS oligarch worshippers.
List their donors and their affiliations. Shine a light on who their true masters are and to whom they show allegiance.
🇺🇲MAGA🇺🇲 or 💩👹?
Who do these bastards support?!
Quite frankly, Jordan needed to come back and back and back – somewhat like the guy we disliked! We would have known he was the fighter who deserved Trump’s endorsement.
Never give up ~ Trump