What will the Speaker vote look like?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Texas’s Chip Roy, one of the original 19 rebels, offered this answer on the House floor yesterday: “I want the tools or I want the leadership to stop the swamp from running over the average American every single day.

I don't know about leadership, but he's certainly got a whole bunch of tools.

[George K]

Only anesthesiologists and surgeons might get this:

"Kevin McCarthy is repeatedly trying direct laryngoscopy, without using a different strategy or calling for help."

[jon-nyc]

[xenon]

What’s the difference between a newborn baby and McCarthy?

In a few months the baby will be a speaker.

[jon-nyc]

Lol

[jon-nyc]

From Nick Cataggio (aka Allahpundit):

I relish his personal embarrassment … no one in Congress save possibly Elise Stefanik has accommodated themselves to Trumpism in pursuit of power as cynically as McCarthy has. To watch him stymied and embarrassed repeatedly on the House floor by the Trump acolytes he courted at the brink of achieving his life’s ambition is justice too sweet for my weak prose to capture. We’d need a poet for the occasion.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[Jolly]

Much of the opposition boils down to spending and the fear that McCarthy will be another McConnell.

[jon-nyc]

Already a day old, but the conclusion seems inescapable.

[Jolly]

If McCarthy is sunk, then next guy up is Scalia?

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly Scalise seems most likely to me.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Much of the opposition boils down to spending and the fear that McCarthy will be another McConnell.

If the Republicans absolutely need somebody with a 'Mc' in their name, maybe picking somebody Scottish rather than Irish would allow a bit more fiscal responsibility. The Scots aren't exactly known for their spendthrift ways.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

@Jolly Scalise seems most likely to me.

You're right. Sorry for the misspelling. I'm not through the first mug yet...

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly I figured it was a typo or autocorrect

[Mik]

@George-K said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Only anesthesiologists and surgeons might get this:

"Kevin McCarthy is repeatedly trying direct laryngoscopy, without using a different strategy or calling for help."

I get it.

[George K]

Nancy speaks:

Dave Rubin comments: "Sit down"

[jon-nyc]

This seems comically absurd. How could he possibly accept this? Imagine the constant opportunity for any single representative to grandstand and blow up the house?

Mr. McCarthy privately agreed to more demands from the right-wing rebels that he had previously refused to countenance, including allowing a single lawmaker to force a snap vote at any time to oust him from the speakership, according to three people familiar with the negotiations who described them on the condition of anonymity, noting that they were ongoing and that no final deal had been reached.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

This seems comically absurd.

I was going to post about the caving concessions. But, you're right. It's just stupid.

[jon-nyc]