Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?
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Looks like the Dems will not step in to "save" McCarthy. It will be up to the Republicans to decide whether they want McCarthy to continue as Speaker.
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Have to wonder: What is Gaetz's end game here?
More concessions? A run at speakership? Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker?
It reminds me of the dog that finally catches the car: "NOW what am I going to do with it?"
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Gaetz called for the motion to vacate because McCarthy had recruited Dem votes for the Continuing Resolution. In order to vacate, Gaetz voted along with over 200 Democrats. That may not be irony, but it’s something…
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A dozen firebrands can run the Republican caucus but they can’t run the house. Where do they think this leads?
@jon-nyc said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
A dozen firebrands can run the Republican caucus but they can’t run the house. Where do they think this leads?
More skillfully described than my question.
I assume this won't be on your bookshelf, right @jon-nyc ?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said before the vote that Democrats "are ready to find bipartisan common ground. Our extreme colleagues have shown no willingness to do the same.
And then he voted with the 11 extremists to vacate the moderate Speaker that was willing to compromise. There’s more of that non-irony again.
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From the RWEC:
"Who was it who said of the Palestinians that they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? You could say the same of the Republican Party. Then there is the adage, attributed to Napoleon, that you should never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake. The Republicans violated that one today, too...
Once again, Republicans with no plan and no strategy for success have given the Democrats a badly-needed win."
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Because the Democrats think that this open up a chance, tiny as it may be, for a Democrat to be elected Speaker?
Because the Democrats hold grudges, justified or not, for whatever problems McCarthy gave them whilst Speaker?
Because the Democrats believe they will have more leverage to negotiate a better with whoever running for Speakership from the Republican side?
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@jon-nyc said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
A dozen firebrands can run the Republican caucus but they can’t run the house. Where do they think this leads?
More skillfully described than my question.
I assume this won't be on your bookshelf, right @jon-nyc ?
@George-K said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
@jon-nyc said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
A dozen firebrands can run the Republican caucus but they can’t run the house. Where do they think this leads?
More skillfully described than my question.
But yours is more to the point.
I assume this won't be on your bookshelf, right @jon-nyc ?
Not unless there’s another toilet paper shortage.
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Ax asked the following:
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Will McCarthy be vacated from Speakership?
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If so, who do you think will be the next Speaker of the House?
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(Whom would like to see as the Speaker of the House of not McCarthy?)
Jolly responded:
- No
- N/A
- Mickey Mouse
So you think Mickey has a chance now?
Elbows up!
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So, now what?
Will the GOP vote in favor of anyone whom the Democrats propose? Of course not.
Who has enough, for lack of a better word, "juice" in the GOP to win a vote? And if there is such a person, how many times
will he have to give Gaetz a blowjobwill he compromise to keep the speakership? -
It's really interesting to see the reactions from the RWEC.
"Thus, the so-called Freedom Caucus — which didn’t say much when Donald Trump spent like Barack Obama — claimed McCarthy made them promises he didn’t keep and insisted that something must be done. …"
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Have to wonder: What is Gaetz's end game here?
More concessions? A run at speakership? Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker?
It reminds me of the dog that finally catches the car: "NOW what am I going to do with it?"
@George-K said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
It reminds me of the dog that finally catches the car: "NOW what am I going to do with it?"
Drive it across State lines for unspecified purposes, presumably.
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@George-K said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
McCarthy says he won't run for speaker again.
Who can blame him?
He seems to have wanted that job for a long time.
Now, not only he had the job, he also made history with it.
As the first Speaker of the House to be vacated.
Down the history books he goes.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kevin-mccarthy-says-wont-run-house-speaker-rcna118611
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It's really interesting to see the reactions from the RWEC.
"Thus, the so-called Freedom Caucus — which didn’t say much when Donald Trump spent like Barack Obama — claimed McCarthy made them promises he didn’t keep and insisted that something must be done. …"
@George-K said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
It's really interesting to see the reactions from the RWEC.
"Thus, the so-called Freedom Caucus — which didn’t say much when Donald Trump spent like Barack Obama — claimed McCarthy made them promises he didn’t keep and insisted that something must be done. …"
It seems to me that the Freedom Caucus does not so much want its voice heard and taken into account but rather, insists that its voice and subsequent commands be obeyed without question.
