Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 18:23 last edited by jon-nyc
I think they’ll end up giving full speaker power to the pro-tem guy, without actually electing him speaker.
It’s sort of like the budget, they can’t pass one, so they do ‘continuing resolutions’. Now they bring that concept to house leadership itself.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 18:28 last edited by
McCarthy was close to and appointed that pro-tem guy, so it will be a lot like a continuance of McCarthy's speakership. And once given power, the pro-tem guy may have even freer rein to compromise with the Dems because he's not gunning for real Speakership and thus not as beholden to the moron caucus.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 18:32 last edited by jon-nyc
John Boehner received a vote in this last tally. Lol. That’s a great ‘fuck you’ to Jordan, recall Boehner once called Jordan a ‘legislative terrorist’.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 23:09 last edited by
Interesting piece about how limping along with McHenry might work, written by a former staffer to Speaker Boehner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/opinion/patrick-mchenry-interim-speaker-powers.html
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 23:16 last edited by Jolly
I ain't skeered...
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wrote on 19 Oct 2023, 16:07 last edited by
Jordan gives up his effort - wants to enable McHenry to be Speaker Pro-tem.
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 01:57 last edited by Axtremus
The pro tempore guy Rep. McHenry is threatening to quit if the House GOP pressures him to move legislation without explicitly voting to expand the pro tempore's powers.
I don't blame him. It would be chicken shit of the House GOP if they force the pro tempore to move legislation without having the courage to vote to give the pro tempore that power.
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 02:10 last edited by
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 18:18 last edited by
Jim Jordan gets the axe from his caucus.
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 18:22 last edited by jon-nyc
There wasn’t even another name considered. Literally a majority of the conference just voted for him to drop out of the race.
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 18:41 last edited by Renauda
Howard Cosell mode/
Down goes Jordan! Down goes Jordan!
/Howard Cosell mode
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wrote on 20 Oct 2023, 21:22 last edited by
Best comment:
GOP Moderates to Jordan: Who's the squish now???
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wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 01:33 last edited by
LOL
Gaetz, who led the charge against McCarthy, blamed “the swamp” for Jordan’s defeat. “The most popular Republican in the United States Congress was just knifed by a secret ballot, in a private meeting, in the basement of the Capitol,” he told reporters. “It’s as swampy as swamp gets,
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wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 02:16 last edited by
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wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 11:19 last edited by
At this point, every outcome is as likely as any other,” former Rep. Peter Meijer, a Michigan Republican who’s considering a Senate bid, told The Dispatch on Friday. “Might as well just start throwing a 222-sided die and keep holding votes round and round until January 3, 2025.”
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LOL
Gaetz, who led the charge against McCarthy, blamed “the swamp” for Jordan’s defeat. “The most popular Republican in the United States Congress was just knifed by a secret ballot, in a private meeting, in the basement of the Capitol,” he told reporters. “It’s as swampy as swamp gets,
wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 11:28 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
LOL
Gaetz, who led the charge against McCarthy, blamed “the swamp” for Jordan’s defeat. “The most popular Republican in the United States Congress was just knifed by a secret ballot, in a private meeting, in the basement of the Capitol,” he told reporters. “It’s as swampy as swamp gets,
If that guy's the most popular Republican, imagine how hated the rest of them must be.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 13:36 last edited by
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wrote on 22 Oct 2023, 04:02 last edited by jon-nyc
@Jolly said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
I ain't skeered...
Perhaps but you’ve offered no opinion since the majority of the GOP conference told Jordan to fuck off already.
What’s your response to yet another Trump pick losing? And not just in a general but among elected Republicans!?
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@Jolly said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
I ain't skeered...
Perhaps but you’ve offered no opinion since the majority of the GOP conference told Jordan to fuck off already.
What’s your response to yet another Trump pick losing? And not just in a general but among elected Republicans!?
wrote on 22 Oct 2023, 12:52 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
@Jolly said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:
I ain't skeered...
Perhaps but you’ve offered no opinion since the majority of the GOP conference told Jordan to fuck off already.
What’s your response to yet another Trump pick losing? And not just in a general but among elected Republicans!?
Machts nix.
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wrote on 22 Oct 2023, 13:24 last edited by
