Democrats Find McHenry More Palatable Than Jordan, But Wait For Republicans To Make First Move

As House Democrats streamed out of their Thursday caucus meeting, they made two things clear: Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) does not repulse them the same way Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) does, and they are content waiting for Republicans to detail what exactly empowering McHenry would look like.


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though Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that Ukraine aid is non-negotiable.

“Aid to Ukraine has got to be part of this,” he said, adding: “If our votes are needed, we’re going to be substantively involved in the definition of what the agenda is.”

Excellent

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“Their conference is filled with narcissists who only give a shit about themselves,” McGovern said. “They don’t really care about this country or what’s going on in the world.”

Needs to be tattooed on the forehead of every bothsider “journalist” in America.

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Donalds: ‘The Resolution Is Dead’
“The resolution is dead. We don’t have support in our conference for it,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) told reporters.

“We cannot just drop powers in the lap of somebody,” he said.

When asked if Dems might support the resolution, he said he thinks that Democratic support would make it more dead in the GOP conference.

Fine… Zero Democratic votes for a republican speaker…

Full stop.

A temporary rule change for a weak, fake Speaker, is all that should be on potential offer

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The Hangover III was a mistake, but you know they HAD TO MAKE IT.

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Someone ought to get him a bigger gavel so he looks even smaller.

(Just being snarky about that performance closing the session after qevin was booted)

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Perfect gift to explain the Speaker votes… :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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It the MAGAs relentless tedium that is both their superpower and their Achilles heel.

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Help from democrats is not allowed. So MSM can stop trying to pin this circus on Democrats

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Edit: Sadly:

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And Jimmy’s candidacy for the Speakership marches on…

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A Roomba can size up a room, navigate obstacles, own the floor and clean up. Jim Jordan can’t.

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The Family and the Organization need to evict the folks on the 45th, 21st and 63rd floors pronto.

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Oh I think that the Spooks are glad to have them all handy and easy to monitor.

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Another bitter loss for compact, scrappy 5’5" 134 lb future congressman Jim Jordan.

  • Jim Jordan 1988 Wrestling Match - Olympic Trial Defeat

Another bitter loss for compact, scrappy 5’5" 134 lb future congressman Jim Jordan.

  • Jim Jordan … goes to law school … never ever even tries to pass the bar exam …

Another bitter loss for compact, scrappy 5’5" 134 lb future congressman Jim Jordan.

  • Jim Jordan … wrestling coach - witnesses sexual molestation of wrestlers that he coaches - but cannot summon up the ethical courage to tell the truth and defend them because he fears it might cost him career opportunities

Another bitter loss for compact, scrappy 5’5" … 1?? lb congressman Jim Jordan.

  • loses vote to become Speaker - twice … retreats to lick wounds
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I guarantee that desk deals mostly with Americans

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