Net result from this election
The Trump party got Trumpier
Things are going to get ugly fast
This would be a great epitaph for any number of them:
He was not the only Republican leader with baggage.
I’m confused—wasn’t McCarthy once the threat from the Right? And, is anyone really challenging Pelosi? This seems like the typical “both sides are…” mixed with “Dems in disarray” wire service piece. What does it take to get a simple “GOP in disarray with infighting among hard Right reps” when that seems to be the case.
Great. Hope they cannibalize one another. The better to knock them out next round. (Apologies for mixing metaphors)
Ugh. Liz Cheney wants the number 3 spot. I wondered when she’d slither to the forefront. Watch that one. Bad news.
“Are you going to elect the same people who lost the election, or are you going to elect someone new?” asked Adam Brandon, president of the conservative group FreedomWorks, which announced its support Thursday for Jordan.
I’m not a fan of McCarthy, but it seems a little silly to blame him for the loss. They all had a hand in it, and the Freedom Caucus was a big part of it. (The biggest was Dear Leader, but no one is going to say that out loud.
Yes.
And the thing is, to be elected Speaker, traditionally you need a majority of at least 218 votes.
Suppose we have 230 Democrats in the House. If just 13 of them withhold support for Pelosi, they can, at a minimum, extract concessions or embarrass her by denying her a first-ballot victory.
In other words, what she’s trying to lock down right now is more than just a simple majority of Democratic votes.
Trump, of course, has said he’ll get her some Republican votes if she needs them. You can evaluate his motivation separately from his ability to deliver.
The GOP motto: “We eat our own!”
Kev baby, you just need to start a Benghazi investigation! I mean, you did so and admitted to it during the 2016 election, so you gotta remember to pull out the greatest hits in order to keep the slighly less cultivated Nazis of your party at bay.
Have an ice cream.
Kevin McCarthy is a dim bulb (read: dumbbell) and getting dimmer.
Liz Cheney is the spawn of Dick and Lynne Cheney, the Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu of American politics.
Current Occupant is only willing to help Pelosi because she has played down impeachment. He figures anyone else is going hit the ground running in January.
He’s only interested in saving his own hide and suffers momentarily under the delusion that Nancy will protect him…
Please let it be Jordan. God, I can’t imagine a better outcome than Jorbambi vs. Nanzilla in the house.
From the right? McCarthy is somehow a racist who is married to a discriminated Cherokee, a misopedist who campaigned against children’s healthcare (and CHIP specifically) his entire 14 years in Congress while having a daughter who battled Lyme disease, a water and air “champion” with the worst air in America, toxified soils, colony collapse and groundwater subsidence on his district, a philanderer with such dull sex habits that nobody gets aroused, a nepotist portrayed as the Pentagon’s bacon-delivery boy, and the same “My Kevin” who accepted Trump’s embrace but still gets portrayed as rational. He is the dream political simulacrum of the right that keeps on giving (or did until Wednesday). I think this is more a case of GOP Young Gun Fatigue or YGF.
That’s odd, because, when I look at Liz Cheney, I think number two.