I feel like I’ve been taking crazy pills… I find myself nostalgic for the “good old days” when Qevin “Utterly Spineless” McCarthy was the speaker of the House.
I picked the wrong damned lifetime to try to do without psychedelics.
Dear Gym, “The best-laid plans …”
And your plan is definitely laying there. Like a dead horse.
Today, October 3, 2024, Jim Jordan announces that he will hold a 377th vote for Speaker. In the last three rounds Jordan earned only one vote, from himself. But his vote total is expected to keep dropping as he announced he would, “I don’t know man, maybe just go for Scalise.”
What with all of the uproar and high pressure tactics and nasty infighting, no matter how this speakership battle ends, there is going to be some lasting hard feelings, even enmity, within the ranks of the House GOP.
Which I think is splendid news for the rest of us.
Welcome!
Take comfort. How do you know it is not a flashback? I know I can’t tell the difference any more.
His note apparently reads, “What is the real reason?”
As in, “I don’t believe it when my colleagues accuse me of being intransigent or a bully . . . so what can it be?”
Republicans have had 18 votes for speaker this term, and, in all but 1 round, the most votes went to Hakeem Jeffries. If the house changed the rule so that the winner was the candidate with the most votes, this would have been over with a long time ago.
JiM wiLL wiN a ResoundinG victORY over JeffrIES, whO will have BEEN an 18-tiME loser ruNNing for SpeaKer. Sad. DemonRats shOULD get wiTH the WINNers for Once. MAGA!
Kevin had 1 vertebra and he spent it funding the government and thereby losing his job. He most definitely will go down as a fairly spineless POS, but he’s earned an asterisk.
translate: HaKeem JEffrieS has LOst 18 voTes for SpeaKer.
Could it be…Satan? Treason?
Sounds fishy.
Me, I think 50 kicks to the nuts would be more persuasive…
After each vote when he’s slapped down in his bid to be elected speaker, it appears Jordan’s only response is to say, “Thank you, Sir. May I have another?” That this is his only strategy to earn the respect of those who are telling him they don’t want him says a lot about him.
In the latest sign of House chaos, the temporary speaker is threatening to quit (nbcnews.com)
WASHINGTON — In a closed-door meeting Thursday, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told GOP colleagues he might resign as speaker pro tempore if Republicans push him to try to move legislation on the floor without an explicit vote to expand his powers, according to multiple lawmakers in the room.
“If you guys try to do that, you’ll figure out who the next person on Kevin’s list is,” McHenry told the room, three sources said, referring to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s secret list of GOP lawmakers who would serve as temporary speaker in the event of a vacancy.
McHenry’s comments underscore the quandary Republicans are in: They can’t really do anything until they choose a new speaker, but they can’t agree on someone who can get the votes to be that new speaker.
And McHenry is unwilling to set a precedent that would give future temporary speakers the full power of speakers who are elected on the House floor. It could mean that the House wouldn’t need to elect speakers in the future.