McCarthy Puts Speakership On The Line With Quick Vote On Mutiny

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This is going to be days and days of entertainment that will ultimately leave the Republican party (such as it is) in shambles. We are watching one of the two national parties break up before our eyes.

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If McCarthy, who previously voiced strong support for aid to Ukraine, flipping on the issue does not allow him to keep the title “Speaker of the House”, then why did he do it?

While MTG is the leader of the Putin Caucus, Matt Gaetz is clearly a member. So it is likely there will not be enough votes to ouster McCarthy from the Putin Caucus alone. The question is will the rest of the Republicans do what they have always done, fall in line or not.

I predict all Republicans not in the bought off Putin Caucus, will do what they have always done and fall in line behind the Putin Caucus.

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Also, McCarthy approved subcommittees holding Biden impeachment hearings without a prerequisite House vote. This seems to be not working to Reps advantage.

ETA: I need a proofreader

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Time for the proverbial put-up-or-shut-up.

This could be fun.

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Actually the idiot made his exit to slowly. I’m sure the PMO helped him decide.

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And this is a bad thing?

ETA. Perhaps from the rubble a group of from the center right, does that exist, who believe in governance will emerge. I doubt it tho.

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Cooperating isn’t giving in.

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Generally speaking he is right. Let’s see how he feels in a week. This is the result of the Republicans failure to secure a red wave in 2022. They took a very slim majority without the leadership having the tools and skill to keep that slim majority in line. This was a term for the Republicans to reflect and rebuild but that requires real grown up leadership. There is none in the Republican Congressional membership or among the billionaire libertarians who fund the Republican party. The Republican party deserves to go the way of the Whigs.

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Yes, but at the same time, there’s Ukrainian funding and the November CR/Budget to be worked on. This is a distraction that isn’t going to help either effort.

And it won’t be any better later either.

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No it isn’t. Let’s just get on with it so the country can begin recovery.

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A quick run-down of coverage and placement.

Front page, either lead or second story
NPR
MSNBC
CNN
Reuters
The New York Times
The Washington Post
BBC
Axios
Politico
US News and World Report
The Wall Street Journal

Front page, third story
Aj-Jazeera

Front page off of the National Politics fold
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (shout-out to my hometown paper)

Way, way, way, way, way down the scroll of the front page, beneath the third banner advertisement and behind the stories on Vanna White, the head coach of the Giants, some Ohio Senate candidate arguing for reparations for white people, how “throwing away your garbage could lead to some costly consequences,” and how the surgeon general of Florida is calling the new Covid vaccine “anti-human” because of course
FoxNews

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Darned fool doesn’t know we’ve already seen the whites of his eyes and the white flag flying above him.

The surrender is imminent.

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He reminds me of Wile E. Coyote (“Suuuuper Genius!”) having walked off the cliff but not yet having looked down…

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MYbe he’s had enough being speaker?

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: “Let them wallow in their pigsty of incompetence.”

I love her. That is all.

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This is great news for John McCain.

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‘Our government is designed to have compromise but look we’re in the majority,” McCarthy told reporters. “You don’t surrender.”’

McCarthy: Goverment is designed to have compromise but we won’t do that.

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