Speakership Fight Sinks Further As Jordan Opponents Report Threats – TPM – Talking Points Memo

This is his play acting the statesman. Oh, the monumental vanity.

Yet I get the feeling we must be mindful of our leader’s willingness to educate us.

Trace this iPhone and the call and arrest this clown for communicating a threat.

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Yeccccch! Patty McHenry is a tea party freak whose district was gerrymandered to look something like an octopus to get him elected.

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“I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side, but you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt. It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home at peace.”

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Boy - so many leopards who didn’t think their faces would ever be eaten in evidence this morning thanks to Gym, Hannity, Trump, and Bannon.

Best reality show ever!

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Jesus is an odd figure to invoke when talking about Jim Jordan, who looks at all times like he’s ready to give someone a wedgie. But it makes a dark sense within the topsy-turvy world of MAGA politics, and not just because of the hope they can revive Jordan’s speakership from the dead.

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They are in a controlled media environment that rewards fidelity with righteousness.

They’re like most humans: the lights are on, but just the porch.

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In my view, there are 3 MUSTS before Democrats should agree to provide any support for any Republican Speaker including giving McHenery power to be more like a Speaker.

  1. Most importantly a vote on Biden’s proposal that he will present tonight that includes aid for Ukraine.
  2. As importantly a vote on a 2024 budget that is in accordance with the agreement then Speaker McCarthy made with Joe Biden.
  3. Having a vote on continuing or ending the impeachment embarrassment led by Jim Jordan.

I mean we should expect and accept that Republicans, being in the majority, will behave like Republicans. We should not tolerate them being traitors and insurrectionists.

Noting that doing all of these things would be good politics for Republicans because they are good policies, will help America, and just as importantly for Republicans free them from the control and otherwise trivialize deplorables Jim Jordan champions.

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He is done.

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Don’t know, but I know where he belongs.

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Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! I know this one!

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Hopefully Dems. won’t be snookered into helping the scorpion to cross the river.

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That’s disappointing.

I was hoping for a third round of Jordan humiliation today.

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He’s only sorry they didn’t work.

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Word seems to be that Jordan is doing this so he can claim to still be running for the job and avoid being labeled a loser. Don’t think that will help much but TFG has been sticking to that tactic so I guess it’s mostly okay with the base.

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Yup, just trying to save face and avoid further humiliation. He is done.

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Not a basket, It more like

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Another GOP member of congress reports death threats. Jordan’s Maga fans thinks this is just fine. It is hard to put the genie back into the bottle.

DREW FERGUSON said he got death threats after voting for scalise.

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With Sidney Powell pleading guilty and agreeing to testify for Ms. Fani Willis and likely Mr. Jack Smith, Jungle Gym has bigger issues to address - like staying out of the Big House. He was a key link between Trump and the insurrectionists on the Hill on Jan. 6th. In these matters, there are no coincidences.

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Hey Jim, are you calling Hannity abhorrent? He says the targets should stop being snowflakes.

No American should accost another for their beliefs.

We condemn all threats against our colleagues and it is imperative that we come together.

Stop. It’s abhorrent.

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