A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
While it couldn’t manage to elect a speaker, the new GOP majority in the House did manage to remove immediately the magnetometers installed at the entrances to the chamber after the Jan. 6 attack:
First. The metal detector thing really bothers me. A whole lot to digest in that Morning Memo. How does today’s news top yesterday?
The first thing we do is we put every life here at risk.
Oh goody Boebert can now haul her RPG into the House chamber. That’ll surely maker her more comfy.
If I were a visitor to DC the House chamber would be off my bucket list
I don’t know. I think I hear the sound of wing tips being carefully polished.
While it couldn’t manage to elect a speaker, the new GOP majority in the House did manage to remove immediately the magnetometers installed at the entrances to the chamber after the Jan. 6 attack:
What hasn’t yet been explained to me is how the GQP could order anything, when there’s no House business before the Speaker is elected.
After he failed on three separate votes to win the speakership yesterday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will try again today when the House reconvenes at noon.
As I wrote elsewhere this morning, the approach won’t change. McQ won’t be able to step away because of his ego, his narcissism, and his perception that he’s owed this chair. Each ballot will get progressively worse for him. We could get to double-digit ballots.
Gaetz Trolls McCarthy
For once, Gaetz isn’t wrong. I appreciate that he at least asked the question, rather than hiring his own goons to empty the room and throw the contents out on the street.
On any other first day of Congress, George Santos would have been the lead story. But as Kevin McCarthy foundered, Santos struggled to break through
I suspect, as soon as Santos has outlived his usefulness, he will be summarily dismissed and never heard from again. The GQP has made it quite clear, Santos is only there for the vote. If Santos had any chutzpah at all, he would start voting for Jeffries because Santos has no future in the House, no matter what happens next.
Still Pouring Through The Jan. 6 Committee’s Work
Isn’t it ‘Poring Through’???
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verb study, read, examine, go over, contemplate, ponder, brood, dwell on, work over, scrutinize, peruse We spent whole afternoons poring over travel brochures.
The only new news is that Special Counsel Jack Smith has returned to the U.S. from the Hague.
Let the games begin…
Don’t know if I’m first, but eh…
Two excellent mockings of McCarthy. While the mockin’s easy to do, it isn’t easy to do…perfectly.
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McCarthy was overheard preparing his roll call for the fourth round.
“I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists.”
Blazing Saddles, anyone?
But no Irish…
We need to know who ordered the metal detectors removed. STAT.
A legal gent who posts here posits 1/13 as the day an indictment arrives for fat donnie. It’d help my faith in justice.
Serious question – are guns specifically banned from the Chamber? If yes, then what’s the reason for removing the detectors? If no, holy wow. The Reps can brandish weapons?
That is one of the weakest performances Jomboy’s ever done. If your heart’s not into it don’t do it, dude. But I guess you need those clicks huh.
Thanks to Jonathan Lord for pointing out that under all this circus, real harm is being done. His focus is on exec oversight and national security related functions, but more broadly, we have no functional legislature right now. If something disastrous were to happen—god forbid—Congress is currently unequipped to handle it. Real people could suffer because GOP ungovernability is holding the entire country hostage.
(Now, you say, some of this will be true even when they pick a speaker. You’re not wrong, but at least the processes will be up and running even if they’re running poorly.)
Matt Gaetz’s little letter there is funny until you remember it’s coming from Matt Gaetz.
Still Pouring Through The Jan. 6 Committee’s Work
Grammar, how does it work?
As I offered an RPG would not now be out of place in the House chamber
I’ll wait for others to answer but will cheekily add that the Repubs don’t need guns to shoot themselves in the d***.
TFG’s choice to sit out the Speaker battle makes me wonder if he sees this mess as good for him or if he doesn’t see a solution that benefits him. It also suggests to me that KMac has been so busy kissing the butts of the extremists in his caucus that he hasn’t had time to give Donnie the adulation he craves.
Hell’s Bells! I thought the goobers proved that yesterday.
performative absolutism regarding the second half of the 2nd Amendment. These are the people who scream “COMMUNISM” whenever a municipality tries to ban guns in government buildings.
