💣 The Disastrous 118th Congress - MAGA Mike Johnson Saved by Shadow Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
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A conservative vision for the American people? The one we keep rejecting?
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Should
replace "jumping the shark" as a metaphor for irretrievable degradation?Orlylicious wrote:When you've lost Mr. Turd…
But it appears that (is this a proverb?) even a stopped turd is right twice a lifetime:
and:catturd wrote:These cocky narcissists hate you.
You got there in the end, dumbass. Shame everybody else had to suffer.catturd wrote:They're garbage people.
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Mike Johnson for Speaker.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Conservative exosphere.
Lots of lies in there.
Lots of lies in there.
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Mike Johnson for speaking bullshit.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end . . .
So do our minutes hasten to their end . . .
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House Republicans push unity ‘pledge’ to guarantee a speaker
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/2 ... s-00122884
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/2 ... s-00122884
A majority of the House Republicans vying for the speakership signed a pledge Saturday aimed at saving the GOP’s next pick from the vote-counting trap that sank Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan’s bids.
Seven lawmakers have launched campaigns for the gavel ahead of a Sunday deadline, as House Republicans scramble — yet again — to select their new speaker, nearly three weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the top post. And five of the announced candidates have committed in writing to a plot to ensure the next speaker-designate can rally 217 votes on the floor.
The device: A simple two-paragraph pledge, spearheaded by Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.), to vote “yea” on the floor for whoever wins the House Republican conference’s backing in the initial secret-ballot election scheduled for Tuesday. To pick up more commitments, Flood is organizing a bloc of Republicans to withhold support from candidates unless they press their backers to sign the pledge.
Support for the strategy built rapidly Saturday, with signatures from speakership candidates Reps. Austin Scott (Ga.), Mike Johnson (La.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jack Bergman (Mich.) and Kevin Hern (Okla.), chair of the Republican Study Committee.
Reps. Byron Donalds (Fla.) and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (Minn.) are the only announced candidates who have not yet indicated support for the pledge. And allies of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are urging opposition.
Russ Vought, who was White House budget director under former president Donald Trump, called it “a ridiculous letter” and “cartel government away from the floor.”
Lawmakers have until Sunday at noon to make their candidacy official before a Monday night candidate forum and a GOP Conference vote Tuesday morning.
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Republicans asking their colleagues to act for (their) collective good?
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McCarthy is on Meet the Press after the break.
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Did he blame the Democrats again?
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Pelosi got zero GOP votes for Speaker for the last 2 times she was elected. Of course, the blame on the Dems is meant for their base who do bother doing their own research.
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Yabbut that election of Pelosi — callously ignoring unified Republican opposition — just shows how the Democrats won't work in a bipartisan way, the devils!northland10 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:33 pm Pelosi got zero GOP votes for Speaker for the last 2 times she was elected. Of course, the blame on the Dems is meant for their base who do bother doing their own research.
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More complete BS, blaming Pelosi and Jeffries. And Gaetz, but only because the "Democrats went along with him."
Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah wrote: Kristen Welker pushes back on McCarthy blaming Democrats for his ouster, "Does this not come down to Matt Gaetz moving to oust you and, do you bear some responsibility for this for agreeing to give him the deal in the first place to be able to remove you with just one vote?"
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Still like that, votes being taken in the lifeboats.Atticus Finch wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:53 pm It is like electing the officer in charge of deck chairs on the Titanic.
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You don't have to consent, but I'm gonna tase you anyway.
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I am happy to have been wrong that Republicans would vote lockstep and we would end up with Jordan. But I'm still terrified at who might end up Speaker.
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Nine declared candidates. All but two voted against certifying Biden’s win.
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He claimed there was always a House rule that 1 member can bring a vote to vacate the speaker to the floor, except when Nancy Pelosi changed it.
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Don't read too much into Scott...he may not have voted against certification [after the insurrection mind you], but he did sign on to Texas v Pennsylvania...raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:40 pm Nine declared candidates. All but two voted against certifying Biden’s win.
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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The nine: Jack Bergman, Byron Donalds, Tom Emmer, Kevin Hern, Mike Johnson, Dan Meuser, Gary Palmer, Austin Scott, and Pete Sessions.
Emmer is being pushed by McCarthy, reportedly.
Emmer is being pushed by McCarthy, reportedly.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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I'm wondering if the Democrats should switch tactics and all vote for Emmer,* essentially daring five Republicans to publicly vote for him.
* Presumably the least of multiple evils.
* Presumably the least of multiple evils.
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I read that only two of them didn't vote to overturn the election. Was Emmer one of them?
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He was.Reality Check wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:23 pmI read that only two of them didn't vote to overturn the election. Was Emmer one of them?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 286754007/At the time, Emmer said Congress "does not have the authority" to disregard state electoral results.
“Doing so sets a precedent that I believe undermines the state-based system of elections that defines our Republic,” he said.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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I found this also, too:
https://x.com/AlisonR61423986/status/17 ... 34947?s=20
Emmer looks like the best of a group of stinkers.
Maybe putting Emmer over the top is a thought. Seems to me the Democrats have power here they should be able to wield in some way other than just letting the Republicans look inept. I hope someone on their side has been talking over the weekend.
https://x.com/AlisonR61423986/status/17 ... 34947?s=20
Emmer looks like the best of a group of stinkers.
Maybe putting Emmer over the top is a thought. Seems to me the Democrats have power here they should be able to wield in some way other than just letting the Republicans look inept. I hope someone on their side has been talking over the weekend.