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The Democrats voting against tabling is free money. ("The People deserve an up-or-down vote!") Especially if McCarthy wasn't offering anything.Reality Check wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:52 pm The motion to table failed 218 to 208 with 11 Republicans voting nay. They are now debating the resolution to vacate the Office of Speaker. If this split holds on the actual vote McCarthy is brunt toast. However it is not a given that the vote to vacate will match this vote.
Yes, I meant to mention that. In Parliament in the UK to "lay upon the table" means to bring the matter to the House immediately and vote on it. While in the US Congress to table means the opposite. I was confused by this during all the Brexit votes.Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:11 pm As an aside, that use of "table" is a weird US thing because everywhere outside the US, tabling a motion means exactly the opposite - that they are going to start considering it. That's what I thought the articles were talking about and I was really confused.
Politico:
I presume the Acting Speaker will, well, act, until a permanent speaker is selected.The speaker pro tempore is imbued with all the powers of an elected speaker of the House. McCarthy hand-picked McHenry (R-N.C.) for this role when he was elected speaker in January. The pro tempore is kept as a secret, held by the clerk of the House, until a speaker is removed or incapacitated, a process designed after Sept. 11, 2001, to ensure continuity of government.
W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 12:00 am Welcome, Monsieur, come join the clowns
And meet the best ringleader in town
As for the reps, all of them crooks:
Who got their seats by cooking the books
Seldom do you see
Crooked men like me
A gent of ill intent
Who's content to be
Speaker of the house, doling out the chairs
Ready with a handshake and some put on airs
Tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir
Constituents appreciate a good old slur
Owe the Freedom Caucus some favors
It'd cost me to be nice
‘Cause nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
Speaker of the house, keeper of the zoo
Going to have to throw to them a bone or two
Pandering their whines, carrying their weight
Punishing the queers and anyone who isn’t straight
When you’re a spineless leader
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't they bleed me in the end!
Speaker of the house, witless little slime
To get the spot they had to vote all of fourteen times
Servant to Boebert, butler to Matt Gaetz
Beholden to a party full of lifelong hate!
Everybody's boon companion
Everybody's whipping boy
Here they come with their valises
Jesus! Won't they skin you to the bone!
Bills beyond compare
Bills beyond belief
Nix the regs and make them wonder where’s the beef
Tax cuts in due course, add a little fat
Making of the sausages with tit for tat
Whackjobs are more than welcome
Wall street is occupied
Racking up those charges
Plus, some little extras on the side!
(Oh Santos!)
Charge 'em all the fees, extra as you please
Two percent for armoring up the damn police (Hand it over!)
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percenters want to pull the purse strings shut
When it comes to these deficits
There are a lot of tricks he knows
How it all increases, all those bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!
I used to dream of a Saudi prince
But God Almighty, have you seen what's happened since?
Speaker of the house? Boebert’s little bitch!
Couldn’t hold a candle to that turtle Mitch!
Cunning little brain, useless little twit
Thinks he's quite a leader but he’s got no wit
What a cruel trick of nature landed us with such a louse
God knows how we’ll keep her living with this creeper in the house!
Speaker of the house!
Speaker and a half!
Confronter, party leader
Don't make me laugh!
Servant to Boebert, butler to Matt Gaetz
Hypocrite and toady and inebriate!
Everybody bless the leader!
Everybody bless this house!
Everybody raise a glass
Raise it up the Speaker’s ass
Everybody raise a glass to the Speaker of the House!
Me too. If he's replaced it will be by a hardliner. I could be missing something or not thinking clearly, but I don't see the benefit to Democrats to get an even worse right winger as House Leader.
I'm going to take the over on no new Speaker being elected until 2025.
That's a different situation. At the start of each session, a Speaker must be elected, and the rules voted on, before any other business may proceed.
The Dems owed Kevin NOTHING. He reneged on deals almost before the ink was dry, he ran to Trump to grovel after first condemning him for Jan 6, he pushed a sham impeachment, and he is as MAGA as Gaetz and others of his ilk. As I understand, the Dems were offered no concessions for their votes. I'm thrilled that they stood in solidarity and voted him down. Admire the leadership of Rep. Jeffries.
So let's get this Bloodbath started!
