Are we witnessing the death of the Republican Party?
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The only reason forehead was able to bring this about was because of the concessions McCarthy made to him in order to get their fringe votes for the role in the first place.
...of the fringe voters that elected these nutjobs who want to hold wacky races instead of you know, govern
They just want to cause chaos and blame someone else for it.
wstching mccarthy's news conference....
in january he asked pelosi for advice on the rule change to let one person bring it to the floor....she said do it...i got your back...
ghosted....
iTs TeH dEmZ!
Last week Marge was saying that Trump wouldn't have abandoned the Afghanis like Joe did.
crazy enough she didn't vote to oust him
McCarthy specifically met her demands iirc
all you can smoke meth buffet?
article headline on CNN right now:
Rumors are that they could ‘theoretically’ nominate Trump as speaker. Can’t imagine this could be true?
I don't believe there's actually any requirement that they be a member of Congress.
What Would The Founding Fathers Think?
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that's been the Qanon plan (heh, silly me, that would be THE PLAN™) since the failed attempt to overthrow the election
Actually, I very much support this PLAN. I mean, just for the fucking LULZ.
there's nothing that legally prohibits it
Next Republican Candidate: CHAMACO
Yes?
Let the record show that today, the 10 most patriotic, conservative, American Jesus loving Republicans in the house voted the same way as every single Democrat
Am I totally put of my gourd thinking the Democrats may have accidentally fucked us all here? Suppose we end up with a speaker far worse than McCarthy, or no Speaker at all, what exactly do we do in November when funding runs out again? Gunna have to go read up on it, but it would seem that things when from bad, to a whole lot worse. Not that it's their fault exactly, but it did sorta fall precisely into team MAGA's hands and short of getting their base to understand that government shutdowns are not actually a good thing I don't see how they don't choose the nuclear option.
You new?
It's pretty much in their charter.
Maybe not but definitely still generally. We need an opposition party to wackjob fascism. Instead we get this shitlib lot.
PRECISELY why we need a Stable Genius like Trump to hold the position for the next shutdown, he will fix it!
Usually I can at least see the through line in what they’re up to, even if it’s not what I want them to be doing, this just makes no sense and is still seemingly being celebrated as a win.
I gotta go back to avoiding the news, life was better that way.
This is why Ramaswami is my guy, he wants to fire the whole government, can’t shut it down if it’s already shut down. Big brain politics.
not that shit againOn a practical level, he's seemingly going to be spending most of the next year in court, so it's almost like they haven't completely thought this through.
i think one thing this has really demonstrated is that most of the house GOP is gonna have to play ball with the dems when they nominate a new speaker. because the GQP has shown they will do this, they're gonna have to have dem support for whoever they eventually nominate, otherwise the lunatic fringe will do this all over again.
At least now they are taking the opportunity to take things seriously and get to governing.
Can't remember which news show was talking about that before the vote yesterday, but they pretty much said they'll struggle to be much worse:
McCarthy:
- kicked dems off committees for no reason other than they didn't like them
- santioned dems for stating the truth
- started the impeachment nonsense against Biden
- tried to clear the two impeachments of mango off the record
- Didn't stick to his word on the budget he agreed with Biden, so we had last weeks debacle
i mean, the GOP's unwillingness to kick out the GQP is really what opened the door to all this
Saw that and made me wonder why not go all the way with the lunacy and elect Marjorie Taylor Green to Speaker of the House.