All those people who stood by McCarthy, must be royally pissed off to see these nut jobs getting everything they want, inclulding plum committee positions in exchange for ending their opposition. I would rethink my strategy next time if I were they.
McCarthy should have gutted the nut jobs, but he did not have the guts to go to the Democrats and throw them a few bones in exchange for a few votes.
The party of George santos January 8, 2023 at 11:59 am
lol
Qupbuplicans are shitting the bed like retarded babies.
That’s what happens when you’ve been played by a bunch of extremists perverts of your own making.
You have to be one stupid piece of shit to vote GQP these days. At least they’ve sunkened down to Will Folks’ level, so he feel welcome again. It’s the party of violence-loving crooks now. Woman beaters are the norm.
CongareeCatfish Top fanJanuary 11, 2023 at 10:36 am
When this story of the Speaker election kerfuffle first emerged, my first impressions were that this was an ego/attention whore fight initiated by Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and their political kin. I found it really annoying, especially with their nomination of Jim Jordan when Jordan clearly said that he did not want it and nominated McCarthy. But then I started hearing more about how long-standing rules of the House, directed at the process of the introduction, review, and amendment of bills, the power of standing committees, and the overall spending bill writing process have been drastically changed over the last 20 years – and the fault of both the Republican and Democrat speakers for causing it. I also learned about how, for many decades, the House utilized (usually) 12 to 14 standard bills directed at major subjects (Agriculture, Defense, Energy, etc.) rather than all-encompassing omnibus spending bill monstrocities. As the last two days of the kerfuffle before the 15th vote came around, I came to realize that the 20 holdouts were at least in part standing in the gap to force the House to return to these reasonable and desperately needed long-standing rules to be re-established…and it explained why we were witnessing dialogue between the Freedom Caucus and the far-left “Squad.” They would never have anything to talk about constructively regarding the substance of legislation, but they would have common ground in the matters pertaining to House rules and processes, because the Squad had experienced its own version of the “stiff arm” from Pelosi and her allies. From the present vantage point (which of course could change with new revelations), it would seem that the Freedom Caucus holdouts demonstrated a masterful exercise of political leverage that could go a long way towards getting the House back on the right track in terms of how it runs itself – and we may actually see in future years some Democrat minority caucuses, if they exercise some intellectual honesty, giving up begrudging praise for what occurred.
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“deals were cut by McCarthy”
Deals? What deals? He gave away the whole store to the nutjobs.
All those people who stood by McCarthy, must be royally pissed off to see these nut jobs getting everything they want, inclulding plum committee positions in exchange for ending their opposition. I would rethink my strategy next time if I were they.
McCarthy should have gutted the nut jobs, but he did not have the guts to go to the Democrats and throw them a few bones in exchange for a few votes.
now lets go get hunter brandon
now its time to gut the potato n chief
Trump hasn’t been potato n chief for a couple of years now. He’s definitely getting gutted now though ;-)
Shameful. They say everyone has their price and now Ralph Norman has sold us out, too.
lol
Qupbuplicans are shitting the bed like retarded babies.
That’s what happens when you’ve been played by a bunch of extremists perverts of your own making.
You have to be one stupid piece of shit to vote GQP these days. At least they’ve sunkened down to Will Folks’ level, so he feel welcome again. It’s the party of violence-loving crooks now. Woman beaters are the norm.
When this story of the Speaker election kerfuffle first emerged, my first impressions were that this was an ego/attention whore fight initiated by Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and their political kin. I found it really annoying, especially with their nomination of Jim Jordan when Jordan clearly said that he did not want it and nominated McCarthy. But then I started hearing more about how long-standing rules of the House, directed at the process of the introduction, review, and amendment of bills, the power of standing committees, and the overall spending bill writing process have been drastically changed over the last 20 years – and the fault of both the Republican and Democrat speakers for causing it. I also learned about how, for many decades, the House utilized (usually) 12 to 14 standard bills directed at major subjects (Agriculture, Defense, Energy, etc.) rather than all-encompassing omnibus spending bill monstrocities. As the last two days of the kerfuffle before the 15th vote came around, I came to realize that the 20 holdouts were at least in part standing in the gap to force the House to return to these reasonable and desperately needed long-standing rules to be re-established…and it explained why we were witnessing dialogue between the Freedom Caucus and the far-left “Squad.” They would never have anything to talk about constructively regarding the substance of legislation, but they would have common ground in the matters pertaining to House rules and processes, because the Squad had experienced its own version of the “stiff arm” from Pelosi and her allies. From the present vantage point (which of course could change with new revelations), it would seem that the Freedom Caucus holdouts demonstrated a masterful exercise of political leverage that could go a long way towards getting the House back on the right track in terms of how it runs itself – and we may actually see in future years some Democrat minority caucuses, if they exercise some intellectual honesty, giving up begrudging praise for what occurred.