Republicans don’t really want a functioning government. They just want something they can control.
Yea it’s called fascism
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Nah they have a plan, it’s an army of Kyle Rittenhouses and executive pardons for terrorism.
So if you do anything to avert a disaster of a shutdown we will try to remove you. The concessions they are asking for are crazy.
Sounds like a public admission that it’s against the GOP’s policy to work with Democrats.
It’s not against the GOPs rules, quite a bit of bi-partisan legislation has passed since Biden took office, but it is against the “Freedom Caucus” rules.
quite a bit of bi-partisan legislation has passed since Biden took office
Thank you for this. It’s good to get a bit of grounding when getting lost in the hyperbole.
Why does he look like he is straining to get a log of shit out of his ass?
In July 2023, Jackson was briefly detained by law enforcement in White Deer, Texas during a rodeo. Video of the incident showed that Jackson was attempting to assist a teenager suffering from a seizure. After being asked by a trooper to step back to allow paramedics to take over, Jackson shouted profanities at him. Jackson lunged at the trooper and was physically held back by bystanders. After Jackson pushed past officers who positioned themselves between him and the trooper, he was taken down and handcuffed. Jackson was soon uncuffed and said that he would call the governor. Jackson later spoke to Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry, with Terry reporting that Jackson demanded consequences for the deputies who handcuffed him and threatened to go after Terry politically.
What a fucking dumbass. Let me refuse to move for emergency responders and then attack a cop.
This is a bunch of hot air at best I think. They floated the idea of removing him after the deal he made earlier this year around the debt ceiling. And keep floating it every time they get upset he isnt following the most insane part of the party. The thing is, if they had the votes for a different speaker they would have removed McCarthy already. They dont, they probably dont have enough votes to even remove him, i believe you need a majority to actually remove him. So this just seems like more talk with no ability to do anything.
I agree. McCarthy knows that his own election to the post was such a shitshow that the GOP does not want to go through that drama publicly again. Going through with their threat is lose/lose and McCarthy knows it.
Do it, I want more pictures of AOC wearing a shit eating grin watching them vote over and over.
I’m just over here wanting more pics of AOC.
It’ll never happen. There aren’t enough votes for an alternative.
These people. Seriously. They agreed to the deal months ago, only to go back on the deal a month before the deal is to go into effect. It’s almost as if working with Republicans on anything is useless… Biden didn’t have to agree with them on anything. He could have instructed the treasurery department to ignore congress and continue to pay bills. But no, fool me 40 times shame on you I guess.
The thing is, the threat doesn’t actually work against moderate actions. If the Democrats get a deal done, they can promise to vote to keep McCarthy as part of the deal.
With all Democrats and McCarthy they would only need his 5 most loyal allies to vote to keep him, and obviously in reality at least 100 House members agree with McCarthy more than the Freedom Caucus fringe.
Democrats voting for a Republican Speaker.
We’re through the looking glass, people.
Adults in the room. A sad, sad room.
“inevitable, if…”
Not sure they know what inevitable means.
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Remember last January? If there’s no Speaker, the only thing the House can do is vote for a Speaker. If the vote fails to gain a majority, they do it again.
There was a photo from that mess that made my day, where AOC is in the background and has the biggest grin, just watching them eat each other.
So business as usual.
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Nothing. Literally nothing.
Business in the House of Reps cannot take place without a speaker. Their one and only function would be to hold votes until they get a new speaker. Whether that takes hours or months doesn’t matter. The only thing they can do is hold votes until a speaker is elected.
