if the anti government bomb throwers are successful, it will be too late |
If McCarthy can't control them, the concessions that he's offering will make it easy for moderates to pull him down. |
Concessions mean nothing. If he’s speaker he won and he wields the power. Period. |
Being Speaker alone gives no power. His ability to whip gives him power - and right now he has no ability to whip. No power. |
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Groveling Kevin,
Nobody grovels like McCarthy. Nobody, OK? Nobody. The guy’s a losuh. He’s lost, what?, Six, seven times? He’s lost so many times I’ve lost count. Nobody’s evah seen anything like it. I was nevah a supporter. Unless he wins, then I was. Just so you understand. |
concessions would be part of a rules package, but if he doesn't have the votes, it won't pass. According to politico, he's offering chairmanships to freedom party members which isn't going over well with the members who were in line for the positions. |
As they should be, I'd be livid if I was losing a chairmanship to one of these idiots who are being rewarded for their bad behavior. They should not be rewarded. |
If 10 of them get together and refuse to vote for McCarthy unless he refuses concessions, they can block him. At this point, I'm rooting for republican chaos |
| At what point will some of the more moderate Rs withdraw support for KM for rolling over to the Freedom Caucus. They are 90% of the conference. He needs them, too. |
If he hast to give all these concessions, it shows he doesn’t have any power. One of the concessions is that just one member can move to discharge him. |
+1 Worth noting that Pelosi’s majority this past term was just as slim as the GOP’s now and they got a ton done. |
THIS. Plus, if he gives Democrats concessions, he’ll lose some Republicans. |
| McCarthy has no power to yield othe than what the terrorist caucus deign to give him. He wins absolutely nothing. He is prepared to hand away control not for the good of the country, or for the effective governance of the House, but only to be seen holding the gavel. He can’t even stop his laundry list of concessions being leaked to the media in real time. He’s being paraded through the halls of Congress naked while Gaetz and his cabal lead shouts of “shame … shame … shame.” |
But the Speaker controls what the House votes on. A sane Speaker could just tell the crazies to stuff it and put a debt ceiling vote on the floor, get all 212 Democratic votes and a handful of Republican votes. But one who is captive to the crazies will just never let that vote happen. |