Anonymous wrote:So what makes today different from yesterday and Tuesday?

Now it's Thursday,. so that is different.

Anonymous wrote:A handful of Dems could vote for McCarthy, then freeze the nutcases out of committees.

Why would democrats vote for McCarthy? He was a Trump enabler. I guess they should find a Trumper who came on for better health care, better borders, and the other working-class parts of the Trump platform that were never crazy and who is not nuts, and work with the 20 to elect him/her speaker.

Anonymous wrote:This will go on until Fox and Friends decide Beavis and Boebert are more of a problem than entertainment

Beavis is actually supporting McCarthy. It's more like Boebert and Butt-head.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1348828325041434626

Anonymous wrote:The House is just embarrassing. The GOP are garbage people who hate government and don’t want it to work at all.

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A handful of Dems could vote for McCarthy, then freeze the nutcases out of committees.

What is between McCarthy and Luntz?

This will go on until Fox and Friends decide Beavis and Boebert are more of a problem than entertainment, or until they miss their first paycheck. They are the smaller group and will cave to Kevin, who has no intention of backing down. Christ, he’s already moved into the office. He’s not backing down. He will be a weak Speaker but he was always going to be.

There is NOTHING Dems can or should do. GOP broke it, they buy it.
We have a functioning Senate and competent President. The govt is funded till Oct. The Congress has zero intention of governing.

Anonymous wrote:So what makes today different from yesterday and Tuesday?

Kevin’s had more time to debase himself. That’s pretty much it.

So what makes today different from yesterday and Tuesday?

The House is just embarrassing. The GOP are garbage people who hate government and don’t want it to work at all.

The humiliation of Kevin McGarbage by his equally repugnant fellow insurrection apologists is glorious .

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Anonymous wrote:So this was all about money? The Russian funds must really be drying up.

Told y’all it was all FAKE. But everyone laps up this fake nonsense all year. Reality tv for dorks.

It’s not fake if the whole reason that the 20 R members against McCarthy are pissed is because he’s directing dark money towards more normal Rs so there won’t be more crazy Rs voting against McCarthy.

In the end, the outcome is the outcome we all knew it would be. All this hemming and hawing is fake theater. A pointless charade.

It’s not anywhere near a fait accompli. We’re it so they’d be voting tonight. The problem is two-fold: (1) Kevin can’t get 218 votes and (2) there seems to be no other Republican who can get 218 votes without Democratic support.

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Yes but he will have to agree to all the concessions McCarthy has agreed to…maybe he will last a month.

The Speaker will be very weak. Just do not see how they will get anything done.

^ But there is no Speaker, PP, so there are no Questions. We're in no man's land until we have a Speaker.

Democrats need to study up on using Questions of the Privileges of the House:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44005/12

A question of the privileges of the House is a formal declaration by a Member of the House asserting that a situation has arisen affecting “the rights of the House collectively, its safety, dignity and the integrity of its proceedings.” Once a question of the privileges of the House is raised, the Speaker must, at some point, entertain the question and rule on its validity. The Speaker makes such a ruling with guidance from the House Parliamentarian based on House rule and precedent. If it is ruled to be valid, a question of the privileges of the House will be considered and possibly voted on by the House.

Questions recognized as valid comprise several categories, such as:
* questions related to the organization of the House and the rights of Members to their seats or leadership positions,
* questions related to the House’s constitutional prerogatives, such as their power to originate revenue legislation,
* questions related to the conduct of Members, officers, and employees of the House,
* questions related to the integrity of the legislative process, both in committee and on the House floor, and
* questions related to the comfort, convenience, and safety of Members.