Deplorables searching for new Speaker

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

What an awful read. Are things really that bad?

Doesn't look pretty to me. The GOP house members have lost their marbles, in the middle of a crisis. We'll see if they can elect a speaker in the next few days. The Suicide Freedumb Caucus is in the driver's seat is how it looks to me.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

What an awful read. Are things really that bad?

When your overriding concern is campaigning to remain in office there's little time for legislating and governing.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Here's my problem with Cheney and Kinzinger...their House voting records...

Voted with Trump on House bills...
Cheney 92.9%*
Kinzinger 90.2%*

My evaluation...both scum. The fact that they went against him in the Jan 6th hearings doesn't rectify anything...acting decent for once doesn’t make up for their voting records.

*Per Nate Silver

I'm OK with them being conservatives. I'm not OK with the rest of them being fascists though.

[Rajoo]

Fight between KKK faction and MAGA faction in the Repugnant House, no winners or mediators. Scalise won the preliminary vote over Gym Jordan but will not get enough votes to get elected Speaker, ultimate insult being that Santos is refusing to vote for Scalise.

Republicans opposing Scalise cite several reasons: what they say is the lack of a plan to fund the government, no plan to change how Washington works, anger that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) lost the job and opposition to giving the next person in line a promotion.

How can anyone compromise on these grievances?
Hey, how about voting in McCarthy again?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-speaker-vote/

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I'm OK with them being conservatives. I'm not OK with the rest of them being fascists though.

I haven't picked apart the specific voting records of Cheney or Kinsinger, although the latter was the Rep from the district just north of mine, and that his reputation is "moderate" and that his district may be majority Democratic.

Anyway...my opinion remains that if one's voting record hugely favors a fascist chief executive, one is legitimately identifiable as a fascist. Just my humble clinical opinion.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I haven't picked apart the specific voting records of Cheney or Kinsinger, although the latter was the Rep from the district just north of mine, and that his reputation is "moderate" and that his district may be majority Democratic.

Anyway...my opinion remains that if one's voting record hugely favors a fascist chief executive, one is legitimately identifiable as a fascist. Just my humble clinical opinion.

“I wasn't courageous I was just surrounded by cowards.”

- Adam Kinzinger

[bobabode]

Just a day after being nominated for House Speaker by the Republican Party, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has withdrawn his name from consideration, leaving the GOP's path forward to elect House leadership uncertain, CNN reported on Thursday.
https://www.rawstory.com/scalise-dro...4HK4I#cxrecs_s

DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!!!!

[RickeyM]

Clearing the way for tRump? If he is nominated which Repub has the guts to vote against him?

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Clearing the way for tRump? If he is nominated which Repub has the guts to vote against him?

Point I raised in the other thread before reading yours. If Trump says yes, its a done deal.