I honestly thought he’d get emphatic and unanimous support from that crowd.
This ‘limboness’ is actually the desired state for many in the GOP conference. It’s effectively a Govt shutdown as NO legislation can pass.
it doesn’t seem like the GOP has any way to get together short of total capitulation by the so called moderates which I think will happen over the weekend.
What a shit show. In the Senate we’ve got some back woods yahoo knee capping the military during a time of international crisis, another GOP stooge holding up ambassador nominations to the Middle East, and then we’ve got this shit show in the House.
The GOP can’t govern. Period. They are arsonists, he’ll bent in destroying the government (that is unless it involves poking their nose in other people’s bedrooms, and telling women how to manage their health care).
Ooh ooh ooh. They all dress up in Halloween costumes and they pick the scariest costume as House speaker!
No, bad plan. There are too many scary Republicans and it would probably be a tie between Gaetz and MTG.
Nothing’s shocking.
I wish these idiots would play their stupid games with someone else’s country.
I know it’s crazy for them to think of, but do you think some could side with the ~~Abolitionist~~ leftists?
Why, in the name of all that is good, are the democrats ***NOT*** campaigning on and blasting this farce on high? The GOP has demonstrated they cannot govern at any level and all they want to do is metaphorically and literally burn down the government. This is a huge opportunity for the left and democrats to make inroads and they’re sitting on their hands. Again.
Putin demanded this
So…what’s the endgame here?
It is hard to come together when one of your top issues is the use of pronouns.
Elect clowns, get a circus.
>Republicans fail to coalesce around speaker choice, leaving House in limbo
That’s what happens when their propaganda has made Democrats the enemy of the people in the eyes of their extremist base and thus working with Democrats to govern is now seen by their extremist base as treason!
Otherwise if would be pretty easy for the majority of the Republican caucus to ignore the crazies and make a deal with the Democrats. There are more than enough sane people in the House on both sides to comfortably elect a consensus speaker.
I am shocked. shocked I tell you. Truly.
How many republicans need to flip to put Hakeem in? Lots of the are in swing districts and some are retiring too. The idea has to be in their mind seeing as they’re probably the most intelligent of republicans, not saying much. But they make choose country over party. Especially regarding the pressure that’s coming their way.
I hope this ruins their 2024 chances but I won’t hold my breath
Isn’t that the goal?
Wow, we all predicted this a year ago. I thought it may be a bit of an exaggeration. But I’ll be damned if every single thing we thought would happen, happened. Inquiries, debt ceiling drama, all of it. Only thing that got a rain check was a gov shutdown. But we knew Mccarthy couldn’t herd these cats. At this point, I doubt anyone could.
This clown show is going to remove their majority entirely
And here I thought they picked the no baggage KKK Wizard… or was it the locker room abuse enabler…man I can’t keep it straight any more. Might as well call in the Jewish space lazer to handle this.
Who could have seen this coming? Huge shock
House Republicans, right now: “We don’t need the Democratic minority, why should we give them anything?”
Also House Republicans: “We don’t even need the GOP majority!”
Both of them election deniers.
A government shutdown of different magnitude.
Turns out Republicans are even bigger losers than anyone thought.
They’ll will deny their swing to towards fascism despite the fact they check all the boxes and we are now at the stage where they’re eating each other while blaming it on Democrats for the GOP’s dysfunction.
We all saw this coming from a long way off.
Reality if you want the house to run work with the Democrats and abandon the MAGA idiots and freedom caucus.
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Republicans are failures at every level. They cannot govern, and should dissolve as a party.
I read that as “House in lmao,” at first. But I think it’s still apt.
The only huge surprise here is that Republicans aren’t salivating at having a house speaker who [keynotes at KKK rallies](https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/democrats-demand-answers-steve-scalises-ties-david-duke-msna494966) and calls himself [“David Duke without the baggage.”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/03/steve-scalise-house-speaker-republicans)
I honestly thought he’d get emphatic and unanimous support from that crowd.
This ‘limboness’ is actually the desired state for many in the GOP conference. It’s effectively a Govt shutdown as NO legislation can pass.
it doesn’t seem like the GOP has any way to get together short of total capitulation by the so called moderates which I think will happen over the weekend.
What a shit show. In the Senate we’ve got some back woods yahoo knee capping the military during a time of international crisis, another GOP stooge holding up ambassador nominations to the Middle East, and then we’ve got this shit show in the House.
The GOP can’t govern. Period. They are arsonists, he’ll bent in destroying the government (that is unless it involves poking their nose in other people’s bedrooms, and telling women how to manage their health care).
Ooh ooh ooh. They all dress up in Halloween costumes and they pick the scariest costume as House speaker!
No, bad plan. There are too many scary Republicans and it would probably be a tie between Gaetz and MTG.
Nothing’s shocking.
I wish these idiots would play their stupid games with someone else’s country.
I know it’s crazy for them to think of, but do you think some could side with the ~~Abolitionist~~ leftists?
Why, in the name of all that is good, are the democrats ***NOT*** campaigning on and blasting this farce on high? The GOP has demonstrated they cannot govern at any level and all they want to do is metaphorically and literally burn down the government. This is a huge opportunity for the left and democrats to make inroads and they’re sitting on their hands. Again.
Putin demanded this
So…what’s the endgame here?
It is hard to come together when one of your top issues is the use of pronouns.
Elect clowns, get a circus.
>Republicans fail to coalesce around speaker choice, leaving House in limbo
That’s what happens when their propaganda has made Democrats the enemy of the people in the eyes of their extremist base and thus working with Democrats to govern is now seen by their extremist base as treason!
Otherwise if would be pretty easy for the majority of the Republican caucus to ignore the crazies and make a deal with the Democrats. There are more than enough sane people in the House on both sides to comfortably elect a consensus speaker.
I am shocked. shocked I tell you. Truly.
How many republicans need to flip to put Hakeem in? Lots of the are in swing districts and some are retiring too. The idea has to be in their mind seeing as they’re probably the most intelligent of republicans, not saying much. But they make choose country over party. Especially regarding the pressure that’s coming their way.
I hope this ruins their 2024 chances but I won’t hold my breath
Isn’t that the goal?
Wow, we all predicted this a year ago. I thought it may be a bit of an exaggeration. But I’ll be damned if every single thing we thought would happen, happened. Inquiries, debt ceiling drama, all of it. Only thing that got a rain check was a gov shutdown. But we knew Mccarthy couldn’t herd these cats. At this point, I doubt anyone could.
This clown show is going to remove their majority entirely
And here I thought they picked the no baggage KKK Wizard… or was it the locker room abuse enabler…man I can’t keep it straight any more. Might as well call in the Jewish space lazer to handle this.
Who could have seen this coming? Huge shock
House Republicans, right now: “We don’t need the Democratic minority, why should we give them anything?”
Also House Republicans: “We don’t even need the GOP majority!”
Both of them election deniers.
A government shutdown of different magnitude.
Turns out Republicans are even bigger losers than anyone thought.
They’ll will deny their swing to towards fascism despite the fact they check all the boxes and we are now at the stage where they’re eating each other while blaming it on Democrats for the GOP’s dysfunction.
We all saw this coming from a long way off.
Reality if you want the house to run work with the Democrats and abandon the MAGA idiots and freedom caucus.