Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday poked fun at Republicans, citing a character from the comedy television series The Office following the news that Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was dropping his bid for Speaker of the House.
“I think somewhere in House rules it allows the acting Speaker Pro Tempore to do the Michael Scott ‘I declare bankruptcy’ thing and just give Dems the gavel,” Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, referring the popular show. “That’s probably what’s best for everyone at this point.”
Seriously. Any republicans that would vote for Hakeem wouldn’t have to caucus with the dems. What the GOP are afraid of is the bills brought to the floor that they’d expose themselves voting against. They want a GOP speaker so those bills never reach the floor, providing cover for them.
“I think somewhere in House rules it allows the acting Speaker Pro Tempore to do the Michael Scott ‘I declare bankruptcy’ thing and just give Dems the gavel,” Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, referring the popular show. “That’s probably what’s best for everyone at this point.”
Santos has expressed frustrations with the Speaker race and said he would vote for “anybody,” but Scalise after a lack of communication from the prospective Speaker.
AOC isn’t wrong. They have work to do. This playtime needs to come to an end.
In an ideal, good faith world, the speaker should be of the minority party more often than not. A show of unity, cooperation, and a check on the majority’s power. Especially when it’s so close to 50/50.
Of course, that world doesn’t exist.
They will, in 2024.
Exactly zero Republicans, let alone six, will vote for Jeffries. This has no teeth.
AOC for President
Exactly that’s is very good IDEE 🙏
It’s not like republicans were able to accomplish anything with it.
This would at least let the government stay open. Either pick a speaker, or give it to the dems.
I dont think giving republicans sound advice is mocking…
I think that guy broke it though
They only need a handful of defectors.
If American voters were actually paying attention they would see that the only functional party right now are Dems and that they need to be given complete control of the government.
By Dems kicking out McCarthy they just solidified a government shutdown
Give to daddy. That’s not a toy.
Just give the gavel to Bernie!!!
You’re gonna need some republicans to go “welp. It was fun…time to retire I guess”
Aka: Let the grownups in the room govern.
I don’t mind AOC’s mocking… except they use it in their own propaganda for “look at how mean Democrats are, we’ll never join them!”
AOC channeling Tommy Lister Jr.: You don’t want to die, but you don’t know how to take a life. Give it to me; these men would kill you, and take it anyway. Give it to me. You can tell ’em I took it by force. Give it to me, and I’ll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago.
She’s such an idiot
Not so much mocking, simply making an objective observation
Agreed, if this was about being suited to actually govern in good faith. But it’s not.. this is the seditious GOP paralyzing our Govt and Military during a time of global war, where our allies in the ME and NATO are depending on America having their backs.
The Republican Party are aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States of America.
It’s a brilliant idea, because they just want to run against the government anyway. Can’t be in charge then.
Hey AOC, how about a few Dems actually exhibiting the bipartisan approach they all claim to aspire to. Respect the countries election of a GOP majority and support a candidate from the GOP.
And then go on record about your support of Palestine, and then we can watch you get voted out of office. You know, democracy at work.
The GOP let wolves into the chicken coop and are now surprised there are guts and feathers everywhere.
GOP plan is to keep government at a standstill.
To Be Honest – TBH it’s not like the GOP knows What the F***! 🤬 they’re doing anyway
Giving dems the gavel just saves gop more embarrassment at attempting to actually do ANY work
What we need are adults running things, not representatives sniping at each other like children. Gotcha politics doesn’t help anyone.
I legit don’t understand why we wouldn’t want a non-partisan speaker. That role should represent the branch as a whole, not the majority party. A nonpartisan speaker should work with both sides for the benefit of the people.
Republicans, just do the right thing and proud vote Hakeen. Signed, a proud American. gracias <3
Aoc not a serious person.
Needs to be rules in place if one party can’t find a speaker after a certain amount of days they all have to go vote on someone at random and whoever gets the most votes gets the job. Or any rule in general. Republicans continue to prove none of them are fit to run a country much less a Taco Bell.
It looks like republicans prefer to be the minority anyway where all they have to do is complain instead of actually getting stuff done.
Without resorting to the “there are no good Republicans “ trope, isn’t there one Republican secure in their seat that the majority could put forward; someone the Democrats can work with?
Grab a beer and popcorn. Just let the GOP implode and eject enough of them to flip the majority. Then the GOP can go back to blaming the dems for everything.
That would actually be brilliant payback.
Aoc is so dumb
“That’s pretty funny.” Said George Santos before adding, “I wrote that exact same joke while working at SNL in 1982.”
Seriously, GOP states need to look these members who seem to be acting like foreign operatives and remove them if they keep using weaponized incompetence to harm the nation. That’s what this is.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday poked fun at Republicans, citing a character from the comedy television series The Office following the news that Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was dropping his bid for Speaker of the House.
“I think somewhere in House rules it allows the acting Speaker Pro Tempore to do the Michael Scott ‘I declare bankruptcy’ thing and just give Dems the gavel,” Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, referring the popular show. “That’s probably what’s best for everyone at this point.”
Seriously. Any republicans that would vote for Hakeem wouldn’t have to caucus with the dems. What the GOP are afraid of is the bills brought to the floor that they’d expose themselves voting against. They want a GOP speaker so those bills never reach the floor, providing cover for them.
“I think somewhere in House rules it allows the acting Speaker Pro Tempore to do the Michael Scott ‘I declare bankruptcy’ thing and just give Dems the gavel,” Ocasio-Cortez posted to X, referring the popular show. “That’s probably what’s best for everyone at this point.”
Santos has expressed frustrations with the Speaker race and said he would vote for “anybody,” but Scalise after a lack of communication from the prospective Speaker.
AOC isn’t wrong. They have work to do. This playtime needs to come to an end.
In an ideal, good faith world, the speaker should be of the minority party more often than not. A show of unity, cooperation, and a check on the majority’s power. Especially when it’s so close to 50/50.
Of course, that world doesn’t exist.
They will, in 2024.
Exactly zero Republicans, let alone six, will vote for Jeffries. This has no teeth.
AOC for President
Exactly that’s is very good IDEE 🙏
It’s not like republicans were able to accomplish anything with it.
This would at least let the government stay open. Either pick a speaker, or give it to the dems.
I dont think giving republicans sound advice is mocking…
I think that guy broke it though
They only need a handful of defectors.
If American voters were actually paying attention they would see that the only functional party right now are Dems and that they need to be given complete control of the government.
By Dems kicking out McCarthy they just solidified a government shutdown
Give to daddy. That’s not a toy.
Just give the gavel to Bernie!!!
You’re gonna need some republicans to go “welp. It was fun…time to retire I guess”
Aka: Let the grownups in the room govern.
I don’t mind AOC’s mocking… except they use it in their own propaganda for “look at how mean Democrats are, we’ll never join them!”
AOC channeling Tommy Lister Jr.: You don’t want to die, but you don’t know how to take a life. Give it to me; these men would kill you, and take it anyway. Give it to me. You can tell ’em I took it by force. Give it to me, and I’ll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago.
She’s such an idiot
Not so much mocking, simply making an objective observation
Agreed, if this was about being suited to actually govern in good faith. But it’s not.. this is the seditious GOP paralyzing our Govt and Military during a time of global war, where our allies in the ME and NATO are depending on America having their backs.
The Republican Party are aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States of America.
It’s a brilliant idea, because they just want to run against the government anyway. Can’t be in charge then.
Hey AOC, how about a few Dems actually exhibiting the bipartisan approach they all claim to aspire to. Respect the countries election of a GOP majority and support a candidate from the GOP.
And then go on record about your support of Palestine, and then we can watch you get voted out of office. You know, democracy at work.
The GOP let wolves into the chicken coop and are now surprised there are guts and feathers everywhere.
GOP plan is to keep government at a standstill.
To Be Honest – TBH it’s not like the GOP knows What the F***! 🤬 they’re doing anyway
Giving dems the gavel just saves gop more embarrassment at attempting to actually do ANY work
What we need are adults running things, not representatives sniping at each other like children. Gotcha politics doesn’t help anyone.
I legit don’t understand why we wouldn’t want a non-partisan speaker. That role should represent the branch as a whole, not the majority party. A nonpartisan speaker should work with both sides for the benefit of the people.
Republicans, just do the right thing and proud vote Hakeen. Signed, a proud American. gracias <3
Aoc not a serious person.
Needs to be rules in place if one party can’t find a speaker after a certain amount of days they all have to go vote on someone at random and whoever gets the most votes gets the job. Or any rule in general. Republicans continue to prove none of them are fit to run a country much less a Taco Bell.
It looks like republicans prefer to be the minority anyway where all they have to do is complain instead of actually getting stuff done.
Without resorting to the “there are no good Republicans “ trope, isn’t there one Republican secure in their seat that the majority could put forward; someone the Democrats can work with?
Grab a beer and popcorn. Just let the GOP implode and eject enough of them to flip the majority. Then the GOP can go back to blaming the dems for everything.
That would actually be brilliant payback.
Aoc is so dumb
“That’s pretty funny.” Said George Santos before adding, “I wrote that exact same joke while working at SNL in 1982.”
Seriously, GOP states need to look these members who seem to be acting like foreign operatives and remove them if they keep using weaponized incompetence to harm the nation. That’s what this is.