This is an absolute clusterfuck and totally on brand for the GQP.
What an absolute joke the Republican Party is
Well, that lasted about .03 Scaramuccis.
Jesus H. Christ! He lasted only a few hours!
The lettuce never even made it home from the store on this one.
If you spend 40 to 50 years whipping your constituents into a frenzy about how bad compromise with Democrats is, I guess sort of dysfunction is what you get.
Freedom Caucus is going to accept no one else but a Freedom Caucus member as Speaker at this point.
Tom Emmer really just did the Abe Simpson meme.
Absolute fucking circus
I nominate this inanimate carbon rod!
This is called “winning”, folks.
What a fucking joke.
Looks like Trump still holds some sway, no matter how much ass-kissing a contender must engage in.
I know this whole situation is bad for the country, but I can’t fucking stop laughing. We’re seriously not going to have a Speaker of the House until after the next election. And the whole time, these idiots are going to be publicly patting themselves on the back for “standing up to DC” or some stupid shiite.
What a joke. We’re not going to have a speaker until the Democrats win the House are we?
There are 5 republican cowards. All they have to do is go for Jeffries and boom. Shit can start working again.
I’m sick with GOP Fuck-up Fatigue.
It takes a lot to shock me these days, when it comes to the GOP, but this did it. What an absolute cluster fuck clown show
And trump once again causes another Republican mess.
These folks seriously can’t do anything right anymore
Ridicules, Republicans suck. The should never ever control any branch of our goverment. Remember this when you vote. They do nothing for the people.
In 2 weeks when the gov shuts down again and can’t reopen because there is no speaker. The market will crash everyday. Pissing away all your 401K.
Trump endorsed him last year too lol, see below. How many mooches is this?
Republicans don’t actually want a new Speaker because it’s makes shutting the government down significantly easier without internal, constituents and activist blowback focused on any one member.
GOP is such a shit stain on our country.
Emmer’s bid was undone by about two dozen GOP holdouts and a forceful statement from Donald Trump that made it clear to him and every other Republican that he would never have the 217 votes needed to win the gavel on the floor.
This is what happens when you have no interest in actually governing and only want to rule.
How’s the conservative sub holding up? Moving more goal posts? Twisting logic like pretzels? I can’t bring myself to even look there.
Thanks Obama.
I’ve had many people in my life throw baffled and eyebrow-raised looks my way when I reveal that I’m a down-ballot Democrat voter, from town crier all the way up to the Presidency. I have never voted Republican in my life. Even folks who almost always vote Democratic are surprised by this.
This latest development demonstrates why I vote the way I do. The Republican Party is not a serious political party. The Republican Party cannot govern, legislate, or come to a consensus on almost any issue within their own party.
The speaker vote is largely supposed to be a formality and pre-determined long before the clerks are reading off names. Only a political party as ineffective, asinine, indolent, and chaotic as the Republican Party could fuck something as simple as the speaker vote up.
It seems that for all practical purposes, there are now three parties in Congress, the Democrats, the moderate Republicans and the MAGA Republicans. If that’s the case, then the Democrats are now the majority party, and should be allowed to install their speaker.
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This is an absolute clusterfuck and totally on brand for the GQP.
What an absolute joke the Republican Party is
Well, that lasted about .03 Scaramuccis.
Jesus H. Christ! He lasted only a few hours!
The lettuce never even made it home from the store on this one.
If you spend 40 to 50 years whipping your constituents into a frenzy about how bad compromise with Democrats is, I guess sort of dysfunction is what you get.
Freedom Caucus is going to accept no one else but a Freedom Caucus member as Speaker at this point.
Tom Emmer really just did the Abe Simpson meme.
Absolute fucking circus
I nominate this inanimate carbon rod!
This is called “winning”, folks.
What a fucking joke.
Looks like Trump still holds some sway, no matter how much ass-kissing a contender must engage in.
I know this whole situation is bad for the country, but I can’t fucking stop laughing. We’re seriously not going to have a Speaker of the House until after the next election. And the whole time, these idiots are going to be publicly patting themselves on the back for “standing up to DC” or some stupid shiite.
What a joke. We’re not going to have a speaker until the Democrats win the House are we?
There are 5 republican cowards. All they have to do is go for Jeffries and boom. Shit can start working again.
I’m sick with GOP Fuck-up Fatigue.
It takes a lot to shock me these days, when it comes to the GOP, but this did it. What an absolute cluster fuck clown show
And trump once again causes another Republican mess.
These folks seriously can’t do anything right anymore
Ridicules, Republicans suck. The should never ever control any branch of our goverment. Remember this when you vote. They do nothing for the people.
In 2 weeks when the gov shuts down again and can’t reopen because there is no speaker. The market will crash everyday. Pissing away all your 401K.
Trump endorsed him last year too lol, see below. How many mooches is this?
https://ibb.co/zJ41htv
Dems in disarray!
Reminds me of when I was in the first grade!
But without the maturity:-))!
Republicans are a bunch of fucking clowns.
Why would the democrats do this?
This clown car sure has a lot of gas in its tank.
100% Trump’s doing.
He’s destroying the GOP and they cant do anything to stop him. What will corporations do once their party is gone?
There should be a forfeiture rule in politics. Rs cant win the game, so speaker should go to the dems.
> “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”
– [Lindsey Graham, 2016](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/maybe-lindsey-graham-s-anti-trump-prediction-was-right-after-n1253048)
Mom says it’s my turn to be the Nominee
Republicans don’t actually want a new Speaker because it’s makes shutting the government down significantly easier without internal, constituents and activist blowback focused on any one member.
GOP is such a shit stain on our country.
Emmer’s bid was undone by about two dozen GOP holdouts and a forceful statement from Donald Trump that made it clear to him and every other Republican that he would never have the 217 votes needed to win the gavel on the floor.
This is what happens when you have no interest in actually governing and only want to rule.
How’s the conservative sub holding up? Moving more goal posts? Twisting logic like pretzels? I can’t bring myself to even look there.
Thanks Obama.
I’ve had many people in my life throw baffled and eyebrow-raised looks my way when I reveal that I’m a down-ballot Democrat voter, from town crier all the way up to the Presidency. I have never voted Republican in my life. Even folks who almost always vote Democratic are surprised by this.
This latest development demonstrates why I vote the way I do. The Republican Party is not a serious political party. The Republican Party cannot govern, legislate, or come to a consensus on almost any issue within their own party.
The speaker vote is largely supposed to be a formality and pre-determined long before the clerks are reading off names. Only a political party as ineffective, asinine, indolent, and chaotic as the Republican Party could fuck something as simple as the speaker vote up.
It seems that for all practical purposes, there are now three parties in Congress, the Democrats, the moderate Republicans and the MAGA Republicans. If that’s the case, then the Democrats are now the majority party, and should be allowed to install their speaker.