U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

third round, here we go again. same candidates.

Democrats would be stupid for not showing up every single time to draw this out as long as possible.

yeah I'll be pissed if they don't

the should be playing pickle ball on the House floor while this debacle unfolds (again)

You have to assume this is Boebert's last stand, and she knows the full force of the GOP machine will be working against her next cycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm1wLkRJ30U

Jordan with 7 votes.

McCarthy just LOST another vote, Donalds voted for him on first few ballot, now voted Jordan.

OK, I've un-lost interest a tiny bit

Bowman said this right after he spotted Rep. Byron Donalds and urged him to "vote for a brother," ie vote for Jeffries for speaker and end this. "Reparations!"

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) January 3, 2023

they should do the vote in reverse-alphabetical order to shake things up a little

Dems should nominate Liz Cheney next round and get 6 R people to vote for her. she's terrible and not redeemed by the Jan 6th committee but since you don't have to be an incumbent House member to be speaker it would be a hilarious jizzing on the foreheads of the far right

and I don't see 6 Rs defecting otherwise

lmao bowman

don't see it at all really but hell we know our theories are much more interesting than what will really happen, is people will want to go to Buffalo Wild Wings and finally just vote for McCarthy

right now I'm playing Mortician and have the sound from the roll call playing over it, it's made the songs very interesting

btw Trump supported McCarthy after McCarthy thoroughly licked his boots. Trump looks weaker than ever.

On her floor convo with Rep. Gosar earlier, AOC tells me that McCarthy made claims within the GOP conf. that some Ds would walk away to lower the threshold. Gosar was asking AOC for clarification — would she walk away? “We would never do that,” AOC told me. Jeffries all the way. pic.twitter.com/yDsbJjFIPU

— Gabe Ferris (@GabeFerris) January 3, 2023

dems in disarray

well this is going to a 4th ballot, he's already lost 12 to Jordan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dp29XacCe8

Did Steve just slip and say... "some of these f..kers"?😳 pic.twitter.com/OnxUaRPrLA

— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) January 3, 2023

lol

nominations:

a literal turd
a figurative turd
Louie Gohmert

lol AOC missed vote 3 and I think I heard her holler "Jeffries!" a few seconds later.

xposts Gaetz was also spotted having a chat with AOC on the floor, presumably also on the topic of whether or not the democrats would please go away to make it easier on them

i really shouldn't be laughing about any of this.

and yet.

Jordan again at 19

something for everybody

now he's at 20

not the first time he's been around 20-somethings and not done anything

sad lol

with all this obstruction they should call this the Bowel of Representatives

Kevin McCarthy is still not speaker. A staffer delivers Clay Higgins an entire footling from Subway outside the House chamber. It is nearing 5pm.

— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) January 3, 2023

oh dear. this is a different version of what was being discussed. This is less that Gosar/Gaetz asking the Dems to do this than asking for assurance they wouldn't, or trying to see if McCarthy was accurate that Dems wld bail him out. https://t.co/b36u7B7fr4

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 3, 2023

i am loving this

lol Jeffries still got 212. only diff is that McCarthy lost more vote

three votes, almost identical results.

A staffer delivers Clay Higgins an entire footling from Subway outside the House chamber.

footling is a fitting typo here, even if it doesn't quite make sense grammatically

This is really, really great.

agreed, my day has been made

Is it Christmas again, or what?

I'm really delighted, this is what every day is like in the UK Parliament right, it's so funny

what if someone just leaves a couple dozen cans of silly string on the house floor, just to see what happens

With no power, nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you?
Don't you

DON'T YOU

time to get black rod pilled

another hour or so and the evening news shows will be on, for people who still watch those, and the news will be that the debacle is still ongoing with no end in sight

silly string and banana peels for all. we can add "yakety sax" in post, right?

Has anyone prank ordered 100 pizzas to the House floor yet?

Shall the defectors form their own Pizza Party?

Kids on House floor ... pic.twitter.com/Eqlu3TtkgC

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) January 3, 2023

Couldn't they provide something to entertain those poor kids, like a drag show?