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

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?

January 3rd is the new January 6th

xp lol Dan that is a perfect zing

amazing photo

just threw $20 in the betting market for Jim Jordan. if I'm gonna follow this crap ima make a little money

(he won't win but I'll just make a little money as the price goes up and sell lol)

some interesting things happening in the statehouses today, as well:

Eying the board, Ohio's House Democratic caucus allied with about 20 Republicans (out of 64) in Ohio's state House to elect Jason Stephens as Speaker over the choice of the Republican caucus. https://t.co/KExUwaDAOa

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 3, 2023

Very loosely, inverse situation in PA, where Dems gained state House by a narrow 102-101 majority in Nov. but faced 3 vacancies that prevented them from electing their preferred Speaker. Now a Dem lawmaker was elected who says he'll be an Indy speaker.https://t.co/zdnFF2Svsa

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 3, 2023

lol now they're talking about voting to adjourn?

Money on roll call vote on whether to vote on adjourning

who presides over the chamber during all this

needs 218 votes. i don't see it

xpost Eric Andre

JUST IN: Kevin McCarthy officially falls on the third ballot.. a motion was made to a adjourn and was passed by voice vote.

House will reconvene tomorrow at noon.

Meanwhile- The US is without a Speaker of the House or a functioning House or Representatives.

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) January 3, 2023

how 2 save either house or representatives

Honest question, since I have no clue about the procedural nuts and bolts of this: 20 Trumpy nutjobs are like "No way McCarthy." But they haven't put forward any viable alternative that could gain enough votes (Jordan, lol.) So why would (or should) McCarthy blink and stand down at this point?

absolute shitshow

It is possible to elect a Speaker with fewer than 218 votes. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) were elected with 216 votes in 2021 and 2015, respectively.

All/many Repubs could unite in ripping Speaker Jefffies a new one, each and every day.

trump or bust am i too late