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

for gaetz to have any demands at all, after mccarthy looked the other way for his sex crimes, is ridiculous, but then again he keeps skating through life and getting what he wants.

i don't know much about harris, but he is a leading anti-abortion advocate, and he's such a square (and a political dumbass) that he vehemently opposes recreational marijuana. he's the one who wants the health and human services subcommittee position.

Every day this continues postpones the creation of the House Hunter Biden Activities Committee.

Gaetz and Santos chatting on camera

the house adjourns until 8pm tonight.

they should just not bother with it all like when belgium doesnt "have a government" for a year or whatever

they have waffles instead

Belgium otm

waffles are delicious

Good fries also

also Belgium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkDepLX0rk

also Belgium:

https://i.imgur.com/iJRlBLI.jpg

https://cdn001.tintin.com/public/tintin/img/static/herge/1961-Tintin_Talbot.jpg

https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/e0ac68bf-93fb-46e4-8c97-692a511d5cf7.jpg

not Belgium but

https://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/We-Need-to-Talk-About-Kevin_i03.jpg

burned boats

Boebert said the “boats are burned.” She said at this point “we need to get to a person that is a consensus candidate.”
Gaetz: “He’s a desperate guy … and I’m ready to vote all night, all week, all month, and never for that person,” per @AnnieGrayerCNN

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 4, 2023

Her Kleagle just had them watch a History Channel show on Hernan Cortes.

The time has come to say "Fair's fair"
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our boats are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our boats are burning?

Boats Are Burning is my favorite Midnight Oil song.

Lol xp

So for Jeffries to win with 212 votes there just needs to be 12 republicans who vote present or forget to come back from dinner

please please please

you just can't make this stuff up

On a call with No Labels, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that some Republicans are working on a backup plan as McCarthy’s speakership bid continues to stall. Bacon said that “if nine percent of the conference refuses to play ball at all, then we’re gonna have to work with Democrats on this.”

He added that the compromise candidate would definitely be a Republican who is palatable to both sides.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) greeted the idea with much excitement.

Bacon didn’t reveal many details, saying that “you don’t negotiate Wall Street deals in public.”

If Democrats were to help Republicans out of this self-inflicted hell, of course, they’d demand huge concessions. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), while talking about the prospect earlier, suggested that Republicans give up chairmanships to win their help. It’s a good dose of reality against No Labels’ bipartisan dreams.

still horny for bipartisanship at his advanced age

looks like they're starting off with a motion to adjourn and head to subway eat fresh for a nightcap

i hear the new breakfast sandwiches are good? and with a noon return - hey

oh hey I forgot how much I hated Lieberman

Democracy is messy! And so are these new Subs!

motion to "enjoy a footlong melt with -- what's that? oh, um...provolone. with lettu- oh sorry, toasted, please. *one minute passes* yeah i'll take lettuce, tomatoes, onion...spinach...um...salt and pepper, chipotle sauce...and that'll be it. no chips and a drink, no thank you. thank you. debit" fails, 192-225

this is wild

even the vote to adjourn was a shit show. 216-214 to adjourn til noon tomorrow, with a 4 non-votes from the GOP, 2 from the democrats, and a bunch of yelling and booing and cheering

A lotta drunks

This is the Screaming British Parliament Energy I have long craved.

— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 5, 2023

lol otm

may we live in the stupidest of times

might be the second time we have a McCarthy asked if they have no shame

additional concessions to the freedom caucus are already on the way:

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC endorsed by California Republican Kevin McCarthy, and the Club for Growth, the influential conservative group, announced Wednesday night that CLF will not spend in any open-seat primaries in safe GOP districts and it will not “grant resources to other super PAC’s to do so.”

The announcement comes ahead of a potential seventh speaker vote, and it tackles a major issue some of the 20 Republicans who have so far refused to vote for McCarthy voiced. During the midterm elections, the CLF worked to elect more-moderate candidates considered more willing to govern, an intervention — first reported by The Washington Post — that only added to the skepticism of staunch hard-liners in the Freedom Caucus.

and of course, as we all know from that excellent supreme court decision, we can trust that all the politicians involves are NOT coordinating with the super PACs

moderate candidates considered more willing to govern

how dare they

at long last, have you no balls

Footlong breads, absurd circuses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY3FxWRz1cw

Wow. What a combo.

so much high school talent show energy

Meanwhile MAGAs continue to MAGA

NEW: Meet Nathaniel Kelly, Ottawa County's newly named health officer pending state approval.

He fought mask rules, promoted unproven COVID-19 treatments and once mocked Whitmer's sign translator in a parody video.

From me and @jonathanoosting:
https://t.co/CIHrSpKFok

— Yue Stella Yu (@bystellayu) January 4, 2023

An all-MAGA slate took over county commission there. Besides naming an ivermectin zealot to run the Health Department, they also entirely disbanded and fired the county's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office, accusing it of producing Marxist propaganda.

nasty

can't someone lock all these guys in a room and release 1000 deadly scorpions

https://en.24smi.org/public/media/235x307/celebrity/2019/08/12/fnweoaoenhxt-scorpions.jpg

https://rocktourdatabase.com/sites/rocktourdatabase.com/files/Scorpions.jpg

let’s have them release their wind of change in that locked room

WaPo gettin' cheeky (gift link)

If there are no actual members, who is in charge on this side of the Capitol?

Pence pointed to the ceiling and said, “God.” (God could not be reached for comment.)

What if enough people voted God? For speaker?

How do we know that George Santos … isn’t God?