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

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?

it could be he made up his life story because nobody would believe the Truth about him

Good morning!!

“They’re mild-to-moderate,” Nehls said about the cigars, “which is good, because they won’t make you s--- your pants.”

Oh, the cigars.

oh yes SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEAASE NOMINATE "GOD"

God, sometimes you just don't come through
Will Kevin McCarthy call you 'boo'

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

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 5, 2023

SANTOS 4 JESUS

oh yes SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEAASE NOMINATE "GOD"

― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:32 AM bookmarkflaglink

when i was younger so much younger than today

(John Lennon could not be reached for comment.)

These concessions are wild

One vote auto-impeachment

No more alcohol on the chamber floors

Subway must now be delivered by Jared himself

The caterers have to varnish their own hors d'oeuvres.

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

jumping and clapping

https://media.proprofs.com/images/QM/user_images/2169923/1511517789.jpg

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

I wonder who wrote that since Lieberman hasn't technically been a Democrat since 2006.

I like to think he's not much of anything tbh

xp it was one of those live blog constant update things, which i always imagine are being written by a reporter who is running and typing at the same time

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/mccarthy-speakership-vote-fail?entry=1444120

the only known liebertarian

liebertard

Kinda sad that the Connecticut for Lieberman Party didn't catch on nationally

don't be aliebist

xp