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

pete sessions, voice of reason

“Sixteen of the 19 will be there until the cows come home,” said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), a supporter of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “I think it ends when someone grows weary … I think this costs us prestige. There’s an old saying that the whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. I’d like to see us fight like hell internally to make this work.”

“I think somebody’s going to have to say, this is starting to look bad,’” Sessions continued, adding that he didn’t have any other names of a consensus candidate. “I’m not there yet.”

Yes, when I think of the current GOP, "prestige" is the first thing that comes to mind.

Dennis Hastert could be Speaker from prison via Zoom

or from the grave via seance, maybe he died (hopefully)

Newt is tanned, rested and ready iirc

he'd totally accept it

Newt may be the most relentless self-promoter of the last half century. I realize that's saying a lot.

But would Newt’s wife’s hair accept it

well he traded that in for new hair, it might be different now

Surprising choice but ok pic.twitter.com/HQ85sfXZCD

— Eli Valley (@elivalley) January 3, 2023

jeb! for speakership

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