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

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

Xxpost that's if people fail to show for roll call and vote. Majority needed regardless

I nominate my good self.

do we have to have a speaker of the house? what if no one ever wins this vote?

House is over

McCarthy claims Matt Gaetz told him he wouldn't care if speaker stalemate ends with Democrat leading the House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWIGkv5bJk

What exactly is their beef w McCarthy? He’s not Trumpy enough?

he's not really one of them, not a made guy (seriously, like George H.W. Bush)

Could start going another way when he thinks he can, is what they think, I think.

So how long can Jordan afford to stay with him?

Did y'all read last week's New Yorker profile. Guy's a soulless glad-handler. He's not vicious enough.

"your moments of clarity disqualify you sirya fucking douche!"

if this doesn't end in a kanye nomination, all politicians should be legally declared cowards.

Guy's a soulless glad-handler. He's not vicious enough. Yeah, like Poppy Bush to them. Also, he yelled at Trump about Jan. 6. (before going down there and trying to make nice, but there's the shit you can't take back)

(Even though he became "My Kevin.")

He's not vicious enough.

considering his caucus, this is a surefire recipe for failure

Democrats already sending out emails trying to fundraise off of the "utter chaos on the House floor."

Did y'all read last week's New Yorker profile.

Maybe for $5 a word, paid in advance. Otherwise, fuck no.

Such loyalty

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump declined to say if he's sticking by his endorsement of Kevin McCarthy for speaker tonight, telling me in a brief phone interview he's had calls all day asking for support, and "We'll see what happens. We'll see how it all works out."

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 3, 2023

If you get on board the Trump Train, you will, at some point, be thrown off.

Democrats already sending out emails trying to fundraise off of the "utter chaos on the House floor."

They adjourned so they can't even say my $10 would go toward catering their dinners.

I have received four emails from Hakeem Jeffries in the last 30 minutes.

Lol I was gonna say "not me", and then lo and behold

Minnesota politics continue being endearingly unique ... first trans lawmaker sworn in by governor juggling a tin of bars in his other hand:

Leigh Finke ( @leighfinke ) first #transgender person elected to the state's legislature, attends the first day of the 2023 legislative session in Minn. @MPRnews pic.twitter.com/63XOjn5n5j

— Kerem Yücel (@keremyucel) January 3, 2023

Re: the Speaker race... I see no indication that tomorrow won't be a replay of today. This is viewed by the trumplings as a personal branding exercise, rather than coherent legislation

The only thing I remember from the New Yorker profile is that a young Kevin McCarthy ran a deli out of his aunt and uncle's yogurt shop.

https://www.republicanleader.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/kevin-o-deli-2.png

Santos trying to leave the Capitol tonight, still not answering any questions pic.twitter.com/L4OcDZEF4m

— Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) January 4, 2023

Like Sinema - just utter contempt for any non-donors

I think at this point he has no friends at all. He lives in an era when he’s expected to carry on even though everyone knows he’s a fraud. In the past it would have been rough but he would’ve been forced down by now, out of...what was it? Shame? I forget how it used to work.

Santos/Sinema '24

Republicans need to settle this, they are rapidly running out of time for the Hunter Biden trials