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

Can’t they vote by holding up auction paddles?

Kevin thought he had earned it

Pelosi would have made sure she had the votes

Subway is actually the only winner here

this is like some version of purgatory, but with Subway

My version of purgatory already had Subway in it tbh

lol

George Santos getting caught up in his first convo with another human all week and missing his vote is… quality content. pic.twitter.com/zlPmPhlKOd

— Nate Morris (@_natemorris) January 4, 2023

C-SPAN really needs to just have the Curb Your Enthusiasm music on standby at all times

its crazy they didnt whip the votes before all this what did they think would happen

I think it's more that they tried and tried and couldn't get it done. It's not like they had an option to not have a vote on it.

they needed to try something else then find another guy offer more goodies something this is teh epic fail

lag∞n, get in there, offer goodies

"What they're really interested in is chaos," wrote Boehner. "They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails and they've finally proved that it's beyond saving."

https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-john-boehner/

Who'd get it / would have gotten it if this were a secret ballot? Jeffries in the 3rd?

lol the santos clip. when they called his name twice and he didn't answer, i just figured he was on the phone with a lawyer (or pretending to be on the phone with his lawyer) or something

In silence, Boehner then finished his third bong rip.

Boehner otm, but has anyone thought about maybe changing the rules so there's a path out of chaos that is more democratic than the shitty anti-democratic rules we've been playing under forever?

IMHO the solution would have to start with a way to undo gerrymandering at the state level.

lol @ Santos' cringe after he realizes he missed the teacher calling his name

the solution would have to be to throw every Republican into a moat

john boehner otm. maybe it IS good to tan your balls?

i still don't really think a scenario where any sort of democrat-approved candidate wins is likely, but i do think that the freedom caucus would rather have jeffries as speaker than mccarthy. boebert and friends don't really have any idea what they're doing, they're not pushing any coherent plan or policy. all they have is "get this country back on track". the only role they have ever served is as the obnoxious opposition who gets to appear on newsmax. that's way more fun and easy when the speaker is from the other party

xp The alligators would refuse to eat them out of professional courtesy

maybe it IS good to tan your balls?

been saying it on the gay thread for at least a decade

LMFAO making public policy now

Many people are saying! xp

It just occurred to me that if trump turns against McCarthy, he’ll basically be following Boebert’s orders. And there’s no way he would ever do that. Shrewd move Boebert!

that old canard about the GOP circling the wagons while the Dems cannibalize

Without a speaker, the United States House of Representatives essentially becomes a useless entity.

"becomes"

I'm currently on the other side of the world, and even I can't resist following this over coffee.

Rep. Kat Cammack is the answer to the question upthread on Boebert's flank, and she's pulling major faces at the podium right now

-The House literally doesn't have the votes to adjourn
-As long as it doesn't adjourn, the House is required to take endless speaker votes
-No one can win those votes
-So Kevin McCarthy is stuck in endless repeating, inescapable loop of failing to become Speaker over and over

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) January 4, 2023

this is very funny also its weird that the country has managed to function for hundreds of years under out batshit constitution

going to be headed to "trading sex for votes"

what they should do if they really want to stick it to the freedom caucus is elect boebert speaker

Someone keeps interrupting Cammack and I'd be surprised if it's not Boebert

Paul Carrack for speaker

Tempted by the vote of another

cammack just said that democrats had "popcorn and alcohol over there", then gave a shit eating grin as they yelled back at her

what an asshole

Cammack sounds like a portmanteau of Biden's "C'mon, Jack!"

and cammack is the one in the blue and white dress who was glaring at Boebert. she finishes her speech and gets a standing ovation from 200 republicans

Tempted by the vote of another

Cool for Kat

many lulz to be had here, but among the lulziest is Trump as elder statesman, calling for unity and warning of potential embarrassment

Supervillain, then

Interesting that she is from Colorado. I used to live not far from where she's from--even attended the same high school for a year. Well, not at the same time--I graduated college the year she was born.

Donalds is the alt nominee again. this is like watching weekend at bernies 2, thousands of times in a row, only way, way worse

dental plan
Lisa needs braces

whoever is nominating Donalds notes that in this town, which is broken, literally broken, is rewarding criminals and ignoring victims. George Santos is not on camera right now, which is too bad

Washington is broken, y'all.

this is the kind of situation where Dwayne Johnson could prevail as a consensus candidate

The yelling is definitely getting louder ... how many more rounds before people start throwing things?

they should do like a weird western town with twelve people and elect a dog mayor

reading up on the lad this happened worst to = nathaniel "bobbin boy" banks of massachusetts

lol the santos clip. when they called his name twice and he didn't answer, i just figured he was on the phone with a lawyer (or pretending to be on the phone with his lawyer) or something

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 4, 2023 2:01 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

George Santos may not even be his real name

I would describe the mood in the chamber as increasingly sarcastic

— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) January 4, 2023

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5049214/user-clip-jared-huffman-pulls-leroy-jenkins

saw on the nyt earlier that the most votes they've ever done is 133 so y'all might want to pace yourselves