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

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

that was bobbin boy!

We can get through 3 votes a day apparently, and if the House works full 4 day weeks we can expect a Speaker around late March.

how many more rounds before people start throwing things?

The beatings will continue until morale improves hyuk hyuk

Actually, I think the greatest danger is for a handful of Democrats to vote for McCarthy just to put an end to the standoff - apparently Kaptur said she was open to the idea.

If that happened it would suck even more to be McCarthy - having won his position with - eek - bipartisan support would doom him even more with the delegation from Crazytown

imagine watching this as a civic minded teenager and ever thinking you might want to go into politics

this seems like something that would happen in italy, tbh

pic.twitter.com/8ogBYM0bbW

— Keith-ish Edwards (@keithedwards) January 4, 2023

How long until someone just yells THIS IS BULLSHIT during one of these roll counts?

1 vote recorded for Rep. Bullshit

Lol

democrats shouted that they wanted Cammack's words about them drinking to be removed from the record. McCarthy responded "there are no rules", meaning that they don't have the rules in place to strike something from the record

just want to note that this is the first cool thing mccarthy has ever said

Actually, I think the greatest danger is for a handful of Democrats to vote for McCarthy just to put an end to the standoff - apparently Kaptur said she was open to the idea.

― Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:53 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the art of war is generally pretty remedial advice but there are people out there who could benefit from it

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JcMAAOSw-s5eAwWq/s-l500.jpg

apparently Kaptur said she was open to the idea

Pelosi and Jeffries seem to have already laid down the law on this and the official position is Don't You Fucking Dare.

mmmmm steak

“I wish I could be part of some kind of a unity caucus that would yield [McCarthy] the votes, because the Republicans hold a majority, and maybe put us in a special category,” Kaptur told Taylor Popielarz, a Washington correspondent for Spectrum News.

what the fuck does that even mean, why do we let 75+ year old people stay in Congress

"put us in a special category" = in an ALF