The new House of Representatives adjourned for the first time with no speaker, no new members sworn in, and no clear path to functioning as a governing body in the near future. https://t.co/rD89VlHROz
— Axios (@axios) January 4, 2023
… State of play: Three times, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) fell short of the 218 votes needed to become speaker, with 19 Republicans voting for alternative candidates on the first and second ballots.
– On the third ballot, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) switched his vote from McCarthy to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — calling on the GOP conference to huddle and “come to a consensus” given that McCarthy “doesn’t have the votes.”
– “Hard to overstate the psychological/optical blow of *losing* support on the third ballot when you desperately need things to be heading the opposite direction,” Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman tweeted.
What’s next: McCarthy and the rebels are both digging in, threatening to turn the speaker battle into a war of attrition when the House returns tomorrow at noon.
– Asked how long he’s willing to let this go on, leading anti-McCarthy Republican Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told reporters this evening: “Six more months.”
– For McCarthy, withdrawing from the race is not on the table. But there’s little else he can offer up in the spirit of compromise, given the raft of concessions he’s already made…
NOW: The U.S House of Representatives has adjourned for the day after Republicans, who have the majority, failed to elect a Speaker. It’s the first time in 100 yrs that a U.S. House speaker was not elected on first ballot. Kevin McCarthy was nominated 3 times. 3 times it failed.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 3, 2023
Democrats chanted Hakeem Jeffries' name after nominating the New York representative to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He's received more votes than House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy 3 consecutive times. 🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/j4J9zJEkae
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) January 3, 2023
I asked Dem leader Hakeem Jefferies if there was a consensus GOP candidate for Speaker, Democrats could support.
His response:“We're looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction.” https://t.co/Q5vjdozjCP
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) January 4, 2023
Let. Them. Fight…
Greene: Boebert, under two million dollars from McCarthy to get elected
Boebert: I can say that I did not receive any help in that election pic.twitter.com/LU5qqo7il3— Acyn (@Acyn) January 3, 2023
So @DavidJollyFL just went on @chrislhayes's show and predicted that Kevin McCarthy not only won't win the House Speakership this week, but that he also won't even be in the House of Representatives a year from now.
— Sallinger (@sallinger) January 4, 2023
.@RepMattGaetz full ego was on display today. He’s going to screw around and get another Pelosi elected Speaker. I’ll have a lot more to say about this political D-Lister tomorrow.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) January 4, 2023
Narrator: Tucker hates Kevin McCarthy https://t.co/kYZHKZ2uRZ
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 3, 2023
I haven't laughed this hard in years. pic.twitter.com/hv9TSPdDX3
— The Trump Crisis 🎯 (@RWTrollPatrol) January 3, 2023
On her way out of the chamber a few minutes ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just said “it speaks for itself” when asked about today’s vote and adjournment without a speaker/rules/swearing anyone in. pic.twitter.com/BXqYjfhXbr
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) January 3, 2023
Alison Rose
I hope Pelosi takes a nice hot bubble bath with a glass of champagne tonight, laughing herself silly over the McCarthy failparade.
NotMax
Dragged up from downstairs, amended.
What was the message from the House today?
“No, Trelane.”
Let’s hear it for disarray! Gimme a D, gimme an I….
//
Old School
I assume everyone moves up in the line of succession until there actually is a Speaker of the House.
Ken
Attrition? As in, reduce the number of Republicans voting? Please proceed…
MattF
They’re not even looking for a pony— it’s all shit in the hole, all the way down. They’re burying themselves and their party in shit, and that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.
NotMax
@Old Schooll
Yuppers. For today (at the least), Patty Murray is second in line should the unthinkable occur.
WaterGirl
@Ken: They think the Dems will get tired and bored and not show up. The Dems did apparently help by not showing up for the vote for the Granny starver, I think it was. I read that on Balloon Juice today so it must be true!
So they live in hope.
edit: oops, according to Jim, Foolish Literalist, it was Boehner.
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Dorothy A. Winsor
I would give a lot to know what Pelosi was thinking and saying about this exhibit
dmsilev
@Ken: I’ve got dibs on the barbed wire and Maxim gun supply contracts.
NotMax
TV showing stacks of pizza boxes being wheeled into the Speaker’s offices.
Impressed that Romania managed to deliver it so quickly.
:)
lowtechcyclist
That is perfect.
I’m not worried about the change in Dem leadership. Jeffries isn’t just gonna be great, he already is.
And Pelosi’s “it speaks for itself”? The icing on the cake. So glad she’s sticking around for another term.
dmsilev
@Dorothy A. Winsor: ‘I put down the gavel and things go to shit this quickly?’
sdhays
Our Kevin’s big mistake was focusing on compromise with these people. To be an effective leader, you need both carrot and stick. He has no stick, and the feral poop lizards in his caucus aren’t fond of vegetables either.
Of course, that’s not totally his personal fault. The extreme partisanship that they’ve been supercharging over the years has led to this – there are a bunch of people who do not give a shit about anything other than preening extremism and there are no longer a group of people on the other end of the caucus who can effectively threaten to throw in with the Democrats because the parties are too far apart for them to survive that move.
The only move I can see is Kevin making a deal with Democrats and his bestest buddies in the Republican caucus to force a rules change to a plurality vote for Speaker and dare the Gym Jordan supporters to elect Jeffries. I don’t know how he convinces the Democrats to do that because he’s an absurdly weak untrustworthy slime ball which is how he got in this situation in the first place.
Oh well.
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
If subjected to jokes like that, I won’t Romania much longer. ;-)
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Feeling better? One fervently hopes a LOT better.
oldster
I want to know on whose authority the metal detectors were removed from the chamber today. It sure as hell was not on the authority of the Speaker of the House, whose job it would normally be.
So, I’m inclined to think that the change to the chamber’s security was entirely illegitimate. Put back the metal detectors, until there is some valid authority for their removal.
Not that I am worried about the safety of the Dem reps. Their main danger comes from the possibility of overdosing on Schadenfreude.
sanjeevs
Is Boebert making an admission that she broke campaign finance laws in that clip above? What else can this mean?
sdhays
@NotMax: I wonder if he’ll barricade himself in the Speaker’s office when it becomes clear he won’t ever be Speaker.
GGordonL
She should have said “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Nancy or Hakim” We know a leader when we see them
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
Aw, don’t go impetuously Russian off.
:)
sdhays
@oldster: I wondered that too.
sdhays
@WaterGirl: I thought it was Boehner they helped.
BruceFromOhio
I want every single Dem lobbyist, activist, pollster, fund raiser, state and local party leader to listen to this man and repeat this over and over: THEY CANNOT LEAD, THEY CANNOT GOVERN, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT IT MEANS. It is foolish to be fearful of these creatures, they are worthy of aught but disdain and ridicule.
I look forward to a blue tsunami in ’24. Let the little fascists wither in the impotent red spaces too far gone to elect leaders.
oldster
Can we also take a moment and offer praise for our own conference’s radicals? AOC, Jayapal, the Squad as a whole — they may stake out the left end of the policy space, but when it comes to legislating and governing, they do what is needed to Get Shit Done. They did not kneecap Nancy just for jollies or for media hits. They pushed for what they thought they could get, and then they voted with the party (usually, though not always).
I think those women deserve a lot of credit for their (relative) political maturity. I’d also like to think that they had a very good mentor and model in Nancy herself.
geg6
Jesus, what a shitshow. I’ve had a bit of the stomach virus going around, so it’s been a tough day laughing my ass off so much my stomach muscles are cramping between the two things.
JoyceH
How many Republican Congressmen are in districts that Biden won? Six, maybe? Willing to cross the aisle to actually govern, maybe?
Cameron
@Ken: McCarthy has already requested several HIMARS units to attrite his opposition.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: I’m no longer shedding bodily fluids. I’m just ready for bed as soon as I get out of it.
Thanks for asking. :-)
Birdie
Re: the Ryan Nobles question to Jeffries, I am cynical, but if this drags on I expect the “Why aren’t Democrats supporting a consensus candidate?” media chorus to get louder and louder.
Jeffries’ response is the right one. I’m hoping he gets to say “How about never?” at some point. Then the baton will truly have passed.
NotMax
@sdhays
Anticipatory alterations. No one employed there is about to cross swords with the majority on day one.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@oldster: They concentrated on the work rather than on getting media exposure
Omnes Omnibus
Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”
SiubhanDuinne
@sdhays:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Precious bodily fluids.
(Someone has to say it.)
;)
BruceFromOhio
@oldster: This x 16 jillion. I hope they stay in public office for many years.
sdhays
@oldster: It helps when you actually have an agenda you want to advance and can accept that you need all of these other people to support you some time.
The lady who was trying to win the Ohio (Cleveland?) district that got a lot of attention struck me as closer in temperament to Krysten Sinema or Lauren Boebert. I’m glad she lost.
coin operated
@sdhays:
(Bringing this up from the previous thread) Question for anyone…Would Jeffries have to take the job? If there’s some parliamentary rule that would allow him to refuse (or force another vote) I don’t see him willingly standing in the crosshairs of a crazed Republican majority for even a second. Nancy didn’t pick a dummy to succeed her.
And his quote on Republican dysfunction was absolutely beautiful
oldster
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I think that’s right. I’m not saying I agreed with every vote they took or every statement they publicized.
But if anything could make you appreciate their relative sanity, focus, and sense of purpose, it is witnessing the utter nihilism, triviality, and infantilism of the Boeberts and Gaetzes on the other side.
NotMax
Heard around the floor of the House.
“Anybody got Joe the Plumber’s phone number? We’re running out of options.”
:)
Sister Golden Bear
Spare a thought for us SF Bay Area jackals. The NWS is not fucking around with its warning about the latest storm, which will begin at 4 a.m. Wednesday and continue through 4 p.m. Thursday, with severe rain and gusts up to 60-80 mph.
The New Year’s Eve storm was bad enough. I got 4.5 inches — about a quarter of our annual total — in a matter of hours. Now the ground is even more saturated. Oh, and did I mention we’ve got several more storms hitting over the next 10 days.
Spent the afternoon sandbagging the garage, which flooded on NYE, Hoping it’ll hold.
Chetan Murthy
@oldster: On *everything else except Ukraine* you are 100% correct. But the Squad voted against support for Ukraine, and that was a mistake, and while I still support them, I will remember that. They should know better: Ukraine’s fight is our fight, we are at war with Russia, and in a WAR with Russia, you do not afford your ENEMY the protection of your laws.
And the Squad should know better: if the Russian-backed coup had succeeded, they’d all be dead and in a harrowing manner. They should know better.
Chetan Murthy
@Sister Golden Bear: Here in SF, I heard the northern Mission district was a lake (1-2ft of water) and people in the Marina are buying sandbags.
WaterGirl
@oldster: Imm answered that question in an earlier thread today.
WaterGirl
@sanjeevs: I took it to mean that she would like to say a lot more about that, but she can’t.
WaterGirl
@sdhays: Maybe it was Boehner.
edit: I looked it up. This is what Jim, Foolish Literalist wrote earlier.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
See? See? No sooner does Pelosi relinquish the gavel than San Francisco goes to pot.
//
Nicole
I’m thinking about how lucky I am to have been alive during one of the greatest Speakers of the House in the nation’s history’s time, and also how lovely it is that she’s there to offer advice to Hakeem Jeffries the next couple of years, because I really believe he’ll be the next Democratic Speaker, and it’ll happen by 2025 at the latest. He’s very talented and smart; he likely would succeed with or without her advice, but it’s such a nice look at how good the Democratic Party is with each other that she’s still there (and were I taking over the Party leadership, I’d sure want every cat-herding tip she could give me).
Andrya
@Sister Golden Bear: Thanks for the warning. I live in the SF Bay/South Bay, and you reminded me to check that all my emergency power sources are fully charged.
Jackie
I ran out of popcorn just before the end of round 2. Quick grocery trip between round 2 and 3…. Bought a six month supply – which MAY outlast Kevin!🤞🏻
oldster
@Chetan Murthy:
Well, I remained 100% correct by giving myself some room for exceptions, i.e. “I’m not saying I agreed with every vote they took.”
Their votes against support for Ukraine are surely one of the biggest blunders they made, for the very reasons that you articulate. I wish they had listened to Obama when he said, “I’m not opposed to all wars, I am opposed to dumb wars.” The war that Ukraine is fighting for Europe, for democracy, and for its very survival, is anything but a dumb war. And our support for it is anything but dumb. It’s noble and savvy at once, and opportunities to do something both noble and savvy don’t come around too often. I wish they had seen that, and in the years to come I hope they will see better.
OverTwistWillie
Brains!
oldster
@WaterGirl:
Thanks! I’ll try to hunt it up in the earlier threads.
Jeffro
this whole thread + the day’s events = my grin could not BE any bigger
we’re past Joker level and approaching that shark from ‘Finding Nemo’ level
Jeffro
@Birdie: “How about never?” would be GREAT
“My offer to them is this: nothing.” would be EP. IC.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chetan Murthy:
@oldster:
What was their reasoning for voting against Ukraine aid?
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Sister Golden Bear: We’re scheduled for 2 1/2 inches down here in the south.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Recreational pot has been legal here for several years.
Geminid
@sdhays: You may be talking about former State Senator Nina Turner. She lost primaries to Shontelle Brown twice, first in a special election in 2021 to fill Martha Fudge’s 10th CD seat, and then in last year’s primary. I was very relieved both times.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
So would I. Because as much popcorn-watching a mockery we get out of this, it is in no way good for the country. Not good at all, and I bet Nancy has some great insight as to how this plays out.
Anoniminous
@Sister Golden Bear:
NWS talking about a “bomb cyclone” — an event in which the pressure in a storm drops very quickly when cold air collides with warm air, intensifying the cyclone’s spin and creating havoc — at the moment they’re talking about Category 3 hurricane strength when it comes ashore.
zhena gogolia
@Sister Golden Bear: I hope you stay safe.
BruceFromOhio
@Anoniminous: NWS or The Weather Channel? Two very different animals.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
Haven’t really heard anything from Turner lately, have we?
craigie
@Sister Golden Bear:
We were just told they are preemptively closing some main roads here in Hollywood because of the approaching rain/floods.
mali muso
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think I saw some tweets where she was taking the recent Southwest Airlines failure as an opportunity to bash Pete Buttigieg. 🤷♀️
Another Scott
The hits keep coming…
Steele sounds surprised. Lots of people have sounded surprised today. Maybe their drugs are wearing off simultaneously…??
(via NormOrnstein)
Cheers,
Scott.
Kent
They are all complete tools. One of them is George Santos.
So no. Not likely
Just because a district is moderate, doesn’t mean the Republican jackals who emerge out of the GOP primary are moderate.
YY_Sima Qian
I enjoy the schadenfreude at House GOP’s chaotic display as much as anyone, but the US is exploring further depths of disfunction here, proving once again that there is no bottom not peak wing nut. The ROW is watching w/ a mixture of bemusement, fear & schadenfreude.
The GOP has held the entire country hostage. Until they are convincingly rebuked & punished by the voters, this won’t change.
Kent
No, not going to happen in a million years. That would be like saying a few Dems would cross the aisle and elect Kevin McCarthy in 2020 because Nancy Pelosi couldn’t reach 218. Even the biggest Dem tool in the entire House would never do that.
And even if they did, Jeffries could be stripped of the speakership on any given day if the GOP had a majority which they do. So what would be the point. If there were 4 GOPers who were actually going to change parties that would be different. But they aren’t.
This is the GOPs mess and the longer it goes on the better for Democrats. All that happens if we hurry things up is they get down to screaming about Hunter Biden and Fauci and God knows else. No rush on any of that bullshit. Certainly no reason for Dems to make it go faster.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@mali muso:
That’s a literal right wing talking point. I watching a David Pakman video on this exact thing where some host on the Five was trying to blame Buttigieg for Southwest’s failures, when 90% of flight closures were because of Southwest alone. That’s hardly the Transportation Secretary’s fault
Almost makes me want to believe in Horsehoe Theory
Scout211
Open thread?
Some good news for reproductive rights from the FDA: Link
Jeffro
@Kent: 100% this.
Plus every day that the GQP shitshow continues and all of the Biden/Dems’ 21-22 legislation takes effect, the larger the contrast. Free campaign material for 2024, every. single. day.
James E Powell
@WaterGirl:
According to wikipedia, which is, of course, always correct:
I don’t think the Democrats did it as a favor to Boehner.
Geminid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Turner was slagged last week by some people I follow on twitter. She’d been running Pete Buttegieg down, blaming him for Southwest Airlines’ flight cancellatations. Turner and other Sanders diehards hate Buttegieg.
I think most Sanders fans have gotten over the 2020 primaries but Turner, Sirota and company never will. Those are some very bitter people.
Anoniminous
@BruceFromOhio:
Thought it was the NWS but now that I’m looking back the source is “some meteorologists” coupled with a quote from the Center For Western Weather and Water Extremes.
The radar shows a low pressure system with 969 hPa which considered an intense low compared to the ‘standard’ 1013 hPa. Basically the lower the pressure the greater the more it hurts when it hits. :-)
James E Powell
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
If memory serves, several Ds voted against Ukraine aid, not just the six known as The Squad. I believe the reasoning was that they don’t vote for military aid to anyone? Or something like that.
Mo Salad
If McCarthy really wanted to play hardball, he should organize his supporters and out crazy the right flank. After the first Jordan vote is cast, the next Republican Rep should vote for Jeffries.
Kevin then announces that this will continue after each vote Jordan receives, boom, another Jeffries vote.
I actually think this would bring the wing nuts into line. If not, congratulations Speaker Jeffries.
Kent
They only have a fixed number of days that this Congress is going to be in session. The more days they waste with this sort of clown show is less days for all the BENGAZI!!! type bullshit. I hope it fucking takes them 6 months.
mali muso
@Geminid: I think we follow some of the same accounts. Yep, horseshoe theory is real.
Kent
That’s not hardball. That’s stupid. McCarthy’s better option is to just sit back and let all the other powerful GOPers start to get enraged with these dipshits and start bringing down the hammer. Start threatening to primary their asses and cut off all their sources of lobby fundraising. That sort of thing. Make them persona non grata in GOP circles.
Wapiti
@Sister Golden Bear: Yeah, stay safe. I’ve got a brother in Berkeley and he’s hunkering down.
Oh – and the very stupidest thing I ever did was walk 3 miles home in Houston during one of the tropical storms. Flowing water was hip deep in places. Don’t go out if at all possible; getting sucked down against a sewer grate would be a horrible way to go.
Mo Salad
@Kent:
Oh, I agree it’s stupid. But it is just as likely to work than what you mention, which is how things are SUPPOSED to work.
The trouble is, there is no GOP establishment anymore. No one is there to threaten the Freedumb Carcass. You have to get their lizard brain attention somehow. I don’t see them responding to arm-twisting.
James E Powell
My proposal to resolve this embarrassing impasse:
The ten Republican house members who won by the narrowest margins in November & whose resignation triggers a special election instead of an appointment should resign.
Who’s with me?
Steeplejack
@oldster:
Immanentize earlier today: “I believe the metal detectors placement was a rule of the last Congress which simply dissolved at noon today, without renewal.”
Citizen Alan
@Another Scott: Michael Steele is hardly the first POC to be shocked, SHOCKED, that the GOP is a white supremacist organization. Indeed, he has better reason to know it than anyone. For all his faults, he was probably the best RNC chairman in the last 20 years, and they dumped him because he used Black vernacular one too many times in interviews.
Citizen Alan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): At least the complaint makes coherent sense coming from a Leftist who wants more government control over industry. I am still dumbstruck at all the RWNJs who scream hysterically over encroaching Socialism on an hourly basis and then turn around and bitch because Biden’s not setting gasoline price caps by EO and Buttigieg isn’t micromanaging a private airline’s internal business practices.
cain
@Kent: I dunno if that is going to work. Their districts except for Boebert is pretty happy with them. I’ve already seen at least one right winger hack influencer type lling all the other GOPs not voting for Gym as RINOs. So I think it could backfire.
dww44
Does anyone who watched some of today’s proceedings agree that Jim Jordan looks unwell?
Suzanne
@Sister Golden Bear: Fingers crossed for you and y’all. Those bomb cyclones are no joke.
Suzanne
@Citizen Alan: SAME, oh my God.
I have acquaintances who call themselves libertarians who ask why the federal government doesn’t fix prices on drugs.
Which leads me to the conclusion that most people are full of shit.
Origuy
Sheila Jackson-Lee unloaded on Brian Mast on Twitter today after Mast posted a picture of her office flag in what he claimed was a trash can.
Origuy
Sheila Jackson-Lee unloaded on Brian Mast (R-FL) on Twitter today after Mast posted a picture of her office flag in what he claimed was a trash can.
Craig
@Chetan Murthy: my friend’s bar at 15th and Folsom had water up to her knees. My other friend’s bar at 19th and Folsom was ok. What a mess.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dww44: Maybe he saw that “George Clooney” was trending on twitter and he knew it was because people are asking when “Untitled Ohio State Scandal Project” will be titled, finished and released.
tobie
@oldster:
Actually, they did. Twice before the VA Gubernatorial race they torpedoed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that Pelosi wanted passed. One reason was to help McAuliffe in his race. The other was that she had gotten Manchin to agree to a slimmed down BBB package and they couldn’t stomach it. They thought they had leverage they didn’t.
Tim Ellis
@oldster: Definitely, and the praise goes both ways imo. I am only a Democrat because of Bernie and it was an uncomfortable fit at first, and I’ll admit I underestimated Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. I thought Biden was naive to talk about bipartisanship in this environment.
But then Dem leadership racked up a bunch of bipartisan wins, successfully fractured the GOP, and also did a tremendous job of finding common ground with us progressives.
Today I’m damn proud to be a Democrat, and what’s more,- for the first time in my adult life – I’m impressed with the party’s unity and political chops. It’s a good time to be a Dem!
Mike in NC
Watching “Eli Roth’s History of Horror” on Amazon Prime. Excerpt of David Lynch’s very creepy ‘Eraserhead’ movie is like a metaphor for the entire fucked up Trump administration.
Steeplejack
@Origuy:
That’s from a month ago.
jonas
DougJ! The NYT Pitchtbot signal has been lit!
BruceFromOhio
@dww44: Has he ever looked “well” ?
Full frontal fascism eats at every fiber of a being, may he soon dissolve into a puddle of goo.
Tim Ellis
@tobie: At the time, that move was supported by none other than… President Joe Biden, who insisted that the bills needed to pass together. Eventually, pressure mounted and he decided to split the bills based on a promise from Manchin for support on the final bill; progressives felt that was unlikely to actually happen (and turned out to be right), but did pass the BIF.
I do not think applying negotiating leverage with your caucus of over a 100 representatives to fight for the agenda the President of your party has called for, and then ultimately making peace and doing things a different way and achieving a lot of good things, is comparable at all to the blatant backstabbing going on here with the GOP.
I don’t even blame Manchin for backing down on his promise to pass BBB, it was what everyone expected and was clearly a political fig leaf at the time, and credit where it’s due, Manchin then helped pass the IRA which captured a lot of the big Build Back Better elements and did it while shivving McConnell lol. Politics is messy!
BruceFromOhio
@tobie:
Accurate, but still not for jollies or media hits.
Another Scott
Popehat on Post.news:
Cheers,
Scott.
Leto
@dww44: there’s only so many pounds of shit you can stuff into a ziploc bag before it bursts. Honestly he’s probably looking unwell because he had to keep his jacket on for longer than 60 secs.
Bill Arnold
@mali muso:
“three lefts make a right”
Steeplejack
Summing up:
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@Mo Salad: I had been thinking along these lines, but instead of voting for a democratic speaker of the house, just voting “present” and lowering the total vote count. Much more achievable for a spineless republican “moderate”. “I just couldn’t find anyone at that moment I wanted to vote for” they could say to the cameras.
Hypocritical B.S. but that’s really the republican style these days….
tobie
@BruceFromOhio: that’s true.
tobie
@Tim Ellis: that’s historical revisionism. Biden actually came a day later to tell the caucus — and specifically progressives — that sometimes you need to compromise and the reduced BBB that Pelosi had negotiated was quite alright. Progressives wanted to flex their muscle and scuttled the deal. They got squat.
Anyway
@mali muso:
Turner is not in The Squad! She wishes. She couldn’t win the D primary and is strictly dirtbag left — pure bad-faith actor with no principles.
Joey Maloney
The idea of Ben Shapiro beating up on anyone…
RaflW
@Sister Golden Bear: One to three more feet of snow around Tahoe. Heavenly ski area, on the south side, was partially without electricity for a few days after the last blockbuster snowstorm, and they’re still digging out lifts and knocking off 30 year record-breaking rime ice off some upper lift structures.
danielx
@Joey Maloney:
Did I miss something?
RaflW
@YY_Sima Qian: Boebert is a clear example of this. She ran in an easy R district, as an incumbent (albeit with some boundary changes). She finally won by about 500 votes.
A rational person might look at that as a very, very close call and change tack. She’s an idiot, of course, but also fully blinkered and charging ahead with all the crap that came so close to tanking her. Fascinating (and horrible).
James E Powell
@YY_Sima Qian:
True. Unfortunately, the voters haven’t done that despite being given several opportunities to do so.
TriassicSands
The only thing dumber than a House Republican is a Republican voter.
BellyCat
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Sorry to just now learn you’ve been sick, but glad you’re recovering!
rikyrah
@Sister Golden Bear:
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
fancycwabs
I just want someone to nominate Trump for the speakership at noon today just to get Republicans on the record voting against him.
I have been told, “this is a terrible idea, what if he wins?”
Trump didn’t really want to be President–he wanted the title and the prestige, but not the work. You think he would actually take a job where a good part of his day is sitting in public view without a cell phone connected to the internet, listening to people call him “Mr. Speaker” and then whatever nonsense they pull out? That would be AMAZING.
Yes, Biden and Harris would need to quadruple their security details. But it would be amazing.
Sasha
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It is not the responsibility of the Democratic Party to save the Republican Party from itself.
I’m glad that current Dem leadership gets this.