GOP Failure Watch Part VI (Majority in House Edition) The Insurrection Caucus Sh*tshow.

First page!!

 

Is Hunter Biden the new Benghazi?

Will Joe Biden be impeached because he breathes?

How long until Kevin McCarthy is forced out as Speaker and will it be due to scandal, stupidity, sickness or something else?

America wants to know!

 

We are gonna be in for a wild ride!!

NOW: a senior dem member has shared that moderate Rs have reached out suggesting that if McCarthy wins by making these Freedom Caucus concessions, some moderates will work with Dems to vote down that rules package.

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 6, 2023

 

Any hip-hop aficionados notice that Hakeem Jeffries just did Papoose with his ABCs of Democracy?

 

Yes
Yes
Approximately 1 year, but he will be subject to recall votes before that.

Know you know!

 

According to CNN, these are the concessions. I'm not sure these even get approved by the house.

 

I don’t think Biden will be impeached because I think the GOPs won’t be able to hold enough moderates. There will be at least 5 GOP no votes.

 

The concessions made by McCarthy mainly seem to fall into two categories: efforts to try to force extremely unpopular spending cuts, and efforts to ensure that the House majority fights back directly against prosecutions of Trump and/or his cronies. Both of these, if put into practice, will be politically toxic for the GOP members who were elected in Biden districts.

Because of this, I'd expect the Republican leadership to try to focus their efforts on something like getting rid of funding for IRS enforcement - enabling rich people to evade taxes is something that all Republican factions agree on. They'll also hold a lot of investigations that produce cable TV soundbites and headlines in right wing media, but probably don't accomplish much. I don't think that'll be satisfactory to the extremists in the long term, though.

If I had to pick one issue with the potential to provoke a crackup in the GOP, I'd say it's probably Ukraine aid. Cutting off Ukraine so that Putin can run rampant is a key priority of the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, but other important members and leaders are firmly anti-Russia - remember, Russia was the one and only issue area where the GOP legislature resisted Trump during his presidency. I don't see a lot of room for compromise there.

 

Impeachment only requires a majority, and I would like to know who those "No" votes would be.

You are an optimist!

 

He must be lonesome!

 

So what are the talking points that relate to the "weaponization" thing? Is this about the IRS? I sincerely have no idea WTF they're even getting at with this one.

 

he did the entire alphabet with no teleprompter. FLYING WITHOUT A NET. pic.twitter.com/JGsp0gOrCP

— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 7, 2023

 

Just wait.
Just wait.
They will come up with SOMETHING. It will be bull crap, but they will come up with something.

Excellent point.