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

What specifically did that approach accomplish for them? And more importantly for the American people and their constituents?

and this time it is Dem action that put us here.

 

No, it was the actions of Matt Gaetz and his friends who put us here. The Democrats did not put us here - their votes have not changed at all from January to now regarding the Speaker.

 

Ali Vitali
@alivitali

NEW: Some House Dem mods have received calls from GOP counterparts asking them to vote to save McCarthy’s job, four sources familiar tell
@nbcnews
. One source describing those calls as “begging,” another describing them as “temperature taking.” W/
@GarrettHaake
@ryanobles

 

It’s about the end game. The Dems played this same game in January and what resulted was a speaker completely beholden to the extremists in the GOP. Exactly how is doubling down on this approach going to result in a better outcome?

While I enjoy laughing at the disfunction of the GOP as much as the next guy…and some point the house has to govern. And I’d argue that a GOP speaker constrained by rules that Dems play a big part in drafting is a much better place than the alternatives

 

Republicans have agency. If they did not want chaos, they should not have given the majority to their chaos agent wing.

I don't see how this can be pinned on democrats at all.

 

I am confused by this reasoning. So the Dems have to save the GOPers from their own disfunction. Why on planet earth Jeffries would let his caucus vote for a pathological liar, w/out some written commitments and rule changes? This is beyond BS!

PS. 6 GOP yes. We may have crossed the Rubicon already....Kevin is no more speaker if the Dems hold the line as expected.

 

It's called enabling.

 

I don't think that's what's being suggested at all, although it would be part of the fallout, yes.

Why? If there's any reason to believe not doing so would result in an even-worse outcome, of course.

 

This stuff has ben debated at length here. I trust the House Dems and their leadership know what they are doing by not supporting Kevin.

 

I didn't know about that part of the process......

What’s Next
by Josh Marshall
Kevin McCarthy lost the first procedural vote. It now seems almost certain that he’ll lose the real vote and be ousted from the Speakership. Then the House Clerk will reveal a letter in which McCarthy placed a list of names of people who could serve as Speaker pro tem if McCarthy could no longer serve. The first name on that list will almost certainly be a loyalist.

So we’ll have McCarthy ousted but almost certainly still determined to reclaim the chair. The temporary Speaker will be one of his loyalists. It’s unclear whether that new temporary Speaker will have to start holding elections for a new Speaker literally immediately or whether he has a bit of flexibility. That person will almost certainly make that choice in the interests of McCarthy regaining the Speakership.

 

This is truly dereliction of duty from J Martin. Truly garbage on the day the GOP is self immolating. What a f**** hack.


Jonathan Martin
@jmart

Line of succession: A smart Repub notes that we're on verge of having a soon-to-be-81-year-old potus, a vp w scant experience on world stage (to be charitable) and a vacancy in the speakership

 

That's fine, and I'm not trying to persuade you otherwise. I'm just answering the specific questions that you asked.

 

Was the bolded even on the table? I think Kev himself said he would not approach the dems with any proposals to get their support. So, not sure how those rules would be drafted and adopted by the House.