There really ought to be a rule that you can't be nominated without throwing your hat into the ring.
What would have happened if a rule existed that if Jordan refused the nomination, the votes couldn't be cast?
Kevin McCarthy
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What would have happened if a rule existed that if Jordan refused the nomination, the votes couldn't be cast?
Boehner all over again.
And then there's this:
Storms over to try and make a fight with Gaetz. Then starts to walk away, changes his mind and storms back over to bitch some more. Will surely strip Gaetz of his committees and work hard to primary him. I'd give anything to know what was said in that exchange.
This is the bullshit we get with a "Republican" as Speaker, so how are we better off than if we'd gotten Hakeem Jeffries?
I feel for Gaetz. You don't go against the mob. Apparently Republicans aren't allowed free speech and dissent, either, making them exactly like the ****ing Democrats.
This clown that Kevin McCarthy is worse than:
Flip all of that around and you have the Democrat Party. And McCarthy STILL sucks just as much and he proved it by attacking the Reps who wouldn't kiss his ass.
Flip all of that around and you have the Democrat Party. And McCarthy STILL sucks just as much and he proved it by attacking the Reps who wouldn't kiss his ass.
They used to broadcast the Parliament fist fights on the news once in a while.These guys have a long way to go to match the antics of overseas governments. The Japanese and Brits are good for that.
I’d love to see a congressional cage match.
Hijinx
Well-Known Member
Everything he said was a freaking lie. A freaking lie. It took balls to lie like that when we all know it was a lie.
Among other concessions wrung from the GOP were the following agreed improvements:
— A single member can move to elect a new speaker, a decades-old rule eliminated during Pelosi’s bloody reign.
— Votes on term limits will be allowed, as well as on the adoption of a budget resolution that balances the budget in 10 years.
— The House will cap fiscal year 2024 spending at FY 2022 levels.
— The House will reject any spending bills with the Senate until the Senate passes its own spending caps.
— The House will not increase the debt limit absent matching spending cuts or other fiscal reforms.
— The House can once again reduce or de-fund the salaries of specific federal officials, like Fauci, if he were still employed by the government.
— Three members of the House Freedom Caucus will be seated on the key House Rules Committee, which sets the House’s terms of debate.
The rebellious legislators also extracted promises for two new committees:
— A committee to examine the weaponization of government against U.S. citizens, described as a “Church-style” committee, including Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, and Jim Jordan.
— A committee ensuring no more bills are brought up on the floor until at least 72 hours have passed, giving members time to review them.
Representative Mary Miller (D-IL) described the final dealmaking as a victory that will stop any more insane Biden omnibus spending bills:
www.coffeeandcovid.com
— A single member can move to elect a new speaker, a decades-old rule eliminated during Pelosi’s bloody reign.
— Votes on term limits will be allowed, as well as on the adoption of a budget resolution that balances the budget in 10 years.
— The House will cap fiscal year 2024 spending at FY 2022 levels.
— The House will reject any spending bills with the Senate until the Senate passes its own spending caps.
— The House will not increase the debt limit absent matching spending cuts or other fiscal reforms.
— The House can once again reduce or de-fund the salaries of specific federal officials, like Fauci, if he were still employed by the government.
— Three members of the House Freedom Caucus will be seated on the key House Rules Committee, which sets the House’s terms of debate.
The rebellious legislators also extracted promises for two new committees:
— A committee to examine the weaponization of government against U.S. citizens, described as a “Church-style” committee, including Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, and Jim Jordan.
— A committee ensuring no more bills are brought up on the floor until at least 72 hours have passed, giving members time to review them.
Representative Mary Miller (D-IL) described the final dealmaking as a victory that will stop any more insane Biden omnibus spending bills:
☕️ A GOOD MOM ☙ Saturday, January 7, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Fracas in the Caucus, as McCarthy elected Speaker; Florida hires conservative super-activist for higher-ed; DeSantis occupies Reedy Creek; journalists, surfers, and Buffalo Bills get SADS; and more.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
Meet the new boss.... (insert wanking emoji here)
Congress has been saying these things my whole entire life and so far the only politician who tried to follow through on it was Donald J. Trump, and he found out right quick that it was just blather and they had no intention of doing any such things.
Like term limits - are any of those grifters going to vote to retire themselves? (The answer is no, they're not.)
Balancing the budget - this has been a campaign promise MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE and not one time has it been done.
Spending caps - again, MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE.
:wankwankwank:
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
The cheat was on in 2016 for Clinton they just didnt cheat enough and they underestimated the votes that Trump would get ,but they made up for it in 2020
*Technically* they balanced it in 1998 (but not how I would measure it). What they’ve never been able to do is codify it in law, and part of that is because some members are worried it would stymie things in a time of emergency. Yeah. No, they just don’t want to do it.
Meet the new boss.... (insert wanking emoji here)
Congress has been saying these things my whole entire life and so far the only politician who tried to follow through on it was Donald J. Trump, and he found out right quick that it was just blather and they had no intention of doing any such things.
Like term limits - are any of those grifters going to vote to retire themselves? (The answer is no, they're not.)
Balancing the budget - this has been a campaign promise MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE and not one time has it been done.
Spending caps - again, MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE.
:wankwankwank:
States have made it law.
I’m willing to at least see them try.
GregV814
Well-Known Member
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half-alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do you?
Yeah
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Submit Corrections
Thanks to stuart garden, Metalhed2000, Richard Burden for correcting these lyrics.
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half-alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do you?
Yeah
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Submit Corrections
Thanks to stuart garden, Metalhed2000, Richard Burden for correcting these lyrics.
Hijinx
Well-Known Member
That was pretty shameful.
Hijinx
Well-Known Member
Matt Gaetz vs Kevin McCarthy & Mike Rogers
Democracy in action. The Honorable Gentlemen acting like 6th. graders.