It doesn’t really matter anymore who wins Speaker. House Republicans are in chaos, crisis, confusion and crazy. A cheap circus is better organized than this mess.
Dems retake House in 2024, guaranteed. Worth noting GOP only won House by 3,000 votes nationwide.
Trump declined to say whether he’s sticking by his endorsement of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy for speaker, telling NBC News: “We’ll see what happens.”
In other news – Ukraine put a lot of hurt into the russian military with an artillary hit on a barracks. Seems the idiots decided and ammunition dump would be nice to keep their conscripts company. At first the russians reported sixty some were killed. Now it is around ninety. Anytime the russians give a number multiple it by ten. That means about a battalion or regiment was wiped out in seconds. The Ukraine number was at least four hundred and about the same number wounded. On the same day Ukraine reported killing about five hundred more. That was one expensive day for russians and a blow to their plans. It does not do much for the hearth and home people either.
looks like he’s waiting to see who the likely winner is so he can back him/her (unless, of course, he thinks they’re gonna vote him in to the next-in line-after-vp position which he’ll use as a jumping off place to call out the mob again and it’s “beware, joe & kamala, of your over friendly SS detail”).
The House of Representatives adjourned for the day without electing Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, while new Congressman George Santos has told so many lies that he shouldn’t be sworn into office.
3 strikes for McCarthy — but he’s not out yet – POLITICO
applicable not just to kevin, but to the whole GOPer clown car
Lincoln Project revives Liz Truss lettuce challenge to mock Kevin McCarthy’s chances of becoming House leader (msn.com)
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
That picture at the bottom: is that Scump or Savanarola?
Torquemada?
tweet from the peanut gallery in the capitol watching the debacle down the hall
more of lil lindsey’s musings according to
Dems can’t deal with McCarthy because you can’t trust him. He’s long since sold his moral compass to a pompous non-compos mental reject.
Graham has no choice. He’s in it up to his upper lip.
Two roads diverged in a yellow congress
Kevin took the one most traveled by and that has made the difference.
He had a normal healthy human reaction on Jan 6……one road.
He reacted to his reaction by, with fluttering heart, racing like the wind down into the stink of lower florida to perform an act of obeisance by kneeling at the feet of — him.
Road number two.
When these goobers gonna vote again ?
Dear Kev
Have you ever heard the old aviation phrase, “feathered, crashed, and burned”?
I’m looking forward to the eviction of McCarthy from the speaker’s office.
I really hope Gym Jordan a prominent supporter of pedophile rights becomes speaker.
Hah. Tough shit, Kev. Numbers wise you have almost as much support in your caucus as Hakeem has in his. Percentagewise, sorry, but no cigar. good luck, sucka.
KGC – gqp Gym does not have the votes. This should be an interesting afternoon. I just got back from the commissary with a pack of chicken wings, some will be dinner; dinner will be very nice if the voting keeps on with failings.
Right now I am all for not having the Dems contaminate themselves by helping the anti-Americans. However, maybe next week offer a compromise with Dems running the show with the support of a dozen plus of “moderate” anti-Americans.
Hah! Goops doing anything and everything they can to slow the process down and figure out how to not look like they are as stupid as they looked yesterday
Well, Kevin just failed on vote number four. Looks like the attempt not to look as stupid as they did. Yesterday is also failing.
And as a bonus to the country, Dumbass wasn’t able to get any of the dissenting Republicans to change their vote today. Of course you could miss the irony of dumb ass warning the Republicans that to continue the way that they are would be embarrassing?
McCarthy loses a fourth ballot. Couldn’t even get enough votes for a motion to adjourn which is reportedly what his team wanted
I don’t think the Dems should have any problem with no speaker for as long as it takes. I am sure Gym can claw his way up from his 20 votes
Straight from the Inagural address of regaen “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
That is where the twenty plus present are living. No government shall exist. And as a side note, they cheer for puttie and want to destroy Ukraine and all its people.
Best thing about not having a Speaker there are no rules controlling CSPAN cameras, so we’re seeing all the negotiations on the floor right now.
KC, actually they are throwing support behind Byron Donalds (FL).
WaPo noted that:
Keep an eye on that “present” ploy – if a number, say 35, of the 435 MOCs vote present (or don’t vote) that lowers the number needed to be elected Speaker to 201 (half of the votes for named candidates plus 1).
Pogo – if the gqp go with a “present” vote they would run the risk of 212 Dems voting for Jefferies and less than that voting for McCarthy so Dems take the speakers chair.
patD – I don’t think it matters which Republican critter gets to be SOTH, I fear for the safety of Joe & Kamala. There are many who were complicit in J6 and they can not be trusted.
pogo – Shhh! Don’t let them know.
McCarthy loses fifth vote
Wow Boebert openly defied her hero Trump in her nominating speech for Donalds. “He called us to tell us to knock this off. I say he should tell McCarthy to withdraw”
Motion to adjourn:
“Run Awaaaaaaay!”
BiD, not quite so worried at the moment because with no speaker of house the senate pro tem is next in line of succession and i doubt if any of the rightwing nut jobs want patti murray to become prez.
‘course not all rwnj know that so there is still cause to worry
santos didn’t seem to know his name when they just called it 3 times before he finally looked up to vote – too late and had to vote later. maybe that really isn’t his name.
Five down ??? to go… BB, you are correct. It would be a VERY risky gambit for the ‘pugs. BID, as long as 212 Dems are in the vote and vote as they have, best case is that McCarthy would have to flip 12 of the dissenters and have 9vote present to prevail. (Snowflake in hell scenario) This is being discussed on MSNBC so it’s not exactly a political secret, but mum’s the word.
patd, aliases can be a difficult thing to manage – you have to remember which one you’re using when, and that can be difficult if like me you have a raging case of CRS.
McCarthy loses sixth vote
“Now I know why Tigers eat their young”
R. Dangerfield
So, are they going to try for a record? Someone on the internet tubes said it is a 133, in 1855. Pre civil war times.
Jack
5,000 years of organized human warfare , and the frickin Russians are sleeping next to their ammo dumps.
Here is a link
Yogi would love this – being as with each successive vote it’s deja vu all over again.
Meanwhile in the real world ………….
The French ski industry is closed, Warsaw beat it’s all time heat record for Jan. by 5 degrees.
And the Pacific is “locked and loaded” with these “bomb cyclones” coming in , a bipolar development for the West.
CPR classes are filling up.
52 years ago today at the Mineral Hot Springs ………..
It was -55 F at night , and -40F in the day, with zero wind for a week. The wood smoke from our stoves barely made it to 2 feet above the flue , before the heat was killed .
The smoke just gave up and rolled down the roofs.
The last gasp , before man murdered winter.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-year-in-cheer-2022/
Oils Man –
“Nine US cities now have the capacity to generate 3.5 gigawatts of solar power, more than the entire country did just a decade ago.”
“Norway is developing a heat pump that could allow one fifth of all European industry to cut its energy use by 70%.”
“Nearly two thirds of Stuttgart, Germany — a total of 207 square kilometers, inhabited by more than 630,000 people — is green space, and nearly half of that is forest.”
“In the first half of 2022, solar and wind power made up 67% of newly added electrical capacity in the US.”
“Sweden sends just 1% of its trash to landfills. The rest is recycled or converted into energy.”
“Emissions-free energy sources provided 38 percent of global power in 2021, more than coal for the first time ever.”
“850 tons of CO2 emissions were saved in Austria thanks to a program that encourages citizens to repair their broken items instead of replacing them.”
One last item ……….
Helium is short supply . A very important thing , no MRI with out it.
I wish we could convert greving from mylar balloons to planting trees.
House comes back at 8pm
Howard Stern nails it: “The reason the dude can’t become Speaker is that these Republicans have let in so many kooks that the kooks will not vote for him”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/byron-donalds-speaker-nomination/index.html
“Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who nominated Donalds, got two standing ovations from both sides of the aisle, including from GOP leader Kevin McCarthy when he said, “For the first time in history there have been two Black Americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the House.”
“Donalds voted for McCarthy on the first two ballots, but broke from the majority of his colleagues to vote for Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on the third ballot with conservative hardliners.”
“During his first campaign, Donalds described himself in a political ad as a “Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/investing/alan-greenspan-fed-recession/index.html
“Wage increases and, by extension, employment, “still need to soften further for a pullback in inflation to be anything more than transitory,” said Greenspan.”
What absolute BS! Inflation is due to corporate greed, period.
Well, and he’s a pussy. He makes Nancy look like a WWF champion.
lol, that’s utter nonsense, wages are primary driver of inflation in any economic system
When you triple the minimum wage, guess what? The businesses that employ those people have to charge triple
Inflation is demand vs supply.
Reduce demand lowers inflation as does increasing supply.
With the increased tariffs, reduced immigration and covid we have a reduction of supply. Meanwhile, with the government passing out money like Halloween candy, the Fed’s zero interest on top of Trump’s tax cuts, demand went through the roof.
It was a perfect storm.
Jack
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088346603/two-inflation-indicators-corporate-greed-and-mortgage-rates
“Markets are less competitive. More and more companies have tried to merge into bigger companies over the last couple of years. Corporate profits have hit these 70-year highs, and inflation is at 40-year highs.”
“In a concentrated market, one firm could announce it’s going to raise prices because of inflation. And its rivals might look at that and say, oh, this is a good excuse to raise prices. They’re raising prices, so we should match. And we should announce we’re raising prices also. We call this tacit collusion.”
BiD, don’t you know ANYTHING? ~~~
HMMM. Seems you just might know SOMETHING. 😉
“Greedflation”
And the banks get in to the grab for cash. The feds raise interest rates to squelch “inflation” which means credit card interest rates skyrocket. End result, average person living paycheck to paycheck pays for the inflation caused by corporate greed.
charging the highest price the market will bear is pre-econ 101, but y’all can make up whatever bullshit you like, i suppose
You can’t finagle capitalism into a fair economic system, it’s inherently unfair
CEO compensation is so high partly because good leadership is hard to find, look at the House of Representatives, for example, they can’t even pick one out of 435
i expect all of you to voluntarily take a pay cut to mitigate inflation, everyone has to do their part, right?
“Hey, Boss, inflation’s killing me, please pay me less”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-speaker-battle-nancy-pelosi-happy-hell-gop-chaos-van-drew-says
“New Jersey Republican Rep.-elect Jeff Van Drew told Fox News Digital that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is “happy as hell” with the chaos surrounding the GOP speaker chaos.”
Nope. Faux News is wrong, again. (I, however, have enjoyed this week.)
https://twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/1610836582747222016
“All who serve in the House share a responsibility to bring dignity to this body.”
“Sadly, Republicans’ cavalier attitude in electing a Speaker is frivolous, disrespectful and unworthy of this institution.”
“We must open the House and proceed with the People’s work.” -Nancy Pelosi
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