the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion

[horn4life 3781]

Hey Kevin.... thanks for going to Mar A Largo to suck cock for this...  and endangering the fucking country you whore!

 

The really, really, really good news.  Is that in a few days the millennials feeds will begin to trend about a joke happening int he GOP leadership.  They already think that the GOP is a racist and bigoted party, Republican "leadership" clearly has the dumb box checked, and I for one and hoping millennials get their accurate opinions of the GOP reinforced.

 

 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

 

[henrygandorf 29194]

 

[Ghost of LL 15539]

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

Remember there are about a dozen or so GOP reps who come from districts that Biden won. Those are the ones who will keep people like Jordan or MTG from becoming speaker.

Yeah—I don’t know who is going to be Speaker. But I do know it won’t be either McCarthy or Jordan.

[WBT 20652]

Has McCarthy considered handing out Wizard Willard tip calculators?  Maybe help other members cut their meat?

 

 

Edited January 4, 2023 by WBT
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[cactusflinthead 27601]

 

[Js1 85517]

1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

They gave Trump the Kari Lake filter there 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

 

[UTGrad98 2281]

Is there a limit to how many times the house can vote on a speaker or could  this last until summer?

[Ghost of LL 15539]

4 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Is there a limit to how many times the house can vote on a speaker or could  this last until summer?

It can last until January 2025.

[henrygandorf 29194]

6 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Is there a limit to how many times the house can vote on a speaker or could  this last until summer?

there is no limit.  i believe the last one (1923) took 9 ballots and the one before that (1855) took 133 ballots and over two months.

most of these (like 13/15) took place before the civil war and before the two-party system took over.

[Beau Vine 54377]

 

[WBT 20652]

6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

"We love you."  Yikes.

Edited January 4, 2023 by WBT

[Sbbruin 21866]

7 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

If this isn’t a perfect encapsulation of GOP dysfunction, I don’t know what is.  “We’re going to force it on someone who doesn’t even want it.  He’d be perfect!”

[Bateshorn 9929]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

@henrygandorfYeah, that's bullshit. Dems in disarray ain't what we saw today.

Did not know this. They'll never do it but C-SPAN ought to be in charge of the cameras full time.

 

I cannot, as a former House staffer and professional lobbyist, stress this enough. There was literally nothing in the cspan footage that indicated the Dems are breaking or wavering in the least.  They were goofing off, playing grabass in the well, just ear to ear smiles.  The CBC members were giving valedictory votes for Jefferies into the 3rd round. 
 

The only thing that caught my eye was Scalise wandered into the Dem well for a solid half hour. Bro hugs and shakes. Chatting up Dem ranking members. Just enjoying himself all around. 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

13 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

 

[Sawbonz 27583]

21 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Well consent never has been that important to Jordan

[Sawbonz 27583]

 

[Hermanator 7131]

2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

What you aren’t getting is that they aren’t in charge. Democrats have the plurality and should seek to maximize the value and durability of that position. That may mean a deal, or blowing up deals.

Ok smart guy, explain to us how they make a deal with people who won't honor deals. 

[Sawbonz 27583]

 

[Gengs1 2583]

47 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Who are they referring to? Who was it? 

[SydneyCarton 48149]

1 minute ago, Gengs1 said:

Who are they referring to? Who was it? 

Why don’t you google “list of house speakers” and look at the guy who shows up right after newt Gingrich? 

[Sbbruin 21866]

1 minute ago, Gengs1 said:

Who are they referring to? Who was it? 

Hastert, who’s now in prison

[Bozo_Casanova 26522]

8 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Ok smart guy, explain to us how they make a deal with people who won't honor deals. 

Who said they needed to make a deal?

[Bama Chick 28596]

[cactusflinthead 27601]

8 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

Who are they referring to? Who was it? 

 

[Aqua Buddha 14600]

14 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

 

He ain't wrong.

[Hermanator 7131]

4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Who said they needed to make a deal?

You said they should try to make a deal. I said there is no point in trying to make a deal because a deal would never be honored. Therefore the best thing is to do whatever necessary to stoke Republican hatred against each other. Don't even talk about a deal with anyone. Just stoke flames whatever way possible. 

[TeeDubya 3362]

[Hermanator 7131]

4 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

 

[henrygandorf 29194]

1 minute ago, Hermanator said:

Therefore the best thing is to do whatever necessary to stoke Republican hatred against each other. Don't even talk about a deal with anyone. Just stoke flames whatever way possible. 

or, hear me out, talk about a deal with everyone. 

[Hermanator 7131]

Just now, henrygandorf said:

or, hear me out, talk about a deal with everyone. 

There's no point. That could only galvanize them against you. You let them burn on their hatred for each other. 

[atomheartbevo 89777]

12 minutes ago, tchookem said:

Yo dawg, we heard you like obstructionism, so we put some obstruction in your obstructionism. /Xzibit

Let me just toss this in here.

 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

 

[atomheartbevo 89777]

I'm loving that Gaetz and Boebert are going to war against McCarthy, and they are facing off against people like MTG and Nancy Mace.

It's like poetry.

[Bozo_Casanova 26522]

17 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

You said they should try to make a deal. I said there is no point in trying to make a deal because a deal would never be honored. Therefore the best thing is to do whatever necessary to stoke Republican hatred against each other. Don't even talk about a deal with anyone. Just stoke flames whatever way possible. 

No. I said somebody should tell them a deal is to be had- to make them an offer and see where the offers lands and how.

The best way to divide them is to make them suspicious at an individual level of being left off the boat. 
For example - Jordan needs the McCarthy people and McCarthy needs Jordan himself. So I suggested an offer to McCarthy’s people that requires a Democrat Judiciary chair.  Why? Because:

1) it’s a nonstarter 

2) that’s the job Jordan wants and has been promised

Edited January 4, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[cactusflinthead 27601]

 

[YGIFS 19452]

52 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

If this isn’t a perfect encapsulation of GOP dysfunction, I don’t know what is.  “We’re going to force it on someone who doesn’t even want it.  He’d be perfect!”

well if there's one thing Jordan knows, it's getting comfortable with people having things they don't want forced it in them.  

[henrygandorf 29194]

5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

No. I said somebody should tell them a deal is to be had- to make them an offer and see where the offers lands and how.

The best way to divide them is to make them suspicious at an individual level of being left off the boat. 
For example - Jordan needs the McCarthy people and McCarthy needs Jordan himself. So I suggested an offer to McCarthy’s people that requires a Democrat Judiciary chair.  Why? Because:

1) it’s a nonstarter 

2) that’s the job Jordan wants and has been promised

so fucking aggy.

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Nancy Mace entering the Capitol earlier today.

 

[YGIFS 19452]

40 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

 

also, I'd have to ask my friend Art Vandelay for a snappy comeback to this like "But Congressman, this is an Arby's."  He's asking one of the most prominent architects to play sheriff, bust down the door, and move all of McCarthy's shit out of there?  

[cactusflinthead 27601]

2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

it’s a nonstarter

While we're in crazy pipedream land,

 

[BearSchlong 8109]

From my sibling who Dennis Hastert hired and who was a longtime Associate Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives. For years she sat in that little desk next to the speaker with her finger on the mute button, enforcing house precedent:

“As someone who has seen what an ordinary transition to a new House is supposed to look like, this dysfunction is blowing my mind. The American people elected a majority that literally is unable to govern!”

[Tuco 5077]

No. I said somebody should tell them a deal is to be had- to make them an offer and see where the offers lands and how.

The best way to divide them is to make them suspicious at an individual level of being left off the boat. 
For example - Jordan needs the McCarthy people and McCarthy needs Jordan himself. So I suggested an offer to McCarthy’s people that requires a Democrat Judiciary chair.  Why? Because:

1) it’s a nonstarter 
2) that’s the job Jordan wants and has been promised

It seems like that would tend to bring Jordan to heel rather than divide.

[Bullneck 19199]

9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

 

She used to be a bartender.  I'm sure she's had her share of horny drunks explain the ways of the world to her.  

[The Dog 44118]

hrm...

This was from earlier today. We aren't there yet but if we get to the weekend with no Speaker then this might just happen.

[Huckleberry 33068]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

 

While it's a good time to be driving wedges into GOP divides, someone should ask Gaetz why he didn't write a similar letter about Biden in the White House. He clearly supports Democrat Biden's victory more than he supports the Republican party leader. 

[Ghost of LL 15539]

McCarthy still has a suicide vest, and let’s see if he pulls the cord tomorrow before he loses any more ground. He can have his voters change the rules to a plurality-wins vote.  And that puts the Jordan 20 in a spot of either voting for McCarthy or, in effect, electing Jeffries.

Do you think there are 10 who hate Kevin McCarthy that much? Because I don’t.

[The Dog 44118]

3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

McCarthy still has a suicide vest, and let’s see if he pulls the cord tomorrow before he loses any more ground. He can have his voters change the rules to a plurality-wins vote.  And that puts the Jordan 20 in a spot of either voting for McCarthy or, in effect, electing Jeffries.

Do you think there are 10 who hate Kevin McCarthy that much? Because I don’t.

If he does that then I think Jeffries becomes speaker.

I say that because I'm not sure the 20 against McCarthy are actually interested in actually being in power. They just want to obstruct and cause chaos.

Edited January 4, 2023 by The Dog

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