the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion

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Well that's the whitest moment in U.S. history.  Does Edgar Winter know his son is now Speaker of the House?  

[Dbeasy 15052]

I can’t see any scenario where Gaetz doesn’t get booted from Congress. The moderates have to weaken that group and the ethic investigation gives them cover to do it, unless the wizard of oz behind the curtain won’t allow the Pubs to do it. But I have a hard time believing the true decision makers behind the curtain are aligned either. 

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

44 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

1.) This is mildly terrifiyng.

2.) Listen, Salt & Vinegar chips are my jam. So are Salt & Vinegar almonds. Pretty much anything. But the idea of some kind of salt & vinegar...sauce? I mean, fuck and no. That is revolting, espesically if it has a cream consistenty. But even just dipping something into a cup of plain vinegar? No thanks. 

Have you never seen the whole skit? 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

Fuck you, Kevin. 

[Js1 85353]

So from my reading, McHenry has all of the powers of the Speaker in this capacity.  And he can continue to serve in this capacity until a new Speaker is chosen.  Or they can just...not.  And he''d stay in that role, but I guess not in the presidential line of succession because he wasn't "elected" by the House. 

[DaysOff 7951]

who in their right mind would try and step up and lead this group of republicans? 
is the most likely outcome here that the dems + a handful of moderate republicans pick the next speaker?

Chip Roy come on down...you're the next contestant

[cactusflinthead 27598]

 

[Js1 85353]

1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Ann, it's not that serious.

[kevwun 15790]

Maybe they should read the part of the Bible where it talks about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

[SydneyCarton 48108]

2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Have you never seen the whole skit? 

 

Sir, I'm not going to be ashamed for not having a working knowledge of all of Amy fucking Schumer's skits. 

[Pancho 44825]

 

 

[Bullneck 19107]

Here's Bow Tie Boy in action earlier this year:

 

Edited October 3, 2023 by Bullneck

[SpiralOut 1813]

I'd be happy for that entire party to completely implode.  

They obstruct the government for decades.  Then they try overthrowing the fucking government.  

Break 'em up.  Bout time we moved past the bullshit, idiotic two-party system anyway.  

['stache 21817]

[cactusflinthead 27598]

 

[SydneyCarton 48108]

2 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Here's Bow Tie Boy in action earlier this year:

 

Oh damn, he's a fucking liliputian. 

[Js1 85353]

2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

She was Speaker TWICE and McCarthy couldn’t even last a year 

[A-Tex Devil 2446]

Hmmmmm..... isn't the smart play by GOP to not have another vote and just move on with business as usual with McHenry up there?  I am trying to understand incentive to bother with another vote.

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2 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

He's Bow Tie Boy in action earlier this year:

 

Nobody ever explained why that Congressman in the salmon colored tie and bad toupee had to be dragged away from Gaetz by his face.  Come to think of it, I don't even know his name.  9 months of this theater and not a fucking ounce of dignity has been restored.  Plus tomorrow all of our 5G injections are be 'esploded...

['stache 21817]

Just now, A-Tex Devil said:

Hmmmmm..... isn't the smart play by GOP to not have another vote and just move on with business as usual with McHenry up there?  I am trying to understand incentive to bother with another vote.

Putin wants chaos, his handpuppets won't allow them to just move on, plus I imagine some rule requires a vote to make him full time speaker, but I have no idea, since this has never happened in american history, lol. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

Just now, A-Tex Devil said:

Hmmmmm..... isn't the smart play by GOP to not have another vote and just move on with business as usual with McHenry up there?  I am trying to understand incentive to bother with another vote.

That's what I keep wondering. Why go through the humiliation of trying to elect another neutered leader?

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

5 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I noticed she abstained from voting. 

['stache 21817]

Just now, WhatTheBuck said:

I noticed she abstained from voting. 

She was in California for Feinsteins funeral I think. I bet she had intel that it would pass without her, otherwise she'd probably vote if needed. 

[Js1 85353]

1 minute ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

That's what I keep wondering. Why go through the humiliation of trying to elect another neutered leader?

Because the Rules haven’t changed. Gaetz or someone can just file another MTV to weaken him or do this all over again 

[Gil Bang 25960]

Rep. Burchett on with Tapper.  Said that he was praying looking for guidance for which way to vote, McCarthy called him last night and "mocked" his faith.  He said right there he knew that he was voting to remove. 

[Captain Obvious 516]

5 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Hmmmmm..... isn't the smart play by GOP to not have another vote and just move on with business as usual with McHenry up there?  I am trying to understand incentive to bother with another vote.

McHenry can only do 3 things as speaker pro tempore:

1. recess the House
2. adjourn the chamber
3. recognize speaker nominations

They can't do shit without a speaker...which I guess is business as usual for this group.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Captain Obvious

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[Js1 85353]

1 minute ago, 'stache said:

She was in California for Feinsteins funeral I think. I bet she had intel that it would pass without her, otherwise she'd probably vote if needed. 

She accompanied the body back. The viewing is tomorrow. Of course she was in California. She couldn’t know there would be a MTV 2 days before the funeral. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Because the Rules haven’t changed. Gaetz or someone can just file another MTV to weaken him or do this all over again 

but that reality remains present whether or not they go through another very public goat rodeo of trying to elect another speaker?

[kevwun 15790]

Just now, Captain Obvious said:

McHenry can only do 3 things as speaker pro tempore:

recess the House

adjourn the chamber

recognize speaker nominations

They can't do shit without a speaker...which I guess is business as usual for this group.

Sounds like a good way to ride out this session.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

1 minute ago, Captain Obvious said:

McHenry can only do 3 things as speaker pro tempore:

1. recess the House
2. adjourn the chamber
3. recognize speaker nominations

They can't do shit without a speaker...which I guess is business as usual for this group.

where are you reading that?

[Beau Vine 54238]

5 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Hmmmmm..... isn't the smart play by GOP to not have another vote and just move on with business as usual with McHenry up there?  I am trying to understand incentive to bother with another vote.

Yes, but do you think the nutbags are going to be OK with McCarthy's hand-picked buddy running things?

[Biff Tannen 45691]

8 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

This needs to become an official measurement of time. 

[LCHorn 2620]

Nancy Mace can have it.  I guess maybe it gets you an adjunct professorship at the University of Charleston after you get primary’d for failing the Maga moron test, but otherwise I fail to see the appeal.  

[Jatrain 288]

Pubs got their talking points, hearing a lot of “National Debt” and “Border Crisis”.  
 

Chickenshit interviewers not mentioning them voting for Trump tax cuts that added a ton to the debt. 

[Captain Obvious 516]

Just now, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

where are you reading that?

"Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will now temporarily lead the House of Representatives after the speaker's position was vacated on Tuesday.

McHenry, who is a top ally of Kevin McCarthy, was appointed speaker pro tempore.

His name was on a list McCarthy was required to give to the clerk in case of a vacancy. 

The speaker pro tempore, which is the official title, can only recess the House, adjourn the chamber and recognize speaker nominations."

 

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-house-speakership-10-03-23/index.html 

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There's 15 months left in this Congress (albeit with some recesses).  They need a full-time speaker.  The Pro Tem was never designed to carry out committee assignments, oversee budget committee work with the Senate, serve as Head of Government to POTUS' Head of State role.  

This shitshow is just getting started.  This was the opening salvo in the Civil War we were all told was coming.  Only it isn't Red State v. Blue State.  They're going to kill each other.  

Anybody remember last week when the biggest affront to out Seat of Government, the U.S. Capitol, was Fetterman wearing a sweatshirt?  This week, the second most powerful person in our government was removed from power by a group of people who's backup plan is "Meh, we'll let JFK, Junior sort it out over crystal meth and tarot cards."  

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

1 minute ago, Jatrain said:

Pubs got their talking points, hearing a lot of “National Debt” and “Border Crisis”.  
 

Chickenshit interviewers not mentioning them voting for Trump tax cuts that added a ton to the debt. 

Hunter Biden has to be in there somewhere. 

['stache 21817]

Putins orders are to prevent the house from taking any action, specifically supporting Ukraine, so Gaetz and friends will get rich as fuck if they can delay this for long enough to shut the government down. He's a traitor, it's that simple, but fuck its fun the assholes who enabled this nonsense complaining that their party just can't seem to work together. 

[Js1 85353]

1 minute ago, Captain Obvious said:

"Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will now temporarily lead the House of Representatives after the speaker's position was vacated on Tuesday.

McHenry, who is a top ally of Kevin McCarthy, was appointed speaker pro tempore.

His name was on a list McCarthy was required to give to the clerk in case of a vacancy. 

The speaker pro tempore, which is the official title, can only recess the House, adjourn the chamber and recognize speaker nominations."

 

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-house-speakership-10-03-23/index.html 

it sounds like there isn't really a consensus on what the acting Speaker can and can't do. 

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"The Speaker pro tem could stay in the chair," Josh Huder, a senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "There's not [a] forcing mechanism for a new election, nor are there any overt restrictions on the power the pro tem would wield. The support of the conference would dictate the durability of this."

It's designed to be short-term, until someone is elected. But how long that is is up to interpretation. 

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3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

This needs to become an official measurement of time. 

Works out well because McCarthy's political clout only weighs about 6 Courics now...

[The Dog 44058]

Bears fans catching strays.

['stache 21817]

Just now, WhatTheBuck said:

Hunter Biden has to be in there somewhere. 

He could plop his giant dong on the table and it'd be louder than bowties gavel.

[Kyrie Eleison 9312]

 

[cactusflinthead 27598]

5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

This needs to become an official measurement of time. 

Scaramucci

A Scaramucci (or Mooch) is 11 (sometimes 10) days and is named after the length of White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci's tenure under President Trump.^{[48][49][50][51]}

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement

See also a Friedman

Friedman

Main article: Friedman (unit)

The Friedman is approximately six months, specifically six months in the future, and named after columnist Thomas Friedman who repeatedly used the span in reference to when a determination of Iraq's future could be surmised.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40][41]}

[The Dog 44058]

this won't happen unless the Democrats can convince those Republicans to switch parties:

 

[DDD Dad 14339]

5 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

"Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will now temporarily lead the House of Representatives after the speaker's position was vacated on Tuesday.

McHenry, who is a top ally of Kevin McCarthy, was appointed speaker pro tempore.

His name was on a list McCarthy was required to give to the clerk in case of a vacancy. 

The speaker pro tempore, which is the official title, can only recess the House, adjourn the chamber and recognize speaker nominations."

 

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-house-speakership-10-03-23/index.html 

Username does NOT check out.

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

it sounds like there isn't really a consensus on what the acting Speaker can and can't do. 

It's designed to be short-term, until someone is elected. But how long that is is up to interpretation. 

 

[Captain Obvious 516]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

it sounds like there isn't really a consensus on what the acting Speaker can and can't do. 

It's designed to be short-term, until someone is elected. But how long that is is up to interpretation. 

Awesome.  Give the two sides something else to fight about.  CSPAN ratings going through the roof in the short-term.

[The Dog 44058]

[Satchel 6938]

19 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Here's Bow Tie Boy in action earlier this year:

 

Why are there no guns present?