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He doesn't always vote in favor of bidens bills himself for optics, but no bipartisan support occurs without his back-room approval.  Most bills Biden wanted, he passed.  Biden got 5 major bills passed in 2022 alone and they passed omnibus bill to avoid Mccarthy shit show.
Kevin is such a lying snake in the grass. Gaetz and Gosar are no better, but I’m honestly glad they called Kevin’s bluff and then had the good sense to confirm it with a dem directly. >

They demonize AOC, but by going to her they just showed they respect her integrity.  IMHO anyway. 
That or they’re going to twist the exchange and go after her. >

It's not personal. It's all calculated. Trump is the only one who takes it personally. >

You’re absolutely right >


The New York congresswoman later told reporters that she had been reassuring Gosar and Gaetz that Democratic leadership wasn’t planning a side deal to buttress McCarthy. “McCarthy was suggesting he could get Dems to walk away to lower his threshold,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept of her talk with Gaetz. “And I fact checked and said absolutely not.” >

Smart. 
The Democrats are doing exactly what they should be doing. They have no reason to help McCarthy. He's a unrepentant liar; any deal he would make is not going to be honored.
Letting the holdouts know that they're not cutting a deal with McCarthy means they'll keep the clown show going in hopes that McCarthy caves to them. 
The Republicans continue looking like shaved apes, and the Democrats continue looking like adults that have their shit together. >

If Mccarthy is not willing to suck democrats' dick harder than he is freedom Caucus's, then no deal. >

He could have the throat of Nancy Reagan and it still wouldn't inspire Democrats to help him. >

FLOTUS was the THROATUS GOATUS. >

Jomboy did a great attempt at a breakdown of the lip read >

Idiocracy, a Breakdown. >

Fox News: Democrats hate America because they won't lower the majority threshold. >

I mean, if they did, then Jeffries would be speaker... >

Since when does Fox "News" care about reality? >

This is actually a tiny, fascinating part of today's story. It perfectly lays out just how terribly haphazard and desperate McCarthy's "strategy" for securing the votes was/is. 
He bluffs his caucus about working with the Dems. His detractors walk across the room and get confirmation that McCarthy has no clothes. Gaetz and Gosar return to the Never Kevins knowing McCarthy is full of shit and that he's just lied to them.
McCarthy may yet end up as speaker, but if today and then last decade are any indication, he's going to be so incredibly fucking awful at it. >

There will not be a republican speaker without dem support.  Republicans in house are so fundamentally fractured and uncompromising that wo dem support, no one gop faction will have enough votes. >

Bare minimum, if Kev has to beg the Dems to bail him out then they need to negotiate a deal where Jeffries is effectively Co-Speaker of the House. He gets to seat as many Democrats on choice committees as McCarthy does with Republicans and give him the power to knock down the worst of the Republican horseshit coming down the pipe. No Benghazi style sham investigations and grandstanding. No holding up debt ceiling votes because they got their feelings hurt or whatever. Just sensible governance. >

Sounds like a win win, but I think Mccarthy is too right to go for it even tho far right things he's too moderate/left. >

I don't think it's an issue of left/right, more like Kevin is out of his depth and has a poor sense of strategy, man can't help but step on his dick to own the libs >

That's given considering he broke a 100 yr record and tripled down just to fail.  Dude is hopeless when even McConnell has been working bipartisan lately.  He's an absolute obstructionist and he probably can't even explain why. >

McConnell is a realist who knows when to back down and when to press the advantage, he's also an expert at keeping his caucus disciplined and on message using both carrot (access to his fundraising apparatus) and stick (committee assignments). He had his own challenge for leadership and shut that shit down within days of it being announced in the news.
In comparison, McCarthy is a pigeon shitting on the chessboard telling himself that it's a win. >

Yeah, I may not like McConnell, but I can understand him.  Dude is one of the most effective politician gop has ever had.  And, at the end of the day, all he does is what he believes will benefit the GOP and his relationship w Biden did much to humanize him for me.   Mccarthy doesn't even have best interest of GOP in mind.  He's void of any respectable qualities. >

Didn't McConnell 'agree' with Biden a couple times on significant legislation just to end up giving him the metaphorical middle finger at the very last moment? 
I totally agree that he's very intelligent and makes great moves that benefit him in the end, but I don't see much bipartisanship between him and Biden besides things that are strictly in his favor. 
Did I miss something? Genuinely asking, because I would love it if he wasn't 1000% looking out for only himself.