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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.
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.