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  Not smart enough but certainly desperate enough
context: The hits keep rolling in. I demand a recount! >
  
  
  One for Martin, two for Martin. Would you like another recount? >
  
  How many for Bart? >
  
  None. I do have a write-in for "Bort", though. >
  
  21 Republican rebels.  Needle has not even moved despite 'negotiations'. >
  
  What are their demands? More M&Ms? >
  
  Its been reported elsewhere they want to jump the pecking order for important committee assignments, defang the House ethics committee, all new spending to be offset by equal cuts to social programs rather than new taxes or cost saving measures, a guarantee the debt ceiling bill wont be 'clean' so they can force through all kinds of nonsense under the threat of a shutdown, to be able to bypass McCarthy to introduce bills straight to the floor, and a single vote threshold to remove McCarthy as speaker if he crosses any one of them. >
  
  Wow...that makes me want to vomit. >
  
  Don't forget they also want as much media exposure as they can get and no amount of concessions will get them more than they are right now blocking everything >
  
  Looking more and more like a handful of Republicans will have to vote with the dems then >
  
  Let the Republicans burn. No concessions beyond AOCs suggestions. >
  
  A handful of dems are saying that they are willing to support a compromise candidate, but that the cost will be high and that interested Republicans need to have their conversations with Jeffries if they want to get anywhere >
  
  GOP: “Jeffries!! I’ve come to bargain.”
  GOP: “Jeffries!! I’ve come to bargain.”
  GOP: “Jeffries!! I’ve come to bargain.” >
  
  Thats really good. >
  
  So he agreed to lower the threshold for a recall vote for the Speaker to... one. One single congressman can force the Speaker to defend his title at any time. And it return for this insane concession, he got... exactly 0 new votes. 
  Good Job Kevin. Absolutely killing it out there. >
  
  Democrats should recall him every day just for the hell of it. >
  
  They'd only have to do it once, that's the hilarious part. Every dem + 5 pissed off conservatives and McCarthy's out. These concessions are so moronic he truly doesn't deserve to be the Speaker because he's just not smart enough.