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  That just feels like running up the score on McCarthy, if we include the undead remains of two competent and mildly evil GOP Legislators.
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. >
  
  Not smart enough but certainly desperate enough >
  
  I think something getting lost in this is that Kevin McCarthy simply isn't a great politician. I saw one quote that said his support was an inch deep and a mile wide. He doesn't have anyone truly loyal to him. His support is superficial.
  Boehner was a better politician and he couldn't keep the clownshow together with a 30+ seat majority. Even if McCarthy makes it to speaker, he has no shot. >
  
  Boehner was a giant sack of shit, but even HE saw the writing on the wall and got out before shit really went sideways.  I hope he's got permanent sunburn, but that motherfucker has been sippin' margaritas and enjoying his life while the GOP he left behind is busy trying to burn the country down. >
  
  I remember when Boehner went off stage from the loonies and said “I didn’t sign up for going up against the president.” He at least had some awareness of how fudged up the House was becoming and stepped down. >
  
  That's actually really nice to read. I remember he and Obama worked on 2 major omnibus bills ("Grand Bargin") which would have given both sides major wins. Boehner's House Tea Party members killed that for America. >
  
  He's a republican. I don't understand why he doesn't just claim victory despite losing. >
  
  Well he did already move into the Speaker’s office… >
  
  This has to be a joke >
  
  It's not. Gaetz sends letter to Architect of the Capitol asking why McCarthy is occupying Speaker’s office >
  
  I saw somewhere else that he had to vacate his previous office because his old job -- House Minority Leader -- has already been replaced. So I guess he had to put his crap somewhere. >
  
  if he did have to vacate his old office, then it's bold of him to assume he was going to get the Speaker's office. >
  
  If stuffs still in boxes, it's not that bad. They're just using an empty office to hold boxes. Right? :p >
  
  It depends on how confidential the documents in those boxes are. 
  If they are super top secret, i know a basement he can put it in. >
  
  Fucking Gaetz voted for Trump lmao >
  
  Beavis and Butthead gonna beavis and butthead >
  
  I always though he looked like Lord John Whorfin of the Red Lectroids myself. >
  
  Would that mean  Boebert is John Big Booty? >
  
  Big-boot-TAY!
  ^(...frickin' monkeyboys) >
  
  As of now even other Republicans are calling to engage with Democrats if nothing else as a negotiating tactic. McCarthy seems to think complete concession to these twenty is the only thing he can do but it’s not working so far. >
  
  The concessions with these extremists will never end. Even if he becomes speaker he can't accomplish anything without the democrats help. >
  
  He conceded to allow any single member of the House to bring up a recall vote against him. He's going to conceed to all sorts of things that compromise the integrity of the institution and then get tossed in the trash once the next session actually begins. >
  
  I don't even understand why he would concede that. Even if he wins it'll be two months before we're back here again. >
  
  You misspelled weeks.
  …and I just misspelled days. >
  
  That's a weird way to spell hours >
  
  Wow! I’ve never seen minutes spelled like that >
  
  You guys suck at spelling the word seconds. >
  
  You're all correct. After all, what is a month but a whole lot of days, hours, minutes and seconds? >
  
  While highly amusing, this is really a fight between the hard hard right and the rest and what they are showing is the extreme right is not going to give an inch. McCarthy gave a bunch of concession to them last night and the last few days, they are getting most of what they want, but they want ALL. They are making a show that the GOP must be an extreme right party or nothing else. >
  
  Exactly. The Republicans have to decide if they want to be controlled by this handful of nuts or vote for the Dem. Unfortunately I think I know what they will decide. >
  
  Well there is another outcome potentially... They reach over to Dems to back the majority pick, but I don't see that happening unless there are some equally big concessions.
  It would also look bad for every dem to have to explain constantly why they backed this asshole and the tomfuckery he's surely going to do. >
  
  
  They reach over to Dems to back the majority pick
  
  Considering what McCarthy has been proudly proclaiming they will do with the Republican controlled House, the Dems have zero incentive to allow that to happen. Have the Republicans put forth another candidate, a candidate more to the Dems' liking, and then maybe they'll make some progress. >
  
  The dems would be foolish to trust anything a republican promised.  139 Republican house members votes against certifying the electors in 2021.  The majority of them. >
  
  They can get concessions written into the House rules so it isn't just his word.
  It would be worth making a deal with McCarthy to get concessions along the lines of: 1) you'll let us get votes on our bills instead of burying them without a vote, 2) you change the rules to let us get stuff out of committee, 3) add a recall provision that allows the minority leader to recall McCarthy if he tries to remove these concessions by changing the rules after he is Speaker.
  It's not like the Dems get the House back if McCarthy goes down. That just means another Republican will eventually get voted in. It's a major win if the Dems can get a rules change that allows forcing a vote on bills despite a GOP speaker, aka repealing the House filibuster. Then e.g. we can force Republicans to actually vote against a higher minimum wage, cannabis legalization, and other popular bills instead of these things just getting "filibustered" forever and also opens the door for picking off a few moderate Republicans on bills. As it stands, it doesn't matter if the Dems have enough moderate support for a bill, McCarthy can singlehandedly block it from reaching a vote to deny Biden a win.
  Weed likely has a majority in the House but would never get a vote because the Speaker can prevent a vote and McCarthy doesn't want Biden to get a big win like "the President who finally legalized weed." So this isn't hypothetical. >
  
  Good news everyone, it's just as funny as the first six times >
  
  I think it’s getting exponentially funnier >
  
  It's all a joke to the MAGA Republicans. Matt Gaetz just voted for Trump as Speaker. Marjorie Taylor Greene can be seen in this video laughing and ribbing Gaetz, while other GOP colleagues laugh too.^[1] It should be noted that MTG voted for McCarthy.
  National Security matters can not be addressed until Congress is seated, but the far-right MAGAs are treating national security and governance as a joke. MAGA Republicans are a national security risk.^[2]
  MAGA Republicans don't care about veterans. Congress can't follow through on previous legislation, that was passed under Speaker Pelosi's stewardship, to provide care and benefits for veterans.^[3]
  
  1) Twitter Video - Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) votes for Donald Trump for Speaker of the House.
  2) The Bulwark - House Is Paralyzed Without a Speaker—Creating National Security Risks and a Shadow Shutdown
  3) Military Times - House Speaker impasse hurting national security, vet lawmakers warn >
  
  Please post in conservatives >
  
  you will be blocked and your account will be shutdown.
  believe me, i’ve tried to explain some things over there. >
  
  How do they rectify the glaring hypocrisy over there when they complain relentlessly about free speech and censorship? >
  
  That the point their political platform is facism >
  
  The only thing these people want is to block McCarthy just to fuck with the GOP and show their fan base that they are "draining the swamp". They don't care about these promises, all their want is to make the mainstream GOP suffer. They want McCarthy's head for the sake of it, not because of policy differences. >
  
  No matter the motive, the result is the same, Dems smiling ear to ear and having a great time with it >
  
  I'd trade it for a functioning house of congress, but it's hilarious at the moment. 
  I do worry that these 20ish radicals are going to get a fuckton of concessions and push the whole R party to the right even more.
  If there's one thing the Republican voter base loves, it's a show of STRENGTH. >
  
  I'll take no congress over a Republican controlled congress any day. >
  
  Government default is bad though. Like actually really really bad. But if it weren't for that... >
  
  assuming they werent going to let it happen anyway? they've either tried or successfully forced shutdowns every chance they got. having a speaker seated has nothing to do with whether they will inhibit the functioning of the legislature >
  
  Hahaha. These clowns have made my week. This is fun to watch. >
  
  Time for 5 moderate GOPers in Biden districts to join Dems to form a functioning government. >
  
  I’m surprised the newly elected Republicans out of New York aren’t being swayed to side with the Dems on this. >
  
  Well one of em is such a huge liar I don't think Dems would entertain trying to sway. >
  
  Shit, I forgot about Santos. >
  
  
  Shit, I forgot about Santos.
  
  That's the Reverend Doctor Santos, General of the Hudson to you! >
  
  You forgot Admiral, King and Pope >
  
  Emperor of the North Pole. >
  
  Voice of the North Wind, Necromancer to the court of Gea-Xle. >
  
  First of his name, breaker of chains >
  
  I came up with a list of possible and equally viable Speaker alternatives for the Republicans to vote for:
  The preserved head of Richard Nixon in a jar
  Kevin Sorbo's PR manager
  Bill, my coworker
  The MyPillow guys crack dealer
  The skeleton of Ronald Reagan 
  A discarded McDonalds sack soaked in dumpster juice
  Triumph the Insult Comic Dog >
  
  
  The preserved head of Richard Nixon in a jar
  
  Well he just seems overqualified. Richard Nixon was quite effective in both houses of Congress, and considerably more ethical than the average 2022 GOP Candidate.
  I assume the remaining few percentage points of his biomass still contain collectively more brain cells then most of the GOP Caucus. Probably would be too liberal for them though. >
  
  Is this with or without Agnew’s robo-body?
  I’m only behind this if it is with.