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This news follows McCarthy's statement that he won't give Dems anything to save his Speakership.
K-Mc: I offer you nothing.
D's: Okay.
This right here is the most pertinent point I think:
"This is someone who reneged on the budget deal with the President..." [Schiff] added.
It doesn't matter if McCarthy promised the world to the Dems or not- the fact that he ignored the deal he agreed to with President Biden during the debt ceiling (hostage) negotiations means they have no reason to help him. Guess bipartisanship being anathema to Republicans is gonna bite Kevin now. Hope you all have enough popcorn.
He didn't ignore it, he couldn't get the FreeDumb Caucus to vote for it even though they should have. NO ONE can control those idiots, they need to be removed from office.
He didn't need them to vote for it. If he was willing to pass a bill that would be supported by the other Republicans and some Democrats, he could have kept his promise. He just didn't want to upset the FreeDumb Caucus and risk losing his position as Speaker. Ultimately, he acquiesced and brought the promises bill to a vote at the final hour, but it was too late. All he managed to do was enrage the extremists in his party enough for them to bring a vote to oust him, while also showing the Democrats that his promises are worthless. If he brought the good bill up earlier, the Democrats might have voted to keep him as Speaker, but his actions killed the only shred of a hope for that.
And we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
He seems to think that democrats should be kissing his feet for him not being Gaetz. Like sir, we know that you have too much discord among your ranks to hold your position. You can be a centrist trying to create a fair balance with the democrats or you can lose your position.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) “definitively” called for a vote against any procedural motion to delay the motion to vacate, Punchbowl News reports.
He also instructed Democrats to vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-NY).
The Washington Post says Democrats will not vote present and the caucus is unified.
See ya later Kev
Remember, Nancy Pelosi had an identically small House majority over the last two years and this stuff didn’t happen. This is not a “both sides” phenomenon; the two parties are not mirror images of each other.
Yep! Hakeem Jeffries can watch the GQP circle down the toilet a while, and only offer a lifeline when they're almost drowned.
They should just elect a Democratic speaker. Republicans only work as contrarians anyway, and they should realize that having Pelosi to hate on and not having to actually have consistent policy positions within their party because they aren't in leadership was a gift to their style of politics.
That would be an interesting ploy. Conservative media could blame the democrat speaker while the republicans continue to block everything. But would the democrats even bother running someone knowing that is how it would play out?
I was hoping the article would go into who is angling to replace McCarthy. Who would want the job?
Makes me wonder if Beavis would want it, since he's pushing for his removal, but who knows. It was a collosal pain to even get McCarthy in the seat, so I'm thinking it's going to be a long process
I'd watch Matt Gaetz get repeatedly embarrassed just like I watched it happen to Kevin McCarthy.
Gotta appreciate the little things.
Gym Jordan's Congressman Beavis, right?
Matt Gaetz is obviously Congressman Butthead.
With Jellyfish McCarthy about to lose his job, who else would want to be up there? He'd have to either kiss up to Beavis & Butthead as well as Marjorie Traitor Greene, or he'd have to make concessions with Democrats, either way, no matter who gets the seat, the next Speakership won't last long...
Oh you're right, I meant butthead. Lol
That’s the thing, there is no one in the Republican Party who wants to actually be speaker aside from McCarthy. Gaetz and his MAGA caucus just want McCarthy out. They have no plan beyond that point, and are perfectly happy to keep the House paralyzed.
Maybe trump would take it if it would throw gum in the works of all his lawsuits. The speaker doesn't actually have to be a representative.
They say the current whip, but no one would have the votes. This is basically a coalition government.
Absolutely wild that they wouldn't oust Gaetz for being a criminal who has broken all of their ethics rules as well but might actually oust him over this. Also I thought McCarthy was going to step down if even one person wanted him to - why would there be a vote held? The US desperately deserves more votes of no confidence type events.
It's way past time. Democrats need to behave like there's a civil war on and the GOP started it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Democrats on Tuesday said they do not plan to save Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when a vote on ousting him from the top spot hits the floor later in the day.
Emerging from a more than two-hour meeting in the Capitol, House Democrats said they will vote to oust McCarthy from the Speakership.
“We are following our leader and we are not saving Kevin McCarthy,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.
Asked if a decision was made as a caucus not to support McCarthy, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) responded, “yes.”
There will likely be a procedural vote to table the resolution to oust McCarthy or refer it to committee before the chamber weighs in on whether or not to boot the Speaker.
“But in the interest of answering inquiries to my office about whether or not I would support Kevin McCarthy: he’s not the leader I would choose – he doesn’t have the pulse of the people of Maine’s Second District.
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There's something about all this that stinks of when fascism in the past has used predictably partisan behavior to seize power.