Completely predictable.

Aay know! Let's have a spellin' contest!

Not that mine would fit into a 12-pack.

Gaetz has driven the bus as far as it will go. Now on to the next Speaker. This should take about .....45 days? Until the money runs out?

From EmptyTraitor Greene ?



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wasn't she just supporting Matt?

No



No more sugar daddy Kev


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That dipshit doesn't have a clue

And nobody knows where they've been...

(such as he is)

I hope they keep him until the next election. That runt and his bow-tie are a walking punch line.

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And believe me I know.

Hard to decide which is worse.

A full-blown shit-eating grin to be precise.

Zippa De Doo Dah, Zippa De Yay!

Before he was elected.

Better bring back those moving boxes, Kev.

Live by the stupid, die by the stupid.

Boehner is making money in his new venture.

GQP doesn't have a lot of other options that would get a majority of votes.

She pretends to be both a moderate/sensible Republican and a complete fringe lunatic at the same time.

I am actually grateful for the shut down (delayed 45 days)

And you can bet that the Democrats have ulterior motives for voting along with Matt Gaetz.

House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, anyone? Well, I can dream can't I?

Something is brewing...

For RWs, everything is done by their design.

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Things won't be any different next week or next month.

He'd actually have to work for the first time in his life. It would certainly interfere with his golf game, and he wouldn't take that.

He thinks he's the "president for life" so he won't settle for anything less than that.

Though there's probably a loophole somewhere in there. Any Poli Sci/Con Law majors out there?

He gave everything up to become Speaker, and it all came back to bite him in the ass.

Couldn't happen to more deserving asshat. 👏

because it was announced a few days ago that McCarthy would likely expel Gaetz if a pending ethics probe showed significant violations, and of course any honest report would.

I just wonder which horror will be visited upon this country next.

And this shit sticks?

Welcome to Republican Amerikka.

The Klown Kaucus will want one of their own, someone who refuses to work with Democrats on a single thing.

And Democrats need to make them own every inch of what they block and screw up. Every inch.

for rwnj

Looks like traitor and kev hit the skids neck and neck. Yay!

hitler's gaining power in Germany.


At any time, did hitler's machine fall to pieces as he attacked the German Republic in the 1930s? Are the U.S. traitors here in new territory?

Is this going to hamper traitor's desire to hand the U.S. over to putin?

BYE FELICIA!

will republicans kill him?

It puts Gaetz in quite a pickle.

Then again, the radicalized GOP/Magat base - to a person - views McCarthy as a "spineless sellout."

Which, of course, he is - just not the way they see it.

I smell a sinister trap.

We really should look on the bright side of things.

As you know - they're doing their damnedest to create 1876 plutocracy, child labor and women's rights conditions.

At least ole Kev wasn't kicking Democrats straight in the balls on live TV. McHenry seems like he's ready to take flamethrower to everything.

The more tantrums that little thing throws (none of which will lead to anything), the better for Democrats.

Maybe Matty G will pull the plug on McHenry too.

Egads, what a stench from that side of the aisle...

Why would the Democrats vote in align with Gaetz? He's worse.

Or is he out forever?

Fucking Republicans always say government doesn’t work, then they get elected and make sure of it.

shit

Anyway ...

And JFC, how did they let Gaetz get his way??? He is as worthless as possible,

that Republicans own this mess and that Democrats wouldn’t save him. Apparently he’s burned his bridges with the Democrats over the past ten months. I’m thinking that Jeffries thought this through and probably consulted Pelosi over this whole issue.

Did the Dems do this.

"Nearly all Democrats voted with Gaetz and his allies to do so."

Why give them the legitimacy and power previously unobtainable this does...

I know it sounds counter intuitive but there is wisdom when given a choice to stay with the POS Speaker you know instead of jumping off the cliff w/ "gaetz and his allies".

Especially after one of those allies had mentioned this very act in discussion on how to get DT back into a position to act with impact on the system that stole his election from him. That the Speaker of the House does not need to be in government to be Speaker. I would imagine this is not a good a confidence builder in our allies around the globe as well.

I think the Dems have made an ill advised decision here. I hope I am wrong but I do not see a return that warrants this investment.

To me it's an ominous sign that he got ousted for funding the government. It also seems likely that we'll end up with someone even worse than McCarthy.

The reporting is that McCarthy just expected to be bailed out by Dems without cutting a deal, though, while at the same time trying to blame them for a near shutdown miss. Given that, I think it's understandable that they voted to oust. The fact is he's a dirtbag with very few selling points. I'm flabbergasted that he didn't even try to cut a deal.

Is it like at the beginning where everything else has to go on hold till that's resolved?

Ie, does it pause the ethics thing and Gaetz potential expulsion?

Also.. I guess that answers whether there was a deal on Ukraine aid and such.

211 democrats, 218 votes needed to elect a speaker. I wonder if there's a powersharing agreement that would bring 10-20 Republicans on board for a bipartisan house majority

Good riddance.

Link - https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023519

I would have thought voting "present" would be the way they voted, but so few did.

Oh the irony.