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House Votes on Ousting McCarthy as Speaker: Watch Live

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure the Dems got huge concessions in exchange for this. Very strategic and good brains over there. No way they'd just freely help boot the guy that caved so that someone even farther right would be in power. Surely not. No way. Not this time.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Very strategic and good brains over there.

Hakeem Jeffries is 53 that means epic cases of the dems grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory are going to happen in the house for decades. And he'll be highly effective at punching left if not kneecapping the left.

[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Surely the Democratic party isn't still running the same play they did in 2016 and hoping to boost their numbers by pushing the Republicans further right, right