Watch them blame Democrats.
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Dems could easily determine the next speaker. They only need 5 GOP members to make a deal to elect their guy. Or if that doesn't work someone like Cheney. Or Scalise as a last resort. Definitely they need to stop Gym Jordan from getting it. He is a pedo neofascist.
Scalise compared himself to David duke once, I'm thinking he might not be a good choice either.
just flip that around. Any five GOP members could pick the next speaker if they were willing to make a deal with the Dems.
The GOP is a crab bucket and I can't wait until they gorge themselves to death on each other.
damn i can't believe the thing they did without thinking of the consequences created consequences for them
Literally the job of a Congressperson is listening to other points of view and coming up with common ground to find workable solutions to complex problems.
On paper. The reality for the last 20 years is that it's for handing out tax breaks, bailouts and deregulation to the rich -- a job they were groomed for since their earliest days at their very expensive schools.
Now the job is apparently becoming nothing more than figuring out ways to abuse and exploit the rules in order to hold the entire body of government hostage until you get your way.
Look at the actual history and not the 'founding fathers' myth. Before WW2 created the Military-Industrial Complex we all know and love, people really thought that different ways of making money were mutually exclusive. The fight over minting silver backed money was a huge issue [Cross of Gold ring any bells]
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Well now, I'm just so surprised!
It's probably a futile question, but are there any republican representatives that could switch to the democrats?
I mean, some of them are probably pretty close to the most right leaning dems.
They've reached that Wiley Coyote stage where he's 20 feet off the cliff and realizing he shouldn't be there.
Cry more. You did this to yourselves, dipshits. I have precisely zero sympathy. I’m confident an overwhelming majority of the rest of the country feels exactly the same way.
Zero sympathy, sure.
But after the latest CR, and seeing this dumpster fire, I'm eyeing late November uneasily, as are, I'm sure, millions of federal employees.
Honestly, if the GOP continues to shit the bed so consistently and thoroughly, I see a nonzero chance that a handful of non-psycho GOP reps might just throw in with Hakeem Jeffries and give the house leadership to the Democrats. But that’s contingent on, like, 5 or so Republicans actually putting the country over their party, which is a coin toss at best.
Honestly when was the last time they put country before party?
At some point before the USSR imploded, if I had to guess