McCarthy is an awful choice, I think he’s content to stay in the minority forever, ala Bob Michel in the 80s. But I wasn’t sold on Jim Jordan either. The 159-49 vote proves we needed a better “conservative alternative”. I’m surprised there wasn’t more interest in a “Scalise for GOP leader” movement. You’d think there would have been a ground swell of support after his comeback from a near assassination attempt.
Liz Cheney sucks too, I noticed her fan club on FR who argued she’d be a “Fighter” for conservative causes has disappeared. She’s basically gotten every political post in her career because of her last name. Overall the whole GOP “leadership” team is lousy and I can’t see these guys ever running government.
And we still need to start a “bipartisan” campaign to get Alexandria Osacio-Cortez as Speaker. Can you imagine the entertainment value alone if C-SPAN had live coverage of all her activities?
How long has Liz been a congresswoman? I had no idea she was even there.
Funny, my wife and I were just discussing the idea of Occasional Cortex for Speaker this morning.
Nothing would get done. “The job of the speaker is to, like, you know, speak.” it would be entertaining as can be, and it would definitely kill the Dems’ chances of retaining teh House.
Let’s get it going.
I think he lost.
I got another post later on saying that.
confused :(
Hey man, have some common decency! ;-p Don't be talking about this Obamanation of a rat "majority" existing beyond the upcoming Congress. That's quite a harsh insult to old Mikey anyway that I don't think he's done anything to earn.
McCarthy is certainly an establishment Republican, but he was a loyalist to nominee Trump during that "Billy Bush" nonsense" and was supportive of him before, which is presumably why Trump endorsed his mistress, Reene Elmers. The White House seems to have blessed his ascension. So everyone (not you Bill but other people on this thread) who is decrying this as unTrumpian, wake up. One tweet in favor of Jordan or someone else could have made a giant difference.
I like Jim Jordan, who unfortunately was hurt by that horsepoop trying to link him to a homosexual predator (note the guy went after young adults yet no one used the word gay or homosexual to describe him) who must have worked for the sissyest wrestling program ever cause his "victims" should have caved his face in. Jordan was probably doomed after that (which was I'm sure, the point). But I'm not sold he was the better choice anyway, in any case this wasn't much a race, McCarthy was in like Flynn.
Scalise seemed reluctant to run against McCarthy, his friend. Maybe it would have been different if we'd won. Either he's keeping his powder dry or he's a coward, can't know, can't say. If he had been Speaker-designate a few weeks ago maybe that could have helped during that "bombing" and "Nazi shooter" nonsense. Really, we should have run ads showing his damn scars.
Looking on the bright side, McCarthy is a good fundraiser (something Jordan may have struggled with given the circumstances) which is extremely necessary for taking back control.
All in all a lot of people are this thread are being hysterical and ridiculous and need to chill. To take back the House, primarily, we need the President to be winning reelection. We won the House in spite of it being lead by Boehner and then Ryan, it's not really so critical that anyone needs to slit their wrists.
A lot of the nancy boy RINOs took a hike (or lost) so this conference is certainly gonna be more conservative than the last. And playing defense is....well it's sure as hell easier than "governing" so I don't think Leader McCarthy will give us much reason to curse his name these next 2 years.
Liz Cheney? Gak. Well I see no one ran against her. I hope she has more to offer than a famous last name, I hardly think she made much of a mark in her first term in Congress. Supposedly she be handling communications and they think her time as Faux News contributer will help with that. It may very well, presumably some of the many freepers who used to tout her election must have seen her on Faux and didn't just love cause she was Dick's daughter.