Posted on 10/11/2023 3:10:16 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
It’s all a system of conniving and positioning for a cushy committee assignment, indulgences from the lobbyist control apparatus, office locations and Machiavellian influence for the best junkets and largest leadership PAC deposits. That’s the truth, the non-pretending truth about the system at work behind the GOPe blind vote. It has nothing to do with principle centered leadership, and everything to do with self-indulgences and person affluence.
Steve Scalise is worse than Kevin McCarthy when it comes to supporting Democrats, way worse. Representative Steve Scalise (U-DC) will use sell your house via civil forfeiture and send that money to Zelenskyy [while deducting his indulgence fees of course].
WASHINGTON – No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise won the GOP nomination for speaker, paving the way for a floor vote to make the election official.
Republicans held a secret closed-door ballot Wednesday morning after days of drama and infighting. Scalise, who is battling blood cancer, beat out House Judiciary Chairman and Trump ally Jim Jordan in a 113-99 vote.
But it is still a steep path ahead for Scalise to make the promotion official – he must get at least 217 votes on the House floor. It is not clear when a vote will be scheduled, but it could occur as soon as this afternoon. (read more)
Via Politico – […] Some Scalise allies are encouraging the Louisiana Republican to move to a floor vote quickly anyway, hoping to establish momentum after Wednesday’s internal vote. The rising national focus on national security matters such as the Israeli terrorist attack, these allies argue, will help convince GOP lawmakers to coalesce behind Scalise as the winner.
“I believe we’ll have a Speaker Scalise in office by dinnertime tonight,” said Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), an early Scalise backer. “I’m confident we’ll all be on the same page when we get to the floor.” (source)
A pox on all their Houses.
The 4th Stooge ?
I really hate this “Next in line” seniority selection method the GOP always uses.
This is what got us the term “going postal” from the post office. Anyone with the highest number of days was selected to manage other people, rather than competency and ability to lead.
With the same disastrous results.
Tolja Jordan didn’t have a chance. Because “Republicans”.
Disappointed with this. Did they keep the same playbook in place to they can oust this RINO when he screws up?
This anonymous jerk who styles himself Sundance exemplifies the rule or ruin philosophy that is destroying the Republican party. Scalise is a good man, and so are McCarthy and Jordan. Compared to the Rats they are all conservative saints.
Scalise is practically dead, and he spends his remaining days on earth trying to get one more step up the greasy poll ?
Any country should fear politicians that value their pathetic careers more than life itself.
Get off your asses finally Quit crying about everything daily and get in the fight. Conservative INC is the most politically incompetent collection of hysteric crybabies in US History
He is to left of Ryan. Faggot gets shot and does nothing about it.
I care less about who and more about what they do.
How about releasing the Jan 6th footage?
How about cleaning up voting rolls?
How about limiting spending just a little bit?
etc
It is union mentality. When our unionized shop had layoffs, the younger workers were laid off first even if best workers.
” Scalise is a good man, and so are McCarthy and Jordan. “
This is the BoomerCon Team Red /Team Blue BULLSH!T that is how everything has gotten so screwed up.
No matter how bad they betray, they are Team Red so they get a pass because Team Blue is supposedly worse.
It is the same in every Western country where the equivalents of Scalise, Jordan and McCarthy betray and betray and betray and betray !
MOTS!
A piece of crap replaces a piece of crap...
The GOP circle-jerk has been protected...
Nothing will change and the communists are assured of retaking the House in the 2024 swindle...
Scalise took a bullet for his politics, quite literally. There aren’t a lot of Congressmen who have been shot (and almost died), just for being Republicans.
And he is in almost all respects a very conservative Republican.
It’s easy to fall into a paranoid subculture of splinter factions. It is easy to find personal comfort in a worldview where one is always “right” about every little thing. But that’s ultimately a futile worldview. The “best” (whatever that is, YMMV) really is the enemy of “good enough”. It is unrealistic.
Prediction: The decisions coming from the SOTH will be even more favorable to Democrats, than they were under McCarthy, and it will be on purpose just to rub our faces in it.
This is the most important election in history! We have to vote for Republicans across the board to save America! (Part 28)
Coming soon…
Every democratic government ever, including every government in US history (let’s say every partisan majority in Congress) has been a coalition of factions which did not unanimously agree on every jot and tittle.
That’s just how it is. People are people. You cannot demand that all of humanity agree with you on everything.
Moreover, the real problem with the current US has very little to do with its overt politics. The root of everything is the caste/class social problem best described by Angelo Codevilla, drawing from Gramsci’s concept of hegemony.
I am more optimistic.
“...every partisan majority in Congress) has been a coalition of factions which did not unanimously agree on every jot and tittle.”
This is wrong ! The UniParty all agree on:
Open borders, “free trade”, NeoCon wars, TBTF financial bailouts, CO2 hysteria, entitlement cuts, hedge fund economics, “carried interest”...
The rest is just fake issue positioning to keep the team Red / Team Blue act going.
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