“I break with thee. I break with thee. I break with th...”
Good. Hit the bricks, Kevin!
McFailure!
McCarthy wears nice expensive suits and has a great haircut... what more could we ask for?
It’s a shame McCarthy has no honor: He is putting himself ahead of his party and the country.
An honorable man would call his caucus together and say, “It is obvious I do not have the support necessary to become Speaker. Therefore, I withdraw my name from consideration. Let us coalesce around a candidate that is acceptable to the body. That choice will have my full support.”
Unfortunately, he is not an honorable man.
It’s a shame McCarthy has no honor: He is putting himself ahead of his party and the country.
An honorable man would call his caucus together and say, “It is obvious I do not have the support necessary to become Speaker. Therefore, I withdraw my name from consideration. Let us coalesce around a candidate that is acceptable to the body. That choice will have my full support.”
Unfortunately, he is not an honorable man.
Does this not mean that if McCarthy were a Dem shill, that the Dem side of the House would have voted him in in a landslide?
I agree that McCarthy needed to be chastened, and that the process for removal of a non-performing SOTH needed to be strengthened, however now is the time to band our GOP together, and sail bravely into that forthcoming legislative storm.
Elect McCarthy, warts and all, just keep an eye on him.
Trump.
Californio...
If McCarthy can’t secure enough votes from his own party via negotiation, how does anyone think he would be a good negotiator with Democrats?
Three separate votes with a failure to clinch. Yet he refuses to step aside. This is what I despise about politicians from the right and the left.
Three strikes and you’re out.
I forgot this is Washington DC.
They all suck. What’s funny is that both parties have swindled most of John Q Public into thinking it matters or that they’re accountable. They aren’t and they don’t care. Both sides. Beware the Ides of March.
Time for KMc to exit the stage.
I can’t believe anyone would support a spineless loser like KMc.
Tg for real conservatives stood up to this RINO.
No, the house has adjourned after three votes for NOT Kevin McCarthy.
GOP — If you fail, adjourn.
3 strikes, you’re out!!!
Is McCarthy going let his ego cause him to tear the country apart?
This is how you get a REAL red wave. This might motivate the millions of folks who no longer vote the lesser of evils.
Watch them come back at 1:30 a.m. and do their dirty kevin deed
with only 3 present
while no one is looking.
Wouldn’t be the first time
Since the Republicans have the majority, do the Dems even have a say in who gets on the ballot?
If so, what's to stop them from fielding their own candidate and pulling in a few RINOs (they'd need less than 10 for a majority) to vote for that person?
We should have a Three Strikes You’re Out rule on this kind of vote.
1) I am not a McCarthy supporter
2) what needs to happen: pull every elected Rep into the room. No staff. Provide water. No food. Tell them no one leaves the room until the issue is resolved.
It should have never gone to the floor until the leaders knew the outcome of the vote. But they thought they would try to force it. False confidence is thick there. Dumb mistake.
I spent 20 year in a State Legislature. At this point, McCarthy is damaged goods and should step aside. I’m not sure who a compromise leader would be. Legislating is the art of negotiating, and getting the best deal you can get. At the end of the deal making, if nobody’s happy then you can figure a good deal of negotiating has gone on.
A successful victor will disperse committee assignments to both groups, in order to be assured both side will assist in moving the agenda forward. If one group is frozen out, they won’t owe leadership anything and we will get to witness a series of public cat fights the next 2 years.