If McCarthy is chosen, nothing will change.
A lot of effort was expended to get rid of Boehner - for what?
Who the frick picks the guy that runs next!!?? That’s what I want to know!
It’s those evil TEA Party ‘crazies’ i bet.
This shouldn’t be about trying to heal the party yet. Right now healing the party is code for “getting conservatives to go along.” This should be about throwing the rinos out on their collective you know what.
Giving boner the time he needs to foist his departing agenda on us.
VACATE NOW!
Roskam-IL is only at 61% on the Heritage scorecard. Rodgers-WA at 58%. McCarthy-CA at 63%.
Not good when moderates from blue states are running the show.
There are other positions besides Speaker to be determined. Importantly there is the makeup of the powerful Rules Committee. The whole ‘deal’ has to be agreed on.
There’s a lot of necessary wheeling and dealing and compromising involved.
The important point about the delay is that a plan for the hear future is to be determined. A plan the Speaker will be elected to implement.
Right now the GOP gets to choose the next Speaker of the House and the candidate they pick will be the one with the majority of the votes from that Conservative to Liberal Light group.
The winner will be someone in the middle of the GOP political spectrum. I want true conservative Speaker so I don't like that -but it is the reality. Is this new Speaker likely to be an improvement over John Cry Baby? It's doubtful but possible in a marginal sense. In any case it will be somebody with a 60% or so conservative voting record.
Just kill the Stupid Party now and start over.
Electing Trump seems our most direct route to this goal IMHO.
Just emailed my Rep this AM that no one in present leadership is acceptable as Speaker. They are all failures and should not be put in position to continue Boehner’s reign of fail.
Very Interesting. Thanks for posting.
They will get their conference and then right after that Kevin McCarthy will be elected Speaker. As Mark Levin so aptly said “McCarthy is Eric Cantor with 10 less IQ points”
Under regular order, the House would debate and vote on funding bills each year before sending them to the Senate. The return to standard procedure would allow conservatives to include many of their voters’ priorities in agency spending plans — and perhaps prevent GOP leaders from giving up conservatives’ demands during an end-of-year budget crash with the White House.
YES! It is only because of the use of omnibus continuing resolutions rather than individual appropriation bills that every conservative attempt to use the power of the purse results in the threat of closing down the entire government. With a return to regular order the appropriations for the Department of Defense would not be threatened by a fight over Planned Parenthood funding in the appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services.
It’s those “wacko birds”, still causing trouble...
This is a great move. Read the article. The House Freedom Caucus just stopped Mccarthy getting immediately elected. And they will vote as a block. Awesome news!!! It’s a big fat FU to the weepy cheeto.
So it seems the establishment was attempting to jam McCarthy through the system, and into the Speaker’s seat.
Apparently some saw the scam, and reacted appropriately. Hopefully we will see someone other than McCarthy as Speaker.
Roskam got screwed over by the other RINOs.
K-Street Errand boy Adam K-Zinger, Aaron Haram Schock and others sided with Scalise and McCarthy