Posted on 01/05/2023 11:41:54 AM PST by Navy Patriot
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is poised to fall short of the support needed to become speaker on the eighth ballot, with a group of 20 conservatives continuing to push back on the California Republican on the third day of votes on the floor.
His detractors have said they will continue to vote against him unless he makes additional concessions for rules changes.
Florida Rep. Brian Mast (R) nominated McCarthy, while former House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) nominated Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on the floor. Although the 20 holdouts had lined up behind Donalds on multiple rounds, Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Josh Brecheen (R-OK) voted for Kevin Hern, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Gaetz voted for former President Donald Trump, as he had on the seventh ballot.
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Maybe Frank Luntz told him not to come home until he's Speaker....
I would prefer a House where Representatives REPRESENT the interests of their American Voters in their District, and The House governs as lightly as possible in keeping with their Constitutional Directives.
Dog and pony show. His “dissenters” are going to acquiesce after some more mild concessions soon, and everyone knows it.
Good
The GOPe "strategy" of continuing to throw a Speaker nominee at the House who they knew from the get-go doesn't have the votes to win is playing out the only way it could.
McLeadership McFail.
If CONgress ain’t workin’, I feel much more secure. JS
And he cheated on his wife by having an affair with Congresswoman Renee Elmers, a Trump supporter, and destroyed her career.
Agree, and it's not working.
If "everyone knows it," the establishment types wouldn't be having a collective cow and melting down on national TV.
Why is the Republicrat Uniparty pushing globalist WEF crony McCarthy for Speaker, when it should be obvious to anyone with a triple digit IQ, he is not going to get elected?
That’s it.
McCarthy simply does not have a record to indicate he is trust worthy.
Agree.
Apparently Paladin2 does also.
Appears so.
So democracy is now
Chaos ?
Spit.
Wonder what the narrative focus word/term from the inteligency agency will put in tomorrow’s cubicle memo.
Media: Elections where voting machines malfunction and there is no chain of custody on the ballots counted - Normal and healthy.
Also Media: A group is voting in orderly repeated rounds until a candidate wins a majority as the process specifies and has been done many times in the past - CHAOS!!!
Agree.
He had months to make a deal. Instead he moved into the speakers office and waited out the time to be anointed.
I’ve been watching the vote on C-Span and the talking head just reported that a reporter, sorry, I didn’t catch the name, asked Kev when the voting process would be over. He replied, “When I win.”
So did Scott Norwood and Jean Van De Velde, an Bill Buckner
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