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McCarthy loses 12th speaker vote despite growing support
UPI ^ | January 6, 2023 | By Simon Druker & Matt Bernardini

Posted on 01/06/2023 11:01:16 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: TiGuy22

Agreed, when is one of the holdouts going to stand up and say elect me?

They are not going to standup because that would mean the lot is willing to do more than grandstanding for personal, assignments, and concessions designed to give them more personal power.

And that’s why they are ‘genius clowns’ costing the nation & the GOP future elections.


121 posted on 01/06/2023 12:18:57 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: HamiltonJay
Thanks.

'behaved arrogantly as if it was just his to have.'

This is what I don't like about him. I've never known much about him but he strikes me as smug and smarmy and capable of being really MEAN.
122 posted on 01/06/2023 12:18:59 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: entropy12

“May be I misconstrued your post #41.”

Check the post I was responding to about voting for same-sex marriage.

McCarthy opposed the legislation.


123 posted on 01/06/2023 12:19:19 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“What’s embarrassing is giving commie Dems more fodder…on top of their gesticulation over Jan 6.”

People have short memories. If Republicans decide to rule like Republicans and stamp out all the corruption (FBI/CIA/Democrats/Bidens, etc...) and grift this will be a distant memory in no time.


124 posted on 01/06/2023 12:20:57 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: BushCountry

Are they having another adjournment vote?


125 posted on 01/06/2023 12:24:23 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: JonPreston

hahaha


126 posted on 01/06/2023 12:27:16 PM PST by KobraKai
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To: ontap

Correct because real conservatives are a small minority of American voters.


127 posted on 01/06/2023 12:30:45 PM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

WTF do you have against Ely NV?

Move them onto an old aircraft carrier and use it for target practice after they are all on it. Sink it in the middle of the ocean.


128 posted on 01/06/2023 12:33:16 PM PST by crz
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To: laconic
What is the end game here?

VERY good question! I would've expected a Dark Horse to emerge by now. There are a number of people whom I think would make a better Speaker than McCarthy, but for various reasons (Coercion?) they have declined.

The media and the left would go into apoplexy if my choice: Donald J. Trump were to show interest and his candidacy gain steam

129 posted on 01/06/2023 12:33:33 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-declares-peace-for-our-time-75-years-ago


130 posted on 01/06/2023 12:34:32 PM PST by rolling_stone (cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war )
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To: HamiltonJay

“With a caucus that only holds a 4 seat majority you literally need to get the votes of 98% of the people voting to vote for you...”

And why is there only a 4 seat majority? Because Republicans let massive cheating take place and this clown McCarthy could care less.


131 posted on 01/06/2023 12:38:43 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Well, the nominee of your choice was nominated. It did not go well.


132 posted on 01/06/2023 12:39:37 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: gloryblaze
It did not go well because Republicans are gutless cowards.


133 posted on 01/06/2023 12:42:08 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: BushCountry
It did not go well because Republicans are gutless cowards.

Wow! So that's it. That's pretty profound; I'll have to think about it for a while.

134 posted on 01/06/2023 12:53:13 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Spktyr

I’m not sure but IIRC House rules prevent someone from nominating themselves.

Well one of the gang of now 8 can stand up and say “elect me”, and have one of the other seven nominate them.


135 posted on 01/06/2023 1:02:38 PM PST by TiGuy22
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To: Red Badger
You can bet they're being threaten by their banks to call loans.
IRS letters, Building and safety and so on.
136 posted on 01/06/2023 1:11:18 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: gloryblaze

“Wow! So that’s it. That’s pretty profound; I’ll have to think about it for a while.”

Good, because you haven’t. Not really. Because McCarthy / Republican Establishment could care less about the suppression and corruption of the DOJ/FBI, COVID Origins, COVID Vaccines, Jan 6th prisoners’, domestic terrorist (parents), Coup Attempts, and dozens of other topics the Government, Big Tech, McCarthy and the Lapdog media goes along with.

Other things McCarthy will do absolutely nothing about, border crossings, sex trafficking, drug deaths, etc.. He wants cheap labor.

Get a speaker with an once of courage and save our country.


137 posted on 01/06/2023 1:15:24 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: BushCountry

Sure. McCarthy doesn’t give one hoot in heck about any of that. But the ONE you want, the one who knew McCarthy was the minority leader and that the Republicans would likely become the majority for over a year, and McCarthy was the presumptive Majority leader, and the November election of two months ago when McCarthy declared his candidacy, the one who remained in the shadows, he would take care of it all when he miraculously took the reigns.

And he’d be so strong that he’s get everything through the Democratic Senate, too, and the Democratic Biden presidency for signing, and the (essentially) Democratic DOJ, and the MSM.

Name him or her.


138 posted on 01/06/2023 1:35:04 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: TiGuy22

That’s not how that works. One of the others has to nominate them *first* - you can’t just stand up and demand that others nominate you.


139 posted on 01/06/2023 1:46:26 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: crz

Ely is a speed trap and they deserve some punishment.


140 posted on 01/06/2023 1:50:45 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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