Posted on 10/13/2023 8:27:22 AM PDT by hcmama
Lawmakers in both parties are expressing growing openness, both in public and in private, to a bipartisan deal to elect a House speaker as Republicans are continually thwarted in their efforts to do it alone.
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What we're hearing: A bipartisan group of roughly ten House lawmakers is quietly holding "very" serious discussions, a moderate Republican involved in the discussions told Axios on the condition of anonymity.
"The question is who gets you to the largest minority of the majority," the GOP lawmaker said. "Is it Don Bacon, who gets 20 [GOP] votes and 200 Democrats? Is it French Hill who gets 100 votes from Republicans? And the fewer Republicans, the more dangerous this is – not just politically, but structurally."
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"We're open to anything that's reasonable," said Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), a member of the moderate Republican Governance Group. "Bipartisanship is not a sin." Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a perennial bipartisan
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It is likely we end up with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats running a pseudo Republican for Speaker of the House instead of Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy was to a certain degree trying to do the right thing under very difficult circumstances while keeping a razor thin majority satisfied.
May end up regretting his ouster. Worse, if McCarthy is reinstated (which is also likely) America First Republicans will have lost all leverage.
They are going to agree to letting a “Moderate” democrat be speaker. I hope Mr. Gaetz is proud of himself. We finally win back the House and then give it back to the democrats. And don’t give me the old ‘but McCarthy was a Rino’ crap he was a republican and set the agenda, decided what bills are moved forward and handled committee appointments. Now the democrats will set the agenda.
Agree...Musical chairs is a children’s game.
60 mph or 30 mph off a cliff.
MCCARTHY CR SCORE 54%
In addition, if Bacon cuts the deal with Democrats (something McCarthy refused to do to save his speakership), he is going to be voting with Democrats a lot more than he already does.
I don't think that's the outcome everyone cheering on Matt Gaetz was hoping for
Any Republican teaming with Democrats to elect Speaker must lost his or her job.
I was called every name in the book for suggesting that very thing.
(Well, that and I said Gaetz was a sociopath)
What about the eight Republicans who voted with every Democrat to overthrow a republican speaker?
They are all Deep State.
There’s no difference between the RINOs and the Democrats, so if they’re set on a RINO, let the Democrats have the Speakership. Bunch of friggin’ surrender monkey RINOs.
Different from McCarthy how?
This is the “bipartisanship” they are talking about.
It was an act of incorrigible stupidity--and that's being generous to Gaetz.
This is his legacy
The Republicans could easily do it. They just can’t have a RINO.
If the RINOs and Democrats want to OPENLY get in bed together....let them. It will make it that much easier to primary a bunch of the RINOs as the Assistant Democrats they truly are in 2024.
They want a wuss...Not a fighter........
Gaetz is swine with no real interest in Republicans being able to govern. He gleefully collaborated with Democrats to put us in this situation. He likely handed the Democrats the House & maintained control of the Senate in 2024. Polling shows if elections were held today it would be Trump with a Democrat congress. Which means agenda 47 goes nowhere.
This.
Matt is just getting started- just wait until Jordan is elected Speaker. They won’t wait out the Storm- they bring the Storm. They are two of the only men in congress with the Gonads and the resumes to bring down the global Pedo ring.
A few of us saw this reality and how it would play out.
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