[FreeReign]

Hey Rep. Gaetz, it's not that I'm necessarily mad at you for getting McCarthy booted. I'm mad at you for being so colossally incompetent that you didn't have a suitable replacement locked down before removing McCarthy.

Nonsense.

You can’t whip 218 votes AGAINST a sitting speaker while that speaker is in power. It's an impossible thing to do. The plan was to vacate McCarthy, put the conference in the the standard position to vote for a speaker and then whip up the vote and try to win behind some other suitable candidate who doesn't want to spend our country into oblivion.

Gaetz did all he that should and could.

[piytar]

You can’t whip 218 votes AGAINST a sitting speaker while that speaker is in power.

Guess I did not consider that. Yup, you're correct.

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In other words, the plan was no plan at all.