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Tom Emmer drops out of speaker’s race, hours after being nominated
PhillyTrib ^ | 10/24/23 | staff

Posted on 10/24/2023 1:44:36 PM PDT by CFW

GOP Rep. Tom Emmer has dropped out of speaker race – a move that comes just hours after he won his party’s nomination, the latest sign that Republicans are no closer to electing a new speaker.

Earlier in the day, Emmer’s bid to be speaker appeared on the verge of collapse amid opposition from the right flank of his conference and fresh attacks waged by former President Donald Trump – just hours after the Minnesota Republican was picked as the party’s nominee.

Several Republicans who oppose Emmer say they will not move off their opposition and are calling for a new candidate. Emmer can only afford to lose four Republicans, and 26 voted against him behind closed doors.

Emmer voted to certify the 2020 election, voted to keep the government open for 47 days, voted for the bipartisan law to avoid a debt default and voted to codify same-sex marriage – all issues that members of the hard-right have cited as issues.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cantgovern; clowns; clownshow; emmer; freedomcaucus; gaetzorama; gopclowns; gope; retreat
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To: Sacajaweau

Nope. we found out a lot with him no longer being Speaker.


81 posted on 10/24/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: Vermont Lt
Doing nothing is prefereable to what was happening before.

Unfortunately, we need to do real things to save the Republic.

None of the RINOs will do what needs to be done, probably the most important and effectual of which would be to put a real budget process back in place.

We have not had one since Obama was voted in. This gives the bureaucracy the ability to ignore Congress.

82 posted on 10/24/2023 3:35:21 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: CFW

Emmer quickly bit the dust.


83 posted on 10/24/2023 4:15:14 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Dead Corpse

Emmers Conservative Rating was 69%.


84 posted on 10/24/2023 4:17:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: rfp1234

I am so stealing that¡!!!!......


85 posted on 10/24/2023 4:30:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: CFW

No transparency, no accountability to the People.


86 posted on 10/24/2023 4:39:46 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Dead Corpse

I agree.


87 posted on 10/24/2023 6:04:38 PM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah. Hopefully someone can merchandise that.


88 posted on 10/24/2023 8:45:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: grey_whiskers

He also gave us a binary trigger and bump stock ban. Remember, “I’m ok with taking the guns first”?

He talks a big game, and was probably our best President since Reagan...

But now imagine what would happen if he actually READ the Constitution and tried to follow it... Explicitily.


89 posted on 10/25/2023 6:29:05 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: tennmountainman

Donald Trumps Conservative rating is 55%... Doesn’t really make your point without a source...

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/interest-group/2412/rating/8686


90 posted on 10/25/2023 6:34:01 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse
What part of Trump's first administration was not conservative?

Was it:

  1. Low inflation?
  2. Low unemployment, especially for blue collar work?
  3. Rising real wages?
  4. Standing up to China and tariffs?
  5. Building a wall and having the most secure border since the 1960s?
  6. Cheap gas, super high oil production?
  7. Selecting 3 SCOTUS judges that fundamentally changed the court?

That is an incomplete list but please tell us what is not conservative about any of those things?

91 posted on 10/25/2023 6:34:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Dead Corpse
chgogal posted:

Which POTUS was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished:

  1. Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
  2. Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
  3. Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything down and we were in the midst of a V-shape recovery until January 22, 2021;
  4. Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
  5. US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
  6. No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
  7. China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
  8. US companies were bringing home the jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
  9. Peace in the Middle East aka Abraham Accords; US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
  10. Got three non-left “I don't know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.

Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by Obama's Weaponized Agencies?

92 posted on 10/25/2023 6:34:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Night Hides Not

The Reps are either afraid of the weaponized DoJ and FBI or they just want to be the minority party and get access to all that laundered money coming from Ukraine.


93 posted on 10/25/2023 6:49:11 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: central_va

Remind me how strong on private property Rights and the 2A he was...

Take your time... I’ll wait.


94 posted on 10/25/2023 6:52:06 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: central_va

Trump is a good businessmen. I’ve always said that.

Trying to gloss over his New York warts isn’t going to make those warts go away...


95 posted on 10/25/2023 6:53:10 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Trump had to work in the “system” of NYC to make it. Now he is paying back in spades as a solid PATRIOT America forst leader. I have no problem. I guess you do.


96 posted on 10/25/2023 6:54:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Stop ASSuming so much. Trump’s our leading candidate... but he’s still weak on a number of Constitutional issues.

Doesn’t matter how good he looks by “comparison”. A turd with fewer chunks of corn in it is still a turd. A lesser evil is still an increase in evil. Etc...

EVERY single one of our Candidates should be measured against their support of our Constitutionally LIMITED Republic. Especially those who insist on a certain amount of ego stroking and hero worship.


97 posted on 10/25/2023 7:00:21 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Wow, you don’t get it.


98 posted on 10/25/2023 7:01:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Dead Corpse

No one is hero worshipping Trump. In fact most of us are not to keen on anything but Trump’s results, results he has delivered. So go away please.....


99 posted on 10/25/2023 7:03:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Keep being an ass. Makes you easier to ignore.


100 posted on 10/25/2023 7:24:45 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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