12 bags with thirty pieces of silver in each
Posted on 01/06/2023 11:01:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., lost yet another speaker of the House vote on Friday, despite broadening his base of support.
McCarthy received 214 votes, short of the amount needed to be elected. He can only afford to lose four votes if every member casts a vote for a nominee.
While a speaker still hasn't been elected, McCarthy did make some progress as 12 Republicans who opposed McCarthy earlier, voted for him on the 12th ballot.
The process to elect a new speaker has entered its fourth day, making it the longest such process in 164 years.
RELATED House adjourns with no speaker elected; McCarthy loses 11th vote McCarthy was nominated for a 12th time after he has fallen short in each round of balloting in his quest to be elected House speaker. Democrats again nominated Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who has received the votes of all 212 of the party's members in each vote.
A coalition of detractors seeking to prevent McCarthy from becoming speaker has nominated various other lawmakers over the course of the four days of voting. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz nominated Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Friday while Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., again nominated Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern.
Jeffries received 211 votes during the first ballot Friday, while Hern received three and Jordan received four.
RELATED U.S. House adjourns, delays seventh House speaker vote Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, and David Trone, D-Md., didn't vote.
House Republicans held a conference call starting at 10:15 a.m. EST Friday to discuss strategy ahead of the voting session which is scheduled to begin at noon.
McCarthy, who was first elected to Congress in 2006, insisted Thursday evening that he was making progress on a deal to win back some of his detractors and repeated that message Friday.
RELATED House adjourns after Kevin McCarthy fails in first three ballots for House speaker "We're going to make progress, we're gonna shock you!" McCarthy told reporters Friday morning as he arrived at the U.S. Capitol.
"We're going to get it done."
Coming into Friday representatives had spent 17 hours and 55 minutes in the voting process, preventing the 118th Congress from conducting any business, including the swearing in of new members.
McCarthy and his supporters continue attempts to negotiate a deal with their party's hardliners who have thus far refused to support McCarthy through 11 rounds of balloting.
"If Kevin McCarthy doesn't bow out, then he will have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straightjacket constructed by these rules that we're working on now," Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told Fox News in an interview Thursday evening.
"We have zero trust in Kevin McCarthy."
Gaetz, the leader of the coalition against McCarthy, also delivered a four-minute speech during Thursday's voting session where he nominated former president Donald Trump for the speaker role.
So far, 20 GOP members have continually voted against the 57-year-old. With 435 members in the House of Representatives, McCarthy can only afford to have four of his colleagues withhold their support.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., a McCarthy ally said progress is indeed being made.
"The main things we're talking about are a conservative agenda around spending and the nature of our Republican majority. That's really the crux of the conversation. And that's really the contours of it," he told CNN Friday morning.
"What I've seen over the last 36 hours is immense amount of effort to take the emotion out of this and get into the substance of the challenges."
Earlier in the week, McCarthy's failure to win marked the first time since 1923 that a speaker was not elected during the first round of balloting.
12 bags with thirty pieces of silver in each
Another flip...
Only Gope “arguments” are “it’s chaos”, “it’s embarrassing”, neither of which are true and even if true are not good arguments.
The other is “fodder for democrats” which is naïve and specious as well as a bad argument.
Democrats and Ministry of Truth media make up “fodder” if there’s no actual “fodder” and use anything as “fodder”. Acting to avoid criticism from people who hate you and want to destroy you is ludicrous.
Yes, but it’s curious...
It is on “paper”... as soon as he is sworn in the “Gang” of 20 will be out of power for their terms...
No others nominated to this point.
Republicans are allowed to win some elections to give the appearance of a two party system.
It’s always been placeholders as no MAGA supporters have the spine to directly oppose McCarthy..
A pretty good outcome. I never thought we would get a conservative speaker once Jim Jordan dropped out. Concessions in writing is a win.
If there was any leadership in the GOP at all they’d have had all this sorted before the first vote. All the backroom stuff to get a candidate to get the votes. The fact that they’re basically at “well what if he promises to never wear a bowtie?” supposed deal making should embarrass all of them.
they still get to vote and without them no legislation gets passed.
What do you think will come of any of that?
In my lifetime I haven’t seen any House or Senate hearings
amount to a hill of beans.
The House on its own can’t introduce legislation that will
get past the Senate anyway.
If McCarthy is installed, just how reasoned will the
committee members be? He’ll allow the Left to fill them
with die-hard agitators. If the Right proved it was
dark at midnight, the Left would claim it wasn’t with
expert testimony.
the leadership in the GOP IS McCarthy and his ilk. They told the gang of 20 to FO. They’ve been negotiating since the summer apparently and McCarthy stonewalled them basically daring them to vote no.
Then that ain’t leadership. Which is my point.
May be I misconstrued your post #41.
I suppose McCarthy could turn his back on the entire written agreement but I doubt he will, given the narrowness of his margin and the toughness of this battle. I have to put some trust in Chip Roy, Jim Jordan and MT Greene - I would certainly rather do so than trust in Ro Khanna and his “unity” candidate for Speaker who will undoubtedly be the result if this continues to drag on with the few holdouts offering no real alternative candidate.
So he peeled off some opponents. No spines there.
With 5/6 patriots remaining, combined with ‘Rats withdrawing from quorum, I expect McC gets it now on the 13th
If McCarthy finally gets in it is so tarnished the Left will spend years of family fun ridiculing the GOP for it.
McCarthy: “Whew. I made it as Speaker.”
GOP House member: “We were with you all the way, pal.”
Looks like it’s going to land at 6 this round...
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