Posted on 10/03/2023 1:56:35 PM PDT by spirited irish
Now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was stripped of his gavel on Tuesday afternoon via roll-call vote on Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) motion to vacate the chair, pursuant to rules agreed to by McCarthy in order to clinch victory in his drawn-out race to become speaker in January.
By a vote of 216 to 210, the historic motion prevailed as presiding Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) declared "the resolution is adopted...the office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant."
The Republicans joining Gaetz in his motion to vacate were Reps. Biggs (AZ), Buck (CO), Burchett (TN), Crane (AZ), Good (VA), Mace (SC), Rosendale (MT
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None of the Republicans who voted to dump McCarthy have a chance.
Personally, I don’t think Gaetz has any interest in the position. Whoever is interested will obviously need his support, but that could be a number of people.
Uh, Democrats?
How is this a "major loss" to President Trump, who has supported both McCarthy (for Speaker) and Matt (for the perpetual phony lawfare used against him)?
He supported McCarthy as speaker. I am not sure how much he supported the backbencher, but it doesn’t amount to much. How did he support him?
Gaetz is very smart. Steve Bannon one of driving forces behind this.
The last guy who followed Bannon’s advive ended up as POTUS. Trump fired him and talked smack about him. Bannon ignored it and continues to be his biggest supporter.
That’s a man on a mission.
Um, no.
nickcarraway has been trying to make Trump look bad, for having endorsed and supported mccarthy, and what a mistake and bad choice mccarthy was and turned out to be....
among 100’s of other people.
You know, like how bad a mistake it was for Trump to endorse desantis, and how bad desantis turned out to be....
lol...
I believe the Speaker of the House holds the strings of the Capitol police
Ditto here.
Your points are well stated.
“Well, since McCarthy is Trump’s guy, so did Trump.”
Well, no, again.
That sentiment makes you feel so much better, doesn’t it.
And I hate to burst your bubble, but it will not hurt Trump in the least.
The person who did this is well-versed in House strategy. It's someone who is in the House.
Trump has already grumbled about it. Remember, the only reason McCarthy won in January was Trump.
This judge considered himself unaccountable. He should be disbarred. Since the point of the exercise was to convict Trump regardless of evidence there was no needle Trump could have threaded. Kangaroo courts are like that.
This judge considered himself unaccountable. He should be disbarred. Since the point of the exercise was to convict Trump regardless of evidence there was no needle Trump could have threaded. Kangaroo courts are like that.
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“””Hmm interesting there are 2 vacant seats currently so that leaves 7 non votes. I am trying to look them up now but not having any luck yet”””
Luna just had a baby so she was absent and she probably would have joined with Gaetz.
Pelosi was attending Feinstein’s funeral.
If you go to the roll call, the clerk called out the names of the non-voters.
It is also the hold the party has over re-election funds from the party for new members that mean the difference between a second term and unemployment.
The party is beholden to the donors and the members are beholden to the party.
The Federal Government controls trillions of dollars that the Donor Class wants.
The Congress controls how and where those trillions go.
It is a vicious cycle.
Another promise broke."
Yes and no. He released a YUGE set of footage but only to Chatsworth.
"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Carlson access to more than 40,000 hours of security camera footage from the Capitol riot, which the Fox News host played sections of on Monday night to suggest that a majority of the people who stormed the building that day were "not insurrectionists, they were sightseers."Carlson said the footage will show that Democrats, as well as former GOP lawmakers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who sat on the January 6 House Select Committee, "lied" about the events of the Capitol riot. Carlson has frequently been accused of playing down the violence of January 6 while pushing conspiracy theories about the attack on his primetime show."
The footage revealed the "Shaman" goon strode the interior of the Capital unopposed by at least 9 USCP, and also that Sicknick died in his sleep a day later, untouched by the J6 Capital tourists. It also added to the wtf-about-Epps without adding anything conclusive.
What really should yank everyone's chain, is that those 40,000 hours are still in possession of multiple someone's, possibly Chatsworth's production crew at his former Faux home studio; and possibly if Chatsworth had the alacrity to immediately save-that-shit (debatable), someone in his crew might still have it.
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