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Floodgates open as members run for speaker
Wash Examiner ^ | Friday, October 20, 2023

Posted on 10/20/2023 3:57:58 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan

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To: CarolinaReaganFan

I’m available.


41 posted on 10/20/2023 6:04:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: gibsonguy

“ we have ID’d 22 rino’s who need to be primaried.”

You DO understand that if they are “primaried” that they will be replaced by communists, right?


42 posted on 10/20/2023 6:06:06 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

Byron Donalds gets my vote.

Liberty Score: A 100%

https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/byron-donalds


43 posted on 10/20/2023 6:15:40 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
You can't blame Matt Gaetz for the antics of the rest of the House Republicans, and in particular the RINOs that would not vote for Jim Jordan.

They made the mess, not Gaetz.

44 posted on 10/20/2023 6:42:34 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: AbolishCSEU

I am not unhappy that McCarthy is out. If theres some disruption, all the better as theres no one leading a rubberstamp agenda to our out of control spending.


45 posted on 10/20/2023 6:47:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Freest Republican
A very old adage goes: "If you are going to take a shot at the king, you better be sure you kill him, because if you don't you are a dead man."

Goetz either never learned this, or he forgot, or he just didn't care. Result is encapsulated in another old adage: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."

This is where the GOPe is at this point. There's too much serious stuff to be managed to wait until maybe you can primary those 20-or-so members of the caucus who as of now have a veto. Remember you'd have to fet ALL of them. Like them odds? I don't.

A lot of bad sheet can happen a year. Right now, if Biden dies, and Harris abdicates (she would, in a panic) Schumer is President. Think that through. Don't think the Democrats aren't. This isn't some video game where if your attack fails you go get another Jolt Cola out of the fridge while the computer reboots.

46 posted on 10/20/2023 6:47:28 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ok. Ok.

I’ll do it.


47 posted on 10/20/2023 6:52:10 PM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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To: Jim Noble

I am not quite as pessimistic as you are. That said, wins are rare for us. The bastards who run the GOPe would not even give us this one. They knew an overwhelming majorly of Republican voters wanted Jordan and it meant nothing to them


48 posted on 10/20/2023 7:18:42 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: chief lee runamok

Nope. Gaetz did us all a solid even if twerps and RINOs can’t set that - yest.


49 posted on 10/20/2023 7:20:54 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

Okay for a college toga party but a really bad look for a Speaker selection.

Voting reports of declining Jordan (200 first try, 194 third and final try)will be joined now by a lot of small totals as the Dems gloat and Americans see the GOP as weak.

And just at the time the Hamas vs. Israel battle has caused Omar and the Squad to lead a shouting denunciation of the other Dems-——the exciting split I dreamed of for years.


50 posted on 10/20/2023 7:52:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“ Right now, if Biden dies, and Harris abdicates (she would, in a panic) Schumer is President.“

I don’t think Schumer is in line.
If Harris bails, next would be Patty Murray, president pro tempore of the senate


51 posted on 10/20/2023 7:53:48 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Caption: I’m rested. I’m ready. Where do I sign up to lead the GOP in the House?🤡


52 posted on 10/20/2023 7:53:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We can revisit this later.

The most likely outcome is little change-

Absent shenanigans, the GOP holds more of the whole than even in the roaring 20’s.

That’s thriving, the opposite of dying.

Gaetz is conceivably in the top 5 most popular among voters GOP at the moment.

Folks seem to be struggling with the GOP are supposed to be the individualist, reactionary bomb throwers. Cohesion and conformity are for collectivists and communists

Old adage don’t believe my lyin’ eyes.


53 posted on 10/20/2023 8:11:40 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

The democrats are laughing at their good fortunes. 2025 will be fun with democrat control of both houses, Biden reelected... And Biden gets three SCOTUS Marxists.


54 posted on 10/20/2023 8:16:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

PS that is despite 90% of industry/institution/billioaires/wealthiest men ever colluding and conspiring against us.

I know it is tough to see-

the excesses, looting of the treasury, political persecutions, censorship, criminalizing our existence etc....are not only often tools of desperation but often are the climactic end-not a beginning.


55 posted on 10/20/2023 8:28:15 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: frank ballenger
Americans see the GOP as weak

The truth hurts.

56 posted on 10/20/2023 9:02:38 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: Reynoldo
I don’t think Schumer is in line. If Harris bails, next would be Patty Murray, president pro tempore of the senate.

Right. Not at my best tonight.

57 posted on 10/20/2023 9:04:49 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: central_va
"Gaetz did us all a solid even if twerps and RINOs can’t see that - yet."

Agreed. Getting rid of squish mccarthy was necessary

It's the twenty some Gomers Of Politics that voted down Mr. Jordan
that are in desperate need of primarying.

President Trump's continuing outing of despicable 'elites' is his greatest
achievement.

58 posted on 10/21/2023 7:46:36 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: R_Kangel

Agree

Like it or not it is the RINO’s and Democrats that hold all of the cards here.

The end result of people not know what in the hell they are voting for.

Lemming on the march


59 posted on 10/21/2023 9:27:12 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: stars & stripes forever

There’s nothing wrong with having choices.


60 posted on 10/21/2023 7:30:52 PM PDT by DrewsMum
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