Time to put away the dog whistles, I guess. Proposed: The House of Representatives is a clown car.2/ "We have reached an existential crisis in the country. I look across, and I see that the left has captured virtually every institution. It is time that we reassert ourselves and put America back on the road to recovery."
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2023
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 5, 2023QED.
"Okay, Kevin, you can keep the office. But we run everything else, right? You just stay in your office and don't bother anybody, agreed?" Honestly, I don't know what "very close" means anymore. McCarthy is promising the entire Rules Committee to the 20/21 (they only get 9 seats out of 13), and at that point the crazies will bottle up legislation to raise the debt ceiling and crash the full faith and credit of the U.S. government just because they can. Will that be too far when it happens, Rep. Stewart?MSNBC: Is there anything that McCarthy could give up in these negotiations that would make you give up your support of him?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023
CHRIS STEWART: There actually is. And honestly, there's many of us who feel we're very, very close to that. pic.twitter.com/Oqf9zxzaUQ
Still wondering where that threshold is.As much as the consensus candidate still seems kind of ridiculous, are we getting to the point where Democrats all suddenly getting behind a Republican who hasn’t made deals with insurrectionists could peel off enough R votes from those who resent McCarthy for doing so? https://t.co/YTa7oEO4qQ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 5, 2023
LEADERSHIPNESS!.@mkraju asks @GOPLeader: “At what point do you say that this is not going to change for you?”
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) January 5, 2023
McCarthy: “Uh, after I win.”
I dunno; do they?.@jamiegangel on @chiproytx’s previous signals that he could get most of the holdouts to back McCarthy:
— Will Saletan (@saletan) January 5, 2023
“He put out there that he had 10 votes with him.” Today’s roll call indicates “he doesn’t have it. There is chaos in the chaos caucus.”
Those concessions are made by McCarthy, who would be "bound" to them insofar as he wants to keep his word once he's the Speaker (that's really where appointments to the Rules Committee come in; it can decide to tell the Speaker to piss up a rope and refuse to let bills on the floor). Without McCarthy, who do the 20 hold the concessions against? (I mean, face it, they've already knocked him off. This endless round of votes where Jeffries gets 212 and McCarthy gets something over 200 is the classic ironic definition of insanity. This situation doesn't change unless someone outside the 20 changes it, by engaging the Democrats as members of the House (rather than enemies to be rolled over in tanks). I think the truth is both sides in the GOP have losing hands, and eventually at least 7 Republicans are going to get the Democrats to agree to a candidate and this ends. It's when that happens that's now the question. At least 7 McCarthy voters have to realize McCarthy is never going to be Speaker of the House; not this time around, anyway. However, if this analysis is correct:The best commentary I'm seeing is that is saying that McCarthy's support may be hardening rather than softening because of anger agst the 20. He's basically given them concessions to run the House themselves. And if they knock him off they win AND keep all those concessions.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2023
Since this is getting aired again, let's get real here: Ds aren't the hold outs here. They're probably QUITE willing to give votes for a coalition speaker. But with conditions. Probably something like 1) no debt ceiling hostage taking, 2) no govt shutdowns, 3) bipartisan ...
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2023
Then yeah, stalemate continues into the foreseeable future. However, I still refuse to believe there aren't 7 Republicans who would happily endanger the full faith and credit of the United States (not to mention the U.S. and world economies) by clapping for a Speaker or a Rules Committee that won't let the House even vote on a measure to raise the debt ceiling.3/ So the whole question is moot. It is an entirely about the Republican party.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2023
Kevin McCarthy has now taken this many Ls in his misadventure to become House Speaker pic.twitter.com/V5HxYb5q4i
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023
Don Bacon on Fox News floats the idea of forgetting about the 20 anti-McCarthy House Republicans and negotiating with Democrats to elect a House Speaker pic.twitter.com/IfOOrTM4NC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023
Incredibly Productive House Of Representatives Assembles For 8th Vote In Just 3 Days https://t.co/aQkKPqXzx9 pic.twitter.com/NkiqPhA7EX
— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 5, 2023
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un declines invitation to be Speaker of US Congress, as he only heads functional bodies of government. pic.twitter.com/1CGGXmU1PU
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) January 5, 2023
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