Re: Sadly, These Are Not Serious People
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:14 pm
His past will haunt him, as it should
All Things Kansas.
https://www.kansascrimson.com/boards/
I haven't heard or read any updates this morning, but those are my thoughts. Although I'd add that they might grant a 30-day speakership to the current speaker pro-tem McHenry, to buy more time and deal with the Israel/Ukraine/border/Taiwan aid package, keep the government from closing down in a month, you know, GOVERNING for a fucking change, stuff.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:45 am I do not think Jordan will end up with the gavel. But that's probably the most likely single outcome at this point.
In any case, we are seeing, in realtime, the Republican party sign its own death warrant. Either (1) a few normies will cross the line (in which case the Rs will internally splinter), or (2) the Rs will align behind an unserious oathbreaker who cannot actually get anything done (and the public has grown weary of the Rs' shit).
I do not support expansion of pro-tem powers. One, I think the Rs should be made to lie in the bed they've beshitted. Two, I do not trust - at all - that any deviation from rules and practice will NOT be weaponized.Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:00 amI haven't heard or read any updates this morning, but those are my thoughts. Although I'd add that they might grant a 30-day speakership to the current speaker pro-tem McHenry, to buy more time and deal with the Israel/Ukraine/border/Taiwan aid package, keep the government from closing down in a month, you know, GOVERNING for a fucking change, stuff.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:45 am I do not think Jordan will end up with the gavel. But that's probably the most likely single outcome at this point.
In any case, we are seeing, in realtime, the Republican party sign its own death warrant. Either (1) a few normies will cross the line (in which case the Rs will internally splinter), or (2) the Rs will align behind an unserious oathbreaker who cannot actually get anything done (and the public has grown weary of the Rs' shit).
SMH
I've thought about that too.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:24 amI do not support expansion of pro-tem powers. One, I think the Rs should be made to lie in the bed they've beshitted. Two, I do not trust - at all - that any deviation from rules and practice will NOT be weaponized.Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:00 amI haven't heard or read any updates this morning, but those are my thoughts. Although I'd add that they might grant a 30-day speakership to the current speaker pro-tem McHenry, to buy more time and deal with the Israel/Ukraine/border/Taiwan aid package, keep the government from closing down in a month, you know, GOVERNING for a fucking change, stuff.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:45 am I do not think Jordan will end up with the gavel. But that's probably the most likely single outcome at this point.
In any case, we are seeing, in realtime, the Republican party sign its own death warrant. Either (1) a few normies will cross the line (in which case the Rs will internally splinter), or (2) the Rs will align behind an unserious oathbreaker who cannot actually get anything done (and the public has grown weary of the Rs' shit).
SMH
If they want to play the "the vile Dems won't change the rules to allow for our incompetence" then I suppose they can try to see how that plays out for them. I doubt it wins them any undecided voters.Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:40 amI've thought about that too.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:24 amI do not support expansion of pro-tem powers. One, I think the Rs should be made to lie in the bed they've beshitted. Two, I do not trust - at all - that any deviation from rules and practice will NOT be weaponized.Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:00 am
I haven't heard or read any updates this morning, but those are my thoughts. Although I'd add that they might grant a 30-day speakership to the current speaker pro-tem McHenry, to buy more time and deal with the Israel/Ukraine/border/Taiwan aid package, keep the government from closing down in a month, you know, GOVERNING for a fucking change, stuff.
SMH
Does anyone remember how we got here? How republicans broke the debt-ceiling deal that McCarthy and Biden had agreed to in May, leading us back to the brink of yet ANOTHER republican-threatened government shut down in Sept?
The problem with not agreeing to a 30-day cease fire is that, republicans will weaponize the democratic refusal to agree as the reason for all the drama, exactly like they're currently blaming "all the democrats joined only 8 republicans to fire McCarthy, or we wouldn't be here now", bullshit.
There has been a lot of anger over Hannity et al putting pressure on republican reps to vote for Jordan, which many republicans feel would be rewarding a small number of reps for ousting McCarthy originally.
The four Republicans who voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday but not today — Reps. Vern Buchanan (Fla.), Drew Ferguson (Ga.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa) and Pete Stauber (Minn.) — don’t fall into the categories that many of the previous Jordan holdouts do.
None of them are on the House Appropriations Committee or the House Armed Services Committee. Nor are they members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is home to many moderate Republicans. And they don’t represent especially competitive districts.
But they have one thing in common: All four voted to certify President Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.
It's, ah, concerning that there's a great chance that the second person in line for the Presidency will be someone who believes, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen.japhy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 12:43 pm Coincidence?
The four Republicans who voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday but not today — Reps. Vern Buchanan (Fla.), Drew Ferguson (Ga.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa) and Pete Stauber (Minn.) — don’t fall into the categories that many of the previous Jordan holdouts do.
None of them are on the House Appropriations Committee or the House Armed Services Committee. Nor are they members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is home to many moderate Republicans. And they don’t represent especially competitive districts.
But they have one thing in common: All four voted to certify President Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.