Posted on 01/04/2023 12:14:11 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., voted "present" on Wednesday during the fourth attempt to agree on a House speaker, saying that Republicans need to deliberate further and "stop wasting everyone's time."
"We have a constitutional duty to elect the Speaker of the House, but we have to deliberate further as a Republican conference until we have enough votes and stop wasting everyone’s time," Spartz said in a statement Wednesday.
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He doesn’t trust McTurd either
That’s the real issue.
Where are the “drop boxes”?
How is she elect? Wasn’t she sworn in yesterday?
Nancy will be casting proxy votes for any Democraps who have to take a powder...
You may be onto something.
We will see in the coming votes.
Nobody gets sworn in until there’s a speaker. Nothing at all happens until there is a speaker.
A face that could stop an 8-day clock, but she’s right.
“How is she elect? Wasn’t she sworn in yesterday?”
The story I read said that no House members have been sworn in, Speaker has to be elected first. Is that right? Anyone got any more info?
We don’t want Paul Ryan McJunior!
“He doesn’t trust McTurd either”
I like the conflict because it demonstrates some conservatives standing their ground.
Three things I don’t like about McCarthy:
1. He’s a California politician.
2. It’s cocky for him to say “It may not happen on the day we want it, but it’s going to happen”.
3. He’s moved into the Speaker’s office???
None of them should vote Present. It could result in a Democrat squeaking in. Right now Hakim Jeffries has more votes than McCarthy and a single Present vote reduces the number needed from 218 to 217. Jeffries has 212. If they have to abstain for whatever reason they should vote for a GOP candidate they know won’t win.
I know she voted last when she knew it wouldn’t matter. Maybe it’s gamesmanship.
“ Is she representing Indiana or Ukraine? “
Well, that depends. Where are most of her kickbacks coming from?
TRUMP FOR SPEAKER!
"Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., voted "present" on Wednesday during the fourth attempt to agree on a House speaker, saying that Republicans need to deliberate further and "stop wasting everyone's time [emphasis added]."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Respectfully to Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, her comment about wasting time is not a good sign imo.
More specifically, and militia issues aside, given that one of the main constitutionally enumerated duties of the feds is to deliver the mail, most so-called federal domestic and foreign policy based on stolen state power and uniquely associated state revenues, Rep.-elect Spartz may not understand that the constitutionally limited power House would otherwise have more time to find the right speaker than she probably thinks.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
YERP!
The new members are obviously the ones who elect a speaker. Otherwise the dems would stay in charge.
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