Posted on 10/11/2023 10:15:55 AM PDT by conservative98
On a very positive note....it would free Jordan for VP
Jordan did well.
Steve Scalise only received 14 more votes than Jim Jordan.
113-99.
Wow, I’m shocked.
these are awful people. As hard as I try I can’t understand their mindset, or that of the voters who think guys like him are leaders. He couldn’t lead a troop of Girl Scouts on their annual cookie drive.
Well, at least that idiot Ken Buck is still on track to get his CNN gig.
President Trump has been all over the board with his comments on House Republicans. He had nothing to gain by sticking his oar in, but if he WAS committed to Jordan he should’ve worked the phone for him,
And now he’s embarrassed himself with Jordan’s loss.
It’ll be interesting to see if the caucus maintains discipline in getting Scalise across the finish line, but if he loses five votes his loyalists aren’t going to swing to Jordan.
Has Gaetz put out a statement?
Scalise’s speakership is likely to be indistinguishable from McCarthy’s
Any new speaker would be crazy to accept the gavel under those terms. Has the policy been changed? I haven’t seen any news on that issue.
Perhaps, but maybe he won't lie about things like McCarthy did.
“Multiple twitter accounts reporting 113 to 99”
If that is in fact true and the 99 decide to vote with the Dims, then the GOP in the house will again demonstrate it is not a party bu just a loose coalition of groups that cannot get along.
The Democrats win in Washington D.C. because they can set aside their differences between each other when the main job is to oppose the GOP. The GOP splinters between Libertarians, social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, constitutional conservatives and now populists, and by splintering they - all the GOP groups - always lose. Until they can compromise and build coaltions with each other the GOP groups will always lose to the Dims, because they will refuse to work closely enough with the GOP members they disagree with.
We’ll see
This thread and it’s obvious highlighting of how we can’t get along amongst ourselves should be bookmarked to remind us of why we can’t have nice things.
I don’t know where to stand on this either.. but I can see that our division is clear.
Gaetz is a moron. How is Scalise any better than McCarthy?
The President has advanced dementia and terminal corruption, the Speaker is undergoing cancer treatment, the Senate minority leader is having strokes nearly every time he speaks in public.
Pretty appropriate, all in all, for the state of America today.
McCarthy was letting Jordan do some actual work?
Not impressed. He is ill and certainly not fit to lead the house and is he any better than McCarthy?
Jackass thing to say about a good Christian man, i’m not crazy about him either, but that is discussing and unworthy of fr.
The party aparatchiks hate Trump almost as much as they hate the base.
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