Abrignac
2 years ago
MTG filed a motion that requires a vote within 48 hours to vacate the speaker.

Suppose Hakim was feinting when he said the Democrats would vote to keep Johnson? He gets removed and it takes another week or so to fill the speakership?

Real smart. Nothing like telling the voters that the Republicans are incapable of governing 6 months before the elections.

What a moron.
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
Thanks for reminding me to donate to her again.
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Speyside2
2 years ago
I imagine the Democrats were hoping for this. Republicans again look like fractured losers no matter how this plays out. I assume she thinks she has the votes to oust him.
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MACS
2 years ago
Fractured losers beats being in lockstep to ruin the country.
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
Do you not think it odd that the Republicans nominate a guy who’s never chaired a committee and was a member of the Freedom Caucus and the Democrats expressed no concern?

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MaduroJorge
2 years ago
iMTG is insane or compromised. Should be out campaigning with Trump.
Bad timing calling to oust the most prominent elected Republican, before the fall Election. If Hakeem pulls out
Republicans risk losing the razor thin House majority and who knows what new Trump Witch Hunt a Democrat Congress
will start.
Plus all the Biden corruption investigations will come to a screeching halt!!


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Abrignac
2 years ago

Fractured losers beats being in lockstep to ruin the country.

MACS wrote:



Here is a very possible outcome.

At the moment the Republicans hold a 4 seat majority. Of that majority 3 have announced their intent to resign prior to the November elections citing unhappiness in the direction of the caucus. Suppose they simply don’t show up the day a new speaker is to be elected if the speakership is vacated. It’s certainly one way to say FU to the likes of MTG and others like her. Suppose Johnson and one other Republican also fails to show up for the vote. You’ll have 213 Democrats voting for Jeffries and 212 Republicans voting it doesn’t matter who because Jeffries is elected Speaker.

Or better yet the Republicans spend a couple weeks running who knows how many candidates because none of them can get elected. Voters will remember that absurdity come November when every single member of the House has to run for re-election. Perhaps they send a majority of Democrats to the House? What then? What was accomplished? But worse still is nothing the Republicans who led the revolt gets passed because they aren’t in the majority.

But I guess 150% of nothing is better than 25-50% of something. How do I arrive at 150% of nothing? Easy. If the Democrats gain the majority in the House then it’s possible that they will push the country even further to the left. But hey that’s ok because at least they stood on principle. Didn’t get a damn thing done but they can sit around holding their desks because they were principled.

Change always happens incrementally but some people just don’t get it.
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rfenst
2 years ago

iMTG is insane or compromised...
Bad timing calling to oust the most prominent elected Republican, before the fall Election. ...
Plus all the Biden corruption investigations will come to a screeching halt!!

MaduroJorge wrote:


MTG has psychological or psychiatric problems.
R's are still dysfunctional.
I haven't seen anything from the committee investigating Joe in quite some time now.
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MaduroJorge
2 years ago
It's sabotage. .A deep state swamp agency must have some dirt on her, and in exchange for her creating this chaos. they let her walk.
Turn over the House to Dem who will revive Jan 6 and surely move to make Trump ineligible to run.

I agree the R's look like 5th graders.
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Abrignac
2 years ago
So right after MTG filed her motion Scalise called for a vote to squash it. Fortunately his motion carried by a vote of 359-33. So Johnson is still the Speaker.

But there are a few take aways from this.

1) MTG listed one of her reasons for filing her motion was because Johnson worked with the Democrats to pass a spending bill. That’s ironic because Democrats out voted Republicans in support of her motion by 2.91:1. Only 11 Republicans cast votes for her motion, yet they were joined by 32 Democrats. So it’s safe to say she had more Democrats as a percentage supporting her motion than Johnson had on the spending bill.

2) About that pesky spending bill, MTG decried it for all it’s pork barrel spending. Yet she herself inserted over a dozen line item earmarks for her own district. So much for being principled. Unless being principled means do as I say, not as I do.

3) Obviously principles had zero to do with her motion. It was nothing more than an attempt to grandstand which In reality painted her as a village idiot. Her motion accomplished nothing in terms of her rhetoric.

4) In terms of representing her district she did her constituents a great disservice. The game of politics is much like the game of thrones. If you step off the reservation you better win and win decisively. Otherwise you’ll lose your head. Moving forward she has an enormous target on her back that current party leadership will take every opportunity to hit. Needless to say any legislation she sponsors that could directly benefit her district wouldn’t even get a vote in committee much less on the floor.

Ask Garrett Graves what happens when an attempt to undermine your party’s leadership fails. Last year he got caught up trying to manipulate Scalise’s attempt at the Speakership after McCarthy was ousted. His safely Republican district was redrawn into a widely gerrymandered minority district. His only hope at reelection now is for the courts to toss the lastest map and put him in a red district.

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Mr. Jones
2 years ago
When the democrats save a republican speakerphone you know something is UP...
HAKEEM BE PLOTTING
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8trackdisco
2 years ago
Thankfully, less than a dozen followed the nutjob in taking the general election suicide pill.

Some of you righties must secretly want a Biden reelection so you can pizs and moan four more years, as you cheer for contnued and enhanced Republican divisions in the runup.


MTG the truest of Trump apostles. While at the same time Trump didn't want her to do it.

Sooooo Trumpers. Are you backing Trump or MTG?
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rfenst
2 years ago

It's sabotage. .A deep state swamp agency must have some dirt on her, and in exchange for her creating this chaos. they let her walk.
Turn over the House to Dem who will revive Jan 6 and surely move to make Trump ineligible to run.

I agree the R's look like 5th graders.

MaduroJorge wrote:


If someone "must have dirt on," she appears not to care less.
I'll stick with my original Dx.
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HockeyDad
2 years ago

Thankfully, less than a dozen followed the nutjob in taking the general election suicide pill.

Some of you righties must secretly want a Biden reelection so you can pizs and moan four more years, as you cheer for contnued and enhanced Republican divisions in the runup.


MTG the truest of Trump apostles. While at the same time Trump didn't want her to do it.

Sooooo Trumpers. Are you backing Trump or MTG?

8trackdisco wrote:



For quite some time I’ve felt the traditional Republicans are perfectly fine losing honorably and then being the opposition party. When you’re the party in charge you actually need to fix stuff like heading off a national bankruptcy.
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jeebling
2 years ago
I realize this is a public discussion forum, but still, the ill informed opinions presented as fact here are hilarious.
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Abrignac
2 years ago

For quite some time I’ve felt the traditional Republicans are perfectly fine losing honorably and then being the opposition party. When you’re the party in charge you actually need to fix stuff like heading off a national bankruptcy.

HockeyDad wrote:



Amazing how so few words can throughly and accurately describe a problem.
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JGRAZ
2 years ago

I realize this is a public discussion forum, but still, the ill informed opinions presented as fact here are hilarious.

jeebling wrote:



Sometimes opinions are facts in the minds of sheep. Unfortunately this can and does describe both sides.
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jeebling
2 years ago
JGRAZ, absolutely. And describes me at times as well. I’m really trying not to do that though. Progress.
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RayR
2 years ago

Do you not think it odd that the Republicans nominate a guy who’s never chaired a committee and was a member of the Freedom Caucus and the Democrats expressed no concern?

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ZRX1200 wrote:



I wish I had a smart congressman like that to represent me.
I've never been represented.

The congressman for my district resigned recently to take a job as the president of a theater.
They say he was kinda ghey because he had weird hair and a high voice.
I used to know a girl that worked for that theater and she said all the actors were ghey, so that's probably why he took the job there.

So we had a special election a couple of weeks ago to elect a new congressman.
Duhmacracy elected another Marxist I say he's a Marxist because when he originally ran for the state senate, I thought Karl Marx was the ghostwriter of his campaign mumbo jumbo.

So this time the essence of his congressional campaign was "taking on the MAGA extremists in Washington" and codifying the right to an abortion into federal law, probably anytime anywhere. That was about it. He's one of those fake Catholics like Biden and Pelosi.

Duhmacracy is so dumb.


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HockeyDad
2 years ago

I wish I had a smart congressman like that to represent me.
I've never been represented.

The congressman for my district resigned recently to take a job as the president of a theater.
They say he was kinda ghey because he had weird hair and a high voice.
I used to know a girl that worked for that theater and she said all the actors were ghey, so that's probably why he took the job there.

So we had a special election a couple of weeks ago to elect a new congressman.
Duhmacracy elected another Marxist I say he's a Marxist because when he originally ran for the state senate, I thought Karl Marx was the ghostwriter of his campaign mumbo jumbo.

So this time the essence of his congressional campaign was "taking on the MAGA extremists in Washington" and codifying the right to an abortion into federal law, probably anytime anywhere. That was about it. He's one of those fake Catholics like Biden and Pelosi.

Duhmacracy is so dumb.


RayR wrote:



Hold my beer….
My daughter’s US Rep is AOC.
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