The House is constitutionally constipated.
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Or expose the ones with enough independent wealth that they can go on without a paycheck indefinitely while working their full time jobs. Thinking of the squad. Not that I expect any of them to vote for McCarthy, but this technicality will hurt the “good” ones more than the bad, I think.
This seems to be SO much of the GQP congressional strategy in recent years. They can play their stupid, harmful, performative games knowing that the Dems will then need to waste precious time counteracting them. Just like how they don’t actually want meaningful immigration reform, because then they’d lose that campaign pillar, so they’ll complain about the ‘problem’ constantly but do nothing to address it in any meaningful way. 
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He, you know Kevin-who-would-be-king, made the motion at the beginning of the session. Every democrat (several brought literal popcorn) and most of the republicans voted against it. Absofreakinghilarious.
As of right now, he’s lost a nearly unprecedented sixth vote.
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I’m not saying the Dems are making this circus into a drinking game but they might be…
“He lost again. Drink!”
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I love this:
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is one Democrat who has expressed openness to working with Republicans to find a compromise alternative. But any Democratic cooperation would come at a steep price.
“There have to be, in my view, at least two conditions that are met first. They can’t hold this country hostage with the debt ceiling or government shutdowns. And second, they can’t have subpoena power to do frivolous investigations against the president,” Khanna said on CNN Tuesday evening.
Agreeing not to bring the country to the edge of financial chaos is a “steep price.”
Assh*les, all the way down.
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Oh, is that against the rules? Like anyone in the GOP cares about following rules. 
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I hope they are playing drinking games and laughing their asses off at the GOP.
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it is laughable. the clown show, the circus animals, the barkers and side-show shills. the tent is on fire and they must all pile into the clown car, but can’t because matt gaetz keeps calling “shotgun” and mtgreene doesn’t know how to drive stick.
this sad farce brought to you by dump and co., riffing off the great pretenter, ronny raygun, in a nazi death spiral they could never harness, let alone ride.
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I’m drinking right now!
Cammack’s evident glee at “owning the libs” is so annoying. Diversity of thought, my ass. Where are the Repubs standing up for or speaking out for reproductive health, LGBTQ safety, disowning the “stolen election” narrative? I would love some examples of their “diversity of thought.”
(Well, not counting full on Nazi rhetoric…)
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We’ve got 9 months before that happens thanks to the omnibus bill that passed last session.
ETA: Oops, no they didn’t.
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As I write this, there have been six rounds with more to come. So that makes it the [counts up the list] 9th most rounds (so far). And most in a century.
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Most actual congresspeople probably have lots of more effective ways to leverage their position for income, especially GOPers. However, my understanding is that it also means that a lot of congressional staffers won’t get paid, and they are the ones who are more likely to feel it.
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And now this.
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They don’t need an ‘exit strategy’.
As long as no Speaker is chosen, then nothing gets done, and that’s a win in their book; cutting Big Bad Government down to size.
Budgets? Who cares? Too much socialism in there, anyway…
And best of all, they get to dodge blame for crashing the economy [among other things] because they didn’t [couldn’t!] vote yea or nay on any of it… none of it will be their fault, nosiree!
Why, just look at those evil Democrats, refusing to lift a finger to help… there they are, all smug & partisan! Talk about putting Party before Country!
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Projection?
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“We don’t have an exit strategy”
I somehow first read this as “We don’t have an exist strategy” and I think that’s just as accurate.
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