No one in their right mind trusts McCarthy. Why do you think they want it in writing?
Kevin McCarthy failed to get House speaker votes. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries received more than he did
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One of the major concessions McCarthy made with his Republican detractors would make it easier than ever for them to fire him.
McCarthy agreed to lower the number of lawmakers required to force a vote to oust the speaker from five to one, according to CNN. He also agreed to place more House Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee and vowed to hold votes on controversial term limit and border security bills.
Basically, it sounds like any Republican could raise their hand at any time to say “I think Kevin is an asshole, who wants to fire him?” and force a vote on the issue.
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The “Freedom” Caucus (read as Seditionists) want the right to call a vote of no-confidence requiring only five members. (Used to be more - 5 is a concession he already gave up. Boebert demands it to be only 1!). This really is a coup within the Republican Party.
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Thanks! Is that a “special, just-for-Kevin” rule, or did he promise to bake that into the house rulebook forever?
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Yes and yes. Right now there are two Cabinet secretaries who are ineligible in the presidential line of succession, the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Homeland Security. If all those in the earlier positions were unavailable they would be skipped. The same holds for the Speaker.
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This is what stable genius was babbling about today.
And then this for good measure. Is it any wonder the republicans are behaving the way they are?
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So, a vote of no confidence twice a day, everyday for the next two years. Sounds like a whole lot of fun. /s
Why does Kevin want this job again?
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I’m still laughing at McCarthy, but I think it’s also good to remember what he keeps bending to in order to get the gavel and the danger pandering to these chuckle-fucks represents…
Also… did someone here post a link to a story about how this is just yet another coup attempt? Cause that seems about right too.
But also…
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maybe they can get a chatbot to do it
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They want to be the puppet masters to McCarthy as Speaker in name only but with all the decisions coming from them.
All the deals give them more and more power to set all the agenda items and make all the decisions. Including the ability to remove him as the enforcement mechanism.
From McCarthy’s perspective, he just wants the title and doesn’t care about the actual work, so that’s all fine. Even if it makes him look stupid, doesn’t matter, he just wants that title.
From the other McCarthy supporter’s perspective, I don’t get it. They have to know that by staying with him they’re just giving the 20 all the real power. They might as well be voting for Gaetz or Boebert. The result will be the same with McCarthy required to clear everything with them first, otherwise they’ll just remove him.
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It’s just a thought.
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No Republican can be trusted with an arrangement like that. There’s too much to be gained by double-crossing (“owning”) the Dems - they’d become a folk hero, and then the tale of it would encourage the GQP base to elect forty of these nut jobs instead of the twenty-five we have to deal with right now. Remember, McCarthy was the the GOP member who was furious about the insurrection, until he kissed Trump’s ring six days later. That initial burst of rationality is mostly why the Seditionist Caucus doesn’t want him.
It sounds like he’s giving them every single thing they want in order to win over the Chock-Full-O’-Nuts Gang today.
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And Jamie Raskin, with the burn:
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Something good might just come out of this debacle.
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At the rate the election for Speaker is going, someone’s going to have to reBoing this article. There’s only a couple more days that people can post here.
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Dear dog, this man is smart. The idea that Dems could put Mcyuk into the speaker’s chair with the right concessions and then let them battle it out…
I have a feeling that would be preferable to Mcyuk pandering to the fascist 20 (Heather Cox Richardson - #2804 by milliefink).
It’s just a thought.
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