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lol a jordan charm offense where's the charm part of the offensive coming from?

so..... the next option is trump, right? lol

prolly what's best for the forum, I was definitely only going to refer to him as David Duke without the baggage

Total Shipshow.... 🤣

Idk if thus was a joke but speaking of competing interests, Olbermann said on his podcast that George Santos put out a statement that he supports whomever won't expell him from congress LOL

I think the hard right folks are louder and attention seekers and the media eats that **** up.... but if they can keep a small number consolidated they effectively have veto power over it so I think the coverage is warranted. But I'm also someone not paying attention to the coverage outside of cspan from 7 to 10am lol

The holdouts I'm referring to is the gaetz/Bobert hard right gaggle. I think you're right about the conflicting demands and the agreement for mYkev might be the only way for them to get a speaker. I worry about them not being able to support our allies but on the other hand, any legislative calendar days the house gop burns up needlessly and fruitlessly is really good for our nation.

I think in the holdouts worldview there really is no distinction between a temp and permanent speaker because the govt shutdown is so soon, they would need/want to have their chosen permanent or temp speaker for that fight specifically.

There's a congressman from Arkansas with the first name of French on Cspan and he said as of last night scalise had holdouts and was working to get them to his side, and there would be no floor vote until the outcome was as desired. Explicitly stated they wanted to avoid the myKev 15 vote debacle.

I'm intrigued about how they would appoint or approve a temp speaker and how that differs from a real speaker appointment process. I suspect a lot of hold outs will feel the same way whether the speaker is temp or a little bit less temp like MyKev was lol

Yes I think so too. Could be wrong though.

so all of his constitution supporting was an act of charity?

To me it's super conspicuous the vote on the floor didn't happen. I think that means he doesn't have the votes...... yet. This whole thing of putting **** up to a vote and losing was a myKevin era thing. There will be one vote on the floor because it won't get to the floor until it's settled.

It really seems like we could actually get a speaker jim jordan... dude has never authored a single piece of legislation that has become law. Lol Republicans or RepubLOLicans

Nice of Cocaine Mitch to clean up after the House republic party in the wall street journal today

I must have, I don't see the button to continue for free

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The fact is currently it is unfunded and was specifically removed from CR just passed and there's no way to do anything about it or Israel in CO guess right now. That you happen to be optimistic about the funding is tangential.

I agree that you believe that.

Ukraine funding is very publicly in peril thanks to the GOP. Did you forget already?

it is a pretty powerful position from which to attack and sabotage biden agenda. MyKevin unilaterally declared the "impeachment inquiry" and a Speaker Chump would be able to do the same. Moreover, Chump himself said he would take the job....

It turns out signaling to the entire world that the US isn't going to stand by it's allies, to the point where they'll shut down the government to not stand by our allies, isn't a good idea.

FYI guys: Republicans wouldn't be so extreme if it weren't for the Democrats. Illinois Democrats drew new maps. They pushed the GOP to the right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/07/illinois-congressional-map-gerrymandering/

McCarthy unilaterally started the "impeachment inquiry". Is it really the case dems should vote for the person that did that?

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