Oh ho! Wait til Fox News finds out about his tan suit! Oh man, they’re gonna drag him for weeks about that! Ha ha!
Ahh Fox News sure does hate tan suits. And news.
I bet he likes dijon mustard too…
God it’s so hard to believe that the same people who got outraged at Obama for having uppity fancy dijon mustard instead of honest earnest working class yellow mustard, would also go on to worship the man who shits in a golden toilet.
It was never about mustard or suits but I think we all know that.
Wow. I knew the suit was a thing for these people, but I had no idea they got all run up over mustard.
Only if your skin is darker than the suit
It still baffles me that out of
535435 house members, 8 of them are running the showPut slightly differently. Eight members of the house can cause total gridlock because the other 427 can’t even countenance taking a single step of compromise - and not even compromise on an actual law - compromise on the person who presides over the process.
The problem isn’t really the eight. The problem is that the process has gotten so fucked we can no longer work around a 1.8% nut job rate.
Edit: math
While you are kind of correct, grouping the democrats in as part of the group that won’t compromise is not fair. They’ve come to the table with demands for compromise, and they didn’t start this problem so it’s not theirs to clean up. It’s the right and moderate right that aren’t compromising.
Indeed, the problem has been that Democrats have been compromising to keep the government running for decades, and it finally came to a point where the other team decided they could start getting away with anything.
Fault and fairness are irrelevant; they’ve never had anything to do with how government functions and damn sure don’t look to start mattering any time soon. A two party system this polarized simply will. not. work.
Which is exactly why it’s important not to bail the republicans out of their self imposed ongoing schism. They need to be broken up and that can’t happen unless they repeatedly fail to caucus together on even simple procedural tasks like electing a speaker. This is an ideal problem brought upon themselves to show they are already not a single unified party. Just a loose agglomeration of shit stirrers. Two bad kids in their granddad’s trench coat.
I certainly wouldn’t say that bailing them out is the best choice, either from a moral or a practical point of view. My point was merely that the eight nutters here are not the real problem. They are merely symptom of much more grave and perhaps systemic threats to the governmental system.
… which Republicans have a large hand in perpetuating.
I’m not saying Democrats are the saints and angels, but they’re a damn sight better than their red-faced counter-parts. What little enabling their members do pales in comparison to the enabling of the Republican party.
Wholesale change needs to happen. And moving The Leftovers party out of it’s middle-of-the-road approach is part of that, but it’s not even close to a majority. Trying to lump the two together as some sort of “everyone in government is bad!” approach is disingenuous and antithetical to seeking change.
If you want to see a solution, stop trying to generalize the problem. We’ve had generalized “solutions” for decades, and it’s done nothing but slow the degradation a little bit at best.
Your assumption that I’m making an argument to moderation is fundamentally incorrect and a little insulting.
You’re talking out of both sides of your ass.
They are relevant when it comes to elections. And that’s all that ultimately matters in our system.
Lol. Tell that to Al Gore.
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He was blamed for being boring, which he was. That was his fault. He didn’t contest Florida enough. That was his campaign’s fault.
I think the concept was that he lost even though he won.
Democrats are open to compromise.
They have indicated that they are willing to support empowering McHenry until January.
Democrats are also willing to support other Republicans as Speaker, provided Republicans offer something in return.
But they aren’t willing to support election deniers (like Jordan), and they won’t support people who previously reneged on deals with Democrats (like McCarthy).
Not that it matters, because Republicans refuse to support anyone who needs Democratic support to become Speaker.
But they aren’t willing to support election deniers (like Jordan),
I just want to say that while people who refuse to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election should be rightfully called election deniers, Jordan’s role is so much more involved: he actively attempted to get the election decertified and throw the vote to Trump.
That makes him at least one of the figureheads of an attempted coup d’etat, someone who tried to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected leader in the White House.
If he had succeeded, America today would no longer be a democracy, a nation where the electorate chooses its representatives.
If it was up to Jim Jordan, we would now live in a dictatorship, with Trump as the unelected ruler who would no longer be beholden to the will of the people or the rule of law.
If the number of seats in the House had not been frozen a century ago, this would not be a problem as it would provide representation proportional to population (as outlined in the US Constitution), rather than artificially amplifying the voices of low-population states. As it stands, citizens in Wyoming (pop. ~577k, 1 rep) have any twice as much representation per capita than those of Delaware (pop ~1.003M, 1 rep), while both have a single Representative. Compared to California (pop. ~39.24M, 52 reps), which has a ratio of 1 rep:~755k people.
There is, to be said, an issue of maintaining the level of proportionality originally intended (1 rep : 30k people). This would require over 11k representatives today. However, using the “Wyoming Rule”, where the number of seats is proportional to that required to provide one Representative per population of the least populace state (currently Wyoming), the number is only about 575. That’s much more manageable and would do a better job of providing equal representation and making gerrymandering harder.
It’s 435 in the house and 100 in the Senate.
You’re right. To be honest the website FiveThirtyEight always fucks me up on that number for some reason
Those are the number of electors in the electoral college when electing a president.
Also the number of votes needed by Gore to win florida in 2000. Unhappy little coincidence.
Because McCarthy gave away guaranteed power to avoid compromise with any Democrat.
McCarthy made the deal that allowed the 8 to oust him.
In an ideal world, the speaker is supposed to be the most centrist person, but when you have parties of hardliners and refusal to make comcessions, you get the shit thats happening right now.
I don’t get Gaetz’s constitutional argument. The Constitution only has this to say about the Speaker role:
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and Officers
It hardly seems like a “desecration” to let the House choose a temporary speaker.
I know, I know, it’s shocking that Gaetz is not a serious person.
His comments are probably based more on the traditions and history of the House rather than any written law, House rule, or even Article of the Constitution
Remember when Republicans obsessed about running government like a business?
In the real world, this level of incompetence gets you fired.
It’s not incompetence; it’s sabotage.
Running like a bussiness: fire everyone who knows what they are doing, hire cheap replacement, present huge cuts to spending to prop up stock price, sell all stock at high, flee before the company implodes. Repeat.
In my experience, incompetence invariably gets one promoted to a position where the incompetence can be blamed on someone else.
Ha! You wish. It just as often gets you promoted.
Not when daddy owns the business.
Including voting for Jeffries?
Own the libs by giving Jeffries the one job that no sane Republican wants
Gaetz/Martian: Ack! Ack ack ack! Ack ack!
Reporter: Sir? We can’t understand you. Why are you talking like this?
turns top of his watch
Gaetz/Martian: TREASON! GAETZ NO VOTE! MCHENRY BAD!
shuffles off weirdly
You’re ruining that movie for me. I hope you realize that.
Lmao. Sorry. People see the five-head and see Butthead. I see a Martian.
I’m still in shock someone accepted money to sleep with that…thing.
honestly, always see a can of crisco with a corpse’s face stretched around it. But, totally understand the comparisons you’re relating.
Pretty much
Its so hard to parody republicans when the reality is them using light beer in their rhetoric of federal government operations
Gaetz is a fucking drunk that had his daddy make his DUI problems go away. I can’t say I’m surprised he relates everything to beer.
That’s was just weird to read
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz ® said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.).
Gaetz was one of the eight Republicans who sided with House Democrats to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) from his role earlier this month.
Now, as the House has gone weeks without a Speaker amid multiple crises like the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and a looming government shutdown, some in the lower chamber have considered a resolution to give McHenry more power.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who recently faced two failed attempts to gain the gavel this week, is also reportedly planning to back a resolution to empower McHenry.
“I will not sit back and watch a complete betrayal of the GOP base with this ‘plan’ that’s being discussed,” Boebert wrote on X.
“I ran because I was sick and tired of politicians coming up here and cutting deals and releasing ‘holier than thou’ statements about why we just had to accept it.”
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