:clap: Thanks, Georgia!The People have spoken. — US Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga), re-elected 12.06.22
:yikes: :scream:Fuck me, suppose Kevin McCarthy can't get to 218 in January ... — 180 Proof
:rofl:House Republicans areon the verge of becominga total clown show. — MAGA Clown Sean Hannity, 03Jan23
Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina has said a non-negotiable for him is if McCarthy is “willing to shut the government down rather than raising the debt ceiling.”
But I think a more accurate picture is that people like Gaetz and Boebert want to make a show of things — Mikie
If these kinds of people cause a US debt default — Wayfarer
My 2 bit(coin)s are on a half dozen GOP members-elect making a deal with the Dems and voting for Jeffries within a week unless McCarthy gives up (and probably resigns from Congress in disgrace) allowing the GOP caucus to vote in a powerless stooge as Speaker.Either Dems Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries D-NY or ... "Individual-1" (aka "Defendent-1") as next Speaker of the House of Representatives??? :brow: — 180 Proof
Thanks! So why aren't the Dems making a deal? Seems they benefit from a split GOP instead of letting them reach a deal where concessions are made on who campaigns where. — Benkei
Can you explain to me how any legislation is ever going to get passed seeing as anything the HFC don't want to veto will never get through the Democratic senate? — Baden
Can you explain to me how any legislation is ever going to get passed seeing as anything the HFC don't want to veto will never get through the Democratic senate?
As in what is even the point of being speaker if you guarantee your own legislative impotence? — Baden
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