The house voted 216-210 to out McCarthy from the Speaker of the House. What's this even over? The pro Temp speaker will be Patrick McHenry from North Carolina.
A move was made, on multiple counts, to impeach both Biden and Harris, as well as Obama and Joe's other handlers, regarding their multitudinous acts of malfeasance, misconduct, and blatant assaults on the Bill of Rights.
McCarthy sat on it, then at the last minute, told the GOP his intentions to do absolutely nothing about it. Offenses listed miles long, billions of times worse than what Trump got impeached for TWICE OVER!
Blatant dereliction of duty! This includes cutting wires that Texans paid millions for, leaving the southern border unprotected against headhunting gangs of sadists from Mexico that have essentially declared war on America! Had anyone not a modern Democrat done that, it would be called TREASON! But because it's Joe and Barry, we're told to look the other way!
The headhunters are now in New York causing trouble, to the point that even New York believes that the border is too open!
And then there is the current irresponsible spending that Congress has been doing for a long time.
McCarthy became speaker on the grounds that he would restore sanity to our spending. He took pains to do the opposite, and showed contempt for his own party when confronted about it.
He also had no emotion when Democrats tried to protect their interests with illegally pulling a fire alarm to disrupt a legal proceeding, yet expected zero consequences for this!
Bear in mind , McCarthy and Democrats would have you believe pulling a stunt like that to disrupt proceedings that would protect Americans from embezzlement by crooked politicians is somehow not an act of insurrection!
But they're fine charging a teen with insurrection and putting him in federal prison for 17 years for shaking a fence out of frustration, when he disrupted or destroyed nothing by shaking it! And even pressed charges on his friends for being his friends, convicting them of conspiracy in spite admission to having no clear evidence, even when one of those friends had an airtight alibi!
For this and more, McCarthy not only deserved to be ousted, but deserves to be criminally charged for high crimes and misdemeanors against the republic! Along with all the Democrats he has been protecting!
Klaus Schwab is an enemy of all existence. His pawns in US government need to be terminated with extreme prejudice!!!
Now it will be an all hands on deck attempt by right wing media to blame democrats for not shielding Republicans from the responsibilities that come with having power, in return for nothingat all. If the messaging sticks then we will remain without a speaker until the 2024 election and all of the fallout from that will also be blamed on democrats as part of the Republicans 2024 campaign ads.
However, if the messaging doesn't stick then Republicans will try to nominate a "worse" speaker than Mccarthy, in a "look what you made me do" messaging strategy. The problem with this is there isn't a worse speaker than Mccarthy because what made Mccarthy bad was the fact that he was 100% untrustworthy, which makes him equally as untrustworthy as Jim Jordan, boebert, mtg, gosar... any of these could be speaker and the benefit to democrats and the American people would still be the same as it was under Mccarthy - which is to say zero.
It is not up to democrats to shield republican voters from the consequences of having republican leaders. It is up to republican voters to grow the f up and either start voting for only the Republicans who take their oaths and responsibilities seriously or, if there aren't any such to be found, just vote Democrat.
I don't know much about McHenry but I'm crossing my fingers he's, at least, effective unlike useless McCarthy.
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Some Republicans didn't like that McCarthy caved into some of the Democrats' demands when avoiding the government shutdown. Per new rules established just this past January (that's what helped McCarthy get enough votes to be named Speaker), only one Representative can call for an ouster vote, and that's what happened. Voting was mostly along party lines, with Republican Representatives basically getting rid of their leader.
Now, McHenry is Speaker pro tempore and will serve in that post until a new Speaker is voted in. Interestingly, McCarthy could be voted back in as Speaker. Until a new vote is held, McHenry (as pro tem) has most of the powers of a real Speaker.
The most rightwing faction of the Republican Party was dissatisfied with his speakership and moved to oust him. However, the overwhelming majority of Republicans still supported him. He was hoping the Democrats would come rescue him from the rightwing insurgency within his own party, but it’d make no sense for them to do so after he approved an impeachment inquiry into the president despite the fact that no congressional investigations have discovered any evidence of wrongdoing by Biden.
Essentially, far-right Republicans wanted him gone for allegedly not attacking the Democrats, while the Democrats wanted him gone for misusing an impeachment inquiry just to attack them, just to satisfy a petty need for revenge after Trump got impeached twice for crimes he actually committed.
Nobody knows what will happen next. It was an unfortunate turn of events that needed to be done. The House has the ability to influence the direction of the country by controlling the flow of money. McCarthy should have been more aggressive in reigning in spending and stopping the more crazy democrat policies.
The problem is that there is a standoff between the neoliberal/neoconservative Republicans of McCarthy’s ilk and the populist GOP base. There is a small chance that the handful of populist rebels will refuse to support any candidate approved by the GOP establishment. If that happens, they might even throw their votes to Hakeem Jeffries in protest. Imagine: a Democrat speaker with a Republican-majority House. Basically, it would cripple the chamber.
McCarthy caved and agreed to spend money we don't have without concessions. Thus making him an unfit leader.
This current breed of radical GOP members ("Freedom Caucus", yeah right) is nuttier than a fruit cake. What is that going to achieve for them?
More infighting among republicans you can be sure if that. Im enjoying the show personally hehe 🍿
Gary Palmer rnc alabama, seems to have good policy as well as MUCH experience in leadership and plenty of Congress experience since 2014. i hope they nominate him and he might be the best leader.
Some other Republican asshole/fascist/bigot will become speaker and the even bigger assholes/fascists/bigots of the so-called Freedom Caucus will immediately demand he start working on a bill to have salvery reinstituted.
Awesome. Thats what he gets for selling out the American people and cutting backroom deals with far leftists. Maybe now we can get a speaker with a spine.
The Dems will try and get Jeffries. The Rhinos will try to get someone else like McCarthy. The freedom caucus will want someone like Margery Taylor Green. Who knows who will be successful.
Even less work by our elected and well paid congress. Paralysis extremis.
They need to make that fucked up, lying ass Brazilian Congressman Santos the Speaker of the House.
My guess is they'll pick him as the next Speaker.
The Republican have NO unity at all!
Jim Jordan (JJ) 10:10
A war between republicans
They have to vote in a new one.
It seems like a stupid thing to do?
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