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01-06-2023, 8:39am | #81 | ||||||
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Twelve times a charm? |
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01-06-2023, 10:14am | #82 | ||||||
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Pubs are really trying hard to fk this up and it will be the one thing they'll succeed at doing.
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Update: Capitol Police take victory lap by arresting mother of woman they murdered two years ago. Spiking the ball, I guess.
And then there were 7: https://patriots.win/p/16ZqdWNT3S/x/c/4TojSTZIO9c Quote:
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And then there were 6.....
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Well, they are making some serious financial concessions, or the sex is good.
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McCarthy will be the speaker.
The good news is, he has made concessions and he has moved his position to accommodate the non swamp patriots. Victor David Hanson unpacked this whole thing very eloquently. |
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01-06-2023, 4:51pm | #89 | ||||||
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An interesting look at the vote progressions.
If the six remaining have gotten all of their demands met, but are still unwilling to support McCarthy, I'm not sure what else can be done to sway their vote. The members not shown have cast every vote for McCarthy. |
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The January Six:
Hold the line, patriots! No surrender. |
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Boebert said they presented McCarthy with a list of demands in December if he wanted them to make him speaker. I don't remember the entire list, but a few stood out in my mind:
1 = Each earmark must get its own separate up or down vote. No more package deals and omnibus bills. 2 = Any member can propose an amendment to any bill that is brought to the floor if that Amendment will result in spending less money. 3 = Every bill that is passed in committee gets a floor vote. No longer could the speaker independently control what was and wasn't allowed to be voted on. 4 = Any member can call for a no-confidence vote to determine if they need a new speaker should they lose confidence in the speaker to remain faithful to the Constitution. This was a real thing, though rarely used, until Pelosi deleted it from the House rules. The Freedom Caucus wanted it restored in case McCarthy decided to later renege on the deal that made him speaker. There were more things on the list, but I can't remember them all. Anyway, McCarthy agreed to the list very grudgingly in December and everyone went home for Christmas thinking he'd be speaker in January. However, on the first day they all met in January to vote, McCarthy laughed off his deal and refused to abide by it. Politicians suck, and he has a history. TALENT Act of 2017 was signed by Obama the hour before he left office and was introduced by Kevin McCarthy |
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McCarthy speaker of the 118th.
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Maybe he will only last a month or so before being tossed on his ear. He is a lying piece of Shit. The House doesn't need an egotistical speaker like him.
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Would have been better off having NO Speaker, or just getting the destruction over with and electing Jeffries. I appreciate the holdouts, but damn, even they folded. I remember decades ago I was on a jury trial, half of us thought the guy was innocent, half guilty. I hated my job, was getting paid anyway by my job to be there. I told the guilty contingent, 'I have as long as you want. I'm willing to sit in this room 8 hours a day, in perpetuity, and we can all just sit here. Days? Weeks? Months? How much of your life are you willing to spend on this, because I'm willing to spend MUCH, MUCH longer than you are, and I can afford to outlast you.' We found the guy innocent and everybody went home. It's a shame we have NO one in the House with that level of fortitude. And I'm a nobody. FWIW, the guy was technically guilty. We jury nullified the verdict. |
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The conservative caucus did get McCarthy to move on many of his positions. Matt Gaetz (my rep) voted present. |
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OK, so what? They had the votes to keep a Speaker from being elected, without R's suiciding and voting for Jeffries. They should have just done that. I know how that feels. I would be willing to go sit in Congress every day for the next two years and simply vote against McCarthy out of spite. Another Klaus Schwab toadie at the helm? Um, no. |
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FWIW, jury nullification has a long, celebrated history in common law. Here in the US, juries used it to find people charged with helping escaped slaves, not guilty. That pissed off Democrats of the day, so they started clamping down on it. But it doesn't change anything. As a juror, you are the finder of not only the fact, but the law, and if you find the law is unconstitutional, or morally repugnant, or just simply wrong, or wrongly applied in your particular case....well, that's the power you as the juror have. It's the most power a random citizen not in government will ever have. Use it wisely. See that the right thing is done. |
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Somebody mad, bro...
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Only took 15 votes Kevin McCarthy elected.
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