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StumblyWumbly posted:A few folks have been saying that since the Senate doesn't need a Speaker until the 23rd, neither does the House. FYI the senate doesn’t have a speaker. The senate has a presiding officer prior to electing one in the form of the Vice President, who is ex officio President of the United States Senate. Moreover, the Senate elected Party Murray President Pro Tempore on Tuesday without incident, before adjourning for three weeks.
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Uglycat posted:Hypothetically, if there were a foreign influence seeking to usurp the GOP and use that power to weaken the US federal govt (rather than actually enact conservative policies)... Not really the only thing the House is going to do is do theatrical investigations.
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Piell posted:Now doing vote 5 Just like me and this thread
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Piell posted:Now doing vote 5 I figured they would go for a vote to adjourn. I'm really surprised they are going right away for round 5. And this guy is highlighting the fact that the R's don't trust each other? Not a great look.
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Can we turn this into a drinking game? Every time someone votes with a sentence instead of just the name, take a drink Every time a Republican votes against McCarthy, take a drink Every time the camera cuts to McCarthy, take a drink Every time McCarthy loses the vote, finish your drink
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Old James posted:Can we turn this into a drinking game? Some of us have to work this week
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i wonder how many reps have nomination speeches prepared. is there someone like 25th in line for this
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Oh good, a Bobbert speech
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Old James posted:Can we turn this into a drinking game? You'll end up drunker than Boehner playing this game
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Aguilar using each of these speeches to focus on one part of the Dem platform is smart imo
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Old James posted:Can we turn this into a drinking game? You trying to kill us?
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Old James posted:Can we turn this into a drinking game? I knew I should've opened that wholesale account with my liquor store.
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Youth Decay posted:Well we haven't actually had the election yet either. It'll be Jennifer McLellan though. Oh whoops! I thought the election already happened but I was thinking the primary
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lol at Boebert saying Biden should tell McCarthy to go away.
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The clerk giving Bobbert a y'good?
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The Lord of Hats posted:lol at Boebert saying Biden should tell McCarthy to go away. I didn't have CSPAN on, please someone tell me there's a transcript of this available.
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I can't wait for whoever they have come up to nominate the counter nominee for the sixth vote to just sit there and rip into McCarthy for 10 more minutes while everyone has to sit there and watch. This is becoming the best part of my day.
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The Lord of Hats posted:lol at Boebert saying Biden should tell McCarthy to go away. She was referring to Trump, not Biden, and there were literally gasps in the room when she said trump got it wrong https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1610711782233980941
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Another Representative just missed the first roll call. Last vote the Republican who voted present also missed the first roll call to dramatically say "present" at the very end in the second roll call. Edit: And another missed call.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I didn't have CSPAN on, please someone tell me there's a transcript of this available. She said something to the effect of "My favorite president needs to call McCarthy and tell him he doesn't have the vote." E: maybe I mixed up the parts of such a well crafted speech.
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The Lord of Hats posted:lol at Boebert saying Biden should tell McCarthy to go away. Joe shows no mercy on these fools https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1610671997171671040
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Shooting Blanks posted:I didn't have CSPAN on, please someone tell me there's a transcript of this available. She was talking about Trump pressuring the Freedom Caucus to knock it off, but called him the "Greatest President" or "My Favorite President" instead. And then said he should instead tell McCarthy to step down because he's never going to be Speaker.
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And I thought election night was a hilarious shitshow of republicans tearing themselves apart. They've lost complete control of their electoral base and their own party! Everybody says the republicans are the ones who always fall into lockstep when it comes to voting and look at where it's gotten them!
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Sounds like that phone call with Trump went very well
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And another missed call. And another one. Fifth vote for Donalds, McCarthy loses again. I really appreciate that you only need to get to the letter "C" to know whether McCarthy becomes Speaker or not.
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cr0y posted:Sounds like that phone call with Trump went very well It was a Perfect Phone Call
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cr0y posted:Sounds like that phone call with Trump went very well Pretty strong sign that his grasp on the party is broken. He'll still have his loyal voters, but he doesn't scare the rest of the party anymore.
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And now we're heading towards vote six. This is a farce at this point
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lol was there some weird mix up there where a Rep wanted to vote Donalds but their vote got marked for Jeffries?
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By the end of this I'm going to have all the Congresspeople's last names memorized.
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For those watching at home, the chaos caucus is Biggs R-AZ Bishop R-NC Boebert R-CO, Brecheen R-OK Cloud R-TX Clyde R-GA Crane R-AZ Donalds R-FL Gaetz R-FL Good R-VA Gosar R-AZ Harris R-MD Luna R-FL Miller R-IL Norman R-SC Ogles R-TN Perry R-PA Rosendale R-MT Roy R-TX Self R-TX
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I'm starting to believe that there's a nonzero chance that Republicans start going from McCarthy to Present, to signal that they're open to negotiations, but they gently caress up and too many of them do it at once and Jeffries winds up Speaker.
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For pure comedy potential, Self should nominate himself for Speaker of the House.
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