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Matt "I like 'em young" Gaetz gets his wish and the U.S. House now has no leader
Gaetz, who is under investigation by both the FBI and a House committee, carried out his threat to file a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives today and the Democrats backed the Republicans who wanted him out, resulting in Kev getting punted on a 216-210 vote with eight Republicans joining the Dems to oust him.
This is going to be interesting. It took a very unusual fifteen rounds to get Kev elected Speaker, and he had to make a lot of compromises to the hard-core fringe of his party. One of those compromises is what cost him his gavel - the ability for ANYONE to call for his removal. No one knows who will be the next Speaker, it'll certainly not be Gaetz. The Speaker is #2 in line to replace the President should he be incapacitated or otherwise removed from office and something were to happen to the Veep. It is entirely possible that the Democratic Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, could become Leader with only a few Republicans getting tired of the fringe of their party jerking the House around.
Thus far, this is THE WORST House for passing legislation. Despite all the posturing, they are not passing bills. Which happens to be their job.
And they have fewer than 45 days until they must get a budget or continuing funding bill passed or the government will shut down and the possibility of the nation's credit rating taking yet another ding happens.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kevin-mccarthy-voted-out-house-speaker-1234838540/
This is going to be interesting. It took a very unusual fifteen rounds to get Kev elected Speaker, and he had to make a lot of compromises to the hard-core fringe of his party. One of those compromises is what cost him his gavel - the ability for ANYONE to call for his removal. No one knows who will be the next Speaker, it'll certainly not be Gaetz. The Speaker is #2 in line to replace the President should he be incapacitated or otherwise removed from office and something were to happen to the Veep. It is entirely possible that the Democratic Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, could become Leader with only a few Republicans getting tired of the fringe of their party jerking the House around.
Thus far, this is THE WORST House for passing legislation. Despite all the posturing, they are not passing bills. Which happens to be their job.
And they have fewer than 45 days until they must get a budget or continuing funding bill passed or the government will shut down and the possibility of the nation's credit rating taking yet another ding happens.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kevin-mccarthy-voted-out-house-speaker-1234838540/
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I don't know if they're smart enough to realize how much trouble they could potentially cause right now.
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'Burn it down' definitely plays well with a certain percentage of their base, though I don't know if they realize how small in terms of total numbers that number is.
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I think the mid-term elections will be quite telling.
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Some of his trials will definitely resolve by then. All of them? That I don't know.
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Hugs, Jon
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I don't know if the House rules are revised on the election of a Speaker or when a new session of Congress convenes, I would suspect the latter, but I would also think that they are subject to revision. Dunno.
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Quite possible. Pretty much guaranteed that the R's will have a tough time getting a majority behind one of their own, as fractured as they are.
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Even when they weren't broken, they couldn't do much more then preen and launch investigations that weren't able to produce the findings that they were determined were out there.
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True dat. What's that phrase the Brit's like? Couldn't organize a pisser in a brewery?