Scalise Bows Out of Speaker Race, Slams Reps. With 'Own Agendas'
Scalise Bows Out of Speaker Race, Slams Reps. With 'Own Agendas'
The move comes just a day after House Republicans voted to nominate him for the role in a closed-door meeting
Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he needed to secure the gavel.
ah yes, gaetz evoking the “special interests” boogeyman. Take a look in the mirror, you absolute cretin.
Yeah, but Gaetz's special interest is underage girls, and there's no official caucus for that so it doesn't count.
He was shacked up with an underaged boy for a while innit.
Yep, it's well known most of the caucus is into underage boys.
Guess we dodged the bullet of having an overt white supremacist as the Speaker of the House.
We’ll see what fresh horror the GOP tries to unleash on us next, I suppose.
fresh horror
Not sure I'd call Gym "fresh," but he is horrible.
A speakership shared between Boebert and MTG;
Lmao “shared”
They’re very definitely not friends these days.
So sure, put them in a cage match with the speaker’s gavel in the middle of the arena. People would watch that, and it’d be a damn sight more useful than what the House has done recently - definitely since Monday; arguably since January 3, 2023.
I guess comparing yourself to David Duke is its own baggage.
So now he can call himself "David Duke without votes".
Fkn clown show
The Republicans truly have no idea what to do or how to get their shit together now that the Democrats have finally said “Not my clown; not my circus.”
Turns out, when your party spends a lot of time and money courting self serving narcissistic voters, you end up with a lot of self serving narcissistic politicians.
- you were the whip, so this should be both unsurprising and also something you could deal with, and 2) you aren't owed votes. If you aren't offering anyone what they want, their job is technically to get stuff for their constituents. No goodies, no support. You don't get in just because.
