It’s a dream scenario for Santos, took the attention off of him and gave him something with a tiny bit of value (his vote).
She seems nice
Backing out of my McCarthy no shares for a $10 loss. Not as confident as I was earlier that it won’t end up being him.
The GOP normies will be fine with some non-McCarthy choice that gives the Freedom Caucus a win.
Fuck this guy
https://twitter.com/olivia_beavers/status/1610748231041916928?s=46&t=CG9sWepBOp9lcO58ED778A
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I think so too, but I’m not confident enough to risk the 800 bucks on it.
The reason the Speaker is so valuable is the rules have traditionally given the Speaker a lot of power. However, the next order of business will be to approve a rules package, which can be whatever they want. A power sharing arrangement could be the basis of a McCarthy-D compromise. The Senate has struck a similar bargain in the past.
Im not as automatically opposed. I dont think Dems should be floating this yet, particularly individual reps, but his conditions arent that far off base. Debt ceiling and neutering judiciary probably the priorities along with some favorable committee splits.
Figured the GOP would be more unified than the Dems. This is sad.
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Snaps fingers So close
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McCaul, you should double dog dare those freedom fries not to vote for someone else. I bet you will have a lot of luck in a plurality vote. What could go wrong?
We will fight them on the beaches… and in the Speaker’s office!
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1610774223751974913?s=20&t=5fZTx0bFUWCDuwr7Vgs7Sg
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This is the best analysis of the broader background context of the fight that I’ve seen.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-real-gop-steps-forward/sharetoken/QUDH7ep1Nt84
(free link to “member’s only” article")
From 2011 onward the factions of the GOP were in a tacit alliance. The party’s mainstream wing remained in nominal control through leaders including John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy. But, in fact, the conference was run by what became the Freedom Caucus. It was a functional equilibrium. The Freedom Caucus couldn’t govern in its own name. And the Boehner types couldn’t run the House without accepting the Freedom Caucus’s dictates. This is often described as the origins of a Republican civil war. But that’s not quite right. It was a functional if acrimonious division of labor. Rather than a “civil war” a better metaphor came from Will Saletan, who called the GOP a failed state which found its warlord in Donald Trump.
Trump’s great insight — certainly instinctive more than analytic — was that double act and subterfuge were unnecessary. You simply tear off the scab and run the GOP — openly — from the Freedom Caucus. That is what the Trump presidency was. It’s no accident that his top allies on the Hill and numerous key members of his administration came from the House Freedom Caucus.
Donald Trump revealed more than he changed. During the Obama years, most D.C. conventional wisdom treated the House radicals as crazies who were loud but basically marginal to the GOP. That wasn’t real politics. That was grandstanding and performative nonsense. But, in fact, that was the Republican Party. That was who ran it. And when a presidential candidate emerged ready to run openly on their platform, he won hands down.
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“We Might Surrender” needs to be trademarked by The Democrats immediately.
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Looks like it’s a done deal. /s
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1610755473640198157?s=20&t=-rRn6YCepVBDUqVF0bsHyA
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Mike Pence thinking he is relevant is truly one of the funniest things ever.
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