Next Speaker of the House? (5 Viewers)

[MT15]

There’s a lot of doubt that Kevin McCarthy will be able to get enough votes to become Speaker. It certainly won’t happen on the first ballot. Already Boboert and MTG are publicly at odds over it.

Maybe this is worth it’s own thread to watch. One person mentioned is Scalise.

 

[MT15]

I think this is accurate:

 

[MT15]

I am reading that one of the things McCarthy must commit to is to shut down the government rather than raise the debt ceiling. Didn’t I read that the debt ceiling must be raised or the US government will automatically default on its bonds or something similar? Does anyone else know for sure?

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Day 3... a seventh defeat for Kevin McCarthy.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Who voted for Trump in this round?

 

[coldseat]

Who voted for Trump in this round?

Gaetz

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Gaetz

That's what I assumed, thanks. Following the NYT live tracker and they have him listed as Other in this round.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

After all of those meetings, all of those concessions just last night alone, McCarthy has not picked up a single vote. At some point, you'd think someone would have the sense to tell McCarthy it's time to call it quits.

 

[coldseat]

That's what I assumed, thanks. Following the NYT live tracker and they have him listed as Other in this round.

This is from CNN.

Gaetz votes for Trump in House speakership election

A House speaker stalemate continues after GOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the necessary support in past rounds of voting. Follow for the latest live news updates.

www.cnn.com

 

[cuddlemonkey]

After all of those meetings, all of those concessions just last night alone, McCarthy has not picked up a single vote. At some point, you'd think someone would have the sense to tell McCarthy it's time to call it quits.

Grab your 5 most loyal supporters, get concessions from Jeffries, then throw your support behind him. This thing can be done on the next vote.

 

[CoolBrees]

Aaaaaand we have hit shirt show status!!!

We were hovering in dumpster fire until IRL Butthead (Where does Beavis hang out during session) voted for Drumpf. That is forking stupid.

Grab your 5 most loyal supporters, get concessions from Jeffries, then throw your support behind him. This thing can be done on the next vote.

won’t happen.

As much as I would love for this to be reality, those that capitulate would be lit on fire by their own party. Possibly literally speaking.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Aaaaaand we have hit shirt show status!!!

We were hovering in dumpster fire until IRL Butthead (Where does Beavis hang out during session) voted for Drumpf. That is forking stupid.


won’t happen.

As much as I would love for this to be reality, those that capitulate would be lit on fire by their own party. Possibly literally speaking.

A show I would absolutely love to see.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

won’t happen.

As much as I would love for this to be reality, those that capitulate would be lit on fire by their own party. Possibly literally speaking.

Yep. Any type of coalition government would send the current civil war in the Republican Party into nuclear status.

 

[superchuck500]

After all of those meetings, all of those concessions just last night alone, McCarthy has not picked up a single vote. At some point, you'd think someone would have the sense to tell McCarthy it's time to call it quits.

That would require both a sense of shame and duty - he has neither.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[CoolBrees]

I would amend what I said with a single caveat.

The only person that the Dems could support and draw concessions is Kevin McCarthy. That isn’t going to happen for a lot of reasons but it is the only scenario where there is cross aisle cooperation, and the GOP could sell it. The 20 would be ostracized to irrelevance. Again, won’t happen though

I like her a lot….

 

[samiam5211]

One of the questions on the naturalization test is: "Who is the speaker of the House?". It's been an interesting couple of days for people who give that exam.

 

[CoolBrees]

So there is a trick question on the naturalization test?

That’s messed up.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Kevin has lost an 8th vote.