House Speaker Vote Live 2nd Thread

[cato potatoe]

Dan Bishop not present.

He's guarding the ladies room.

[deb]

Hern is building momentum.

He’d be an acceptable alternative to McCarthy.

[Mesaclone]

Jordan Schachtel tweeted this out earlier. Perhaps one of these “rebels”.


Liberty Scores of anti-McCarthy GOP rebels:
Andy Biggs 100
Dan Bishop 100
Lauren Boebert 100
M Cloud 91
A Clyde 91
Byron Donalds 100
Matt Gaetz 84
Bob Good 100
Paul Gosar 100
A Harris 84
Mary Miller 95
R Norman 92
S Perry 86
Matt Rosendale 100
Chip Roy 100

Great. Put them on a ballot in the caucus and see how many votes they get compared to McCarthy.

Oh…wait.  That already happened and they were crushed with McCarthy winning the caucus in a landslide.

Huh.

[catfish1957]

We could really put a dent in the Federal Debt if we could sell tickets and Pay per view of seeing McCarthy and his furniture leaving the Speaker's Office.

[240B]

If Hakeem Jefferies becomes Speaker, I will be blaming the person with the ego too big to step aside for a single vote.  The guy that refused some easy concessions to Conservatives again and again and again.

MCCARTHY could end this TODAY. McCarthy is the person dragging this out. McCarthy is to blame. Whatever the reason he cannot be elected, whatever it is, McCarthy could end this NOW by stepping aside. But McCarthy refuses to do that.

McCarthy is willing to take the Republican Party and America down with him. McCarthy is saying, "If I cannot be speaker, then nobody will be speaker. I will just blow the whole thing up!"

[Hoodat]

Oh…wait.  That already happened and they were crushed with McCarthy winning the caucus in a landslide.

Huh.

Then what is the problem?  If McCarthy can't even close a deal with Republicans, then how is he going to be able to run the House?

[Mesaclone]

Hern is building momentum.

Has he hit 200 votes yet?

[Kamaji]

How many have now left the floor?

[Hoodat]

We could really put a dent in the Federal Debt if we could sell tickets and Pay per view of seeing McCarthy and his furniture leaving the Speaker's Office.

I'd pay to see that.

[Hoodat]

Has he hit 200 votes yet?

Not as long as the jackbooted threat of getting no committee assignments is in play.

[Mesaclone]

Then what is the problem?  If McCarthy can't even close a deal with Republicans, then how is he going to be able to run the House?

He’s far closer than anyone else towards closing the deal…has someone else gotten more than 20 votes? Much less 200. So it seems none of these 22 idiots can close a deal either.

[oldno7]

Great. Put them on a ballot in the caucus and see how many votes they get compared to McCarthy.

Oh…wait. That already happened and they were crushed with McCarthy winning the caucus in a landslide.

Huh.

They were/are crushed by a system based on entitlement, nothing more.

[catfish1957]

Not as long as the jackbooted threat of getting no committee assignments is in play.

Bingo... 

Take that off the table watch the numbers.

[Kamaji]

So just exactly what deal(s) has McCarthy worked out with the 200 who consistently keep voting for him?  Promises made and threats implied?  And could McCarthy fulfill any of it if he doesn't ultimately end up being Speaker?

[Hoodat]

He’s far closer than anyone else towards closing the deal…has someone else gotten more than 20 votes?

'Close' only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.

[Mesaclone]

They were/are crushed by a system based on entitlement, nothing more.

They were crushed by the votes of 200 of their colleagues.

[Kamaji]

Not as long as the jackbooted threat of getting no committee assignments is in play.

That's an empty threat at this point, unless it's been made "clear" that McCarthy has a deal in the works with the democrats that will get him the Speakership notwithstanding any defections from the 200.

[corbe]

[Mesaclone]

'Close' only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.

The 22 clowns can’t even get near that number….so if 200 don’t count, 22 is just plain embarrassing.

[Free Vulcan]

He’s far closer than anyone else towards closing the deal…has someone else gotten more than 20 votes? Much less 200. So it seems none of these 22 idiots can close a deal either.

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

Again, false dichotomy.

[Hoodat]

The 22 clowns can’t even get near that number….so if 200 don’t count, 22 is just plain embarrassing.

They only need 5 to block McCarthy.  They have four times that number.  They have a ten-round win streak.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

MCCARTHY could end this TODAY. McCarthy is the person dragging this out. McCarthy is to blame. Whatever the reason he cannot be elected, whatever it is, McCarthy could end this NOW by stepping aside. But McCarthy refuses to do that.

McCarthy is willing to take the Republican Party and America down with him. McCarthy is saying, "If I cannot be speaker, then nobody will be speaker. I will just blow the whole thing up!"

Actually, that wouldn't necessarily end it NOW. You'd still have to find someone who could get to 218, which might be kind of tough considering the hard feelings on both sides.  The 200 may only agree to someone else if the 20 drop ALL of their other demands.

Of course, the thing that would end it NOW  for certain would be to elect McCarthy. 

[oldno7]

The 22 clowns can’t even get near that number….so if 200 don’t count, 22 is just plain embarrassing.Constitutional

Fixed, I think.

[Cyber Liberty]

I know dang well. And then folks wonder why he's not sufficient. 

If not now, when?

This is an "unexpected opportunity."  If God ever pointed to "the opportunity," it's now.  This is the hill to die on.

[deb]

Fixed, I think.

One person’s clown is another person’s patriot.