House Speaker Vote Live 2nd Thread

[Mesaclone]

Prediction:
This thing is over within 48 hours with McCarthy elected as Speaker.

[240B]

Prediction:
This thing is over within 48 hours with McCarthy elected as Speaker.

No

[Sighlass]

Prediction:
This thing is over within 48 hours with McCarthy elected as Speaker.

Just along for the ride, don't have a clue beyond who is the Rino in your sentence.

[EdinVA]

Prediction:
This thing is over within 48 hours with McCarthy elected as Speaker.

Maybe.  I just hope this was a real fight and the house holds the socialist/rino's feet to the fire and if mccarthy steps out of line, he needs to be "stomped"...

[Kamaji]

So, did they finally adjourn for the night, or are they still at it?

[240B]

McRomney can do whatever he wants. They will not vote until he is gone.

[240B]

[deb]

Two peas in a pod?

[catfish1957]

https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/deal-reached-for-gop-reps-to-back-mccarthy-for-house-speaker/amp/

“Anti-McCarthy Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and pro-McCarthy Rep. Patrick McHenry reportedly negotiated the truce, according to the news outlet.”

You must have watched different outlets.  So called "truces" will still lkely leave McCarthy well short of picking off 15 of the 20 Rebels.

Something else might have happened during the night we are not privy to yet, but until.....   Don't equate a truce with a McCarthy Speakership victory

From your same article (left conveniently off by you)

"A source close to McCarthy reportedly confirmed to Reuters that a deal is on the table, but that it won’t put him over the vote threshold needed to be elected speaker of the House."

[catfish1957]

Two peas in a pod?

Both Slick and Sleazy Used Car Salesmen

[oldno7]

The next speaker will either be McCarthy, or someone the Dems chose. That's it.

How dumb can anyone be to give that power to the Left...and its precisely why these clowns are called the 22 morons.

Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech

[catfish1957]

Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech

Exactly...

If there is going to be any power being ceded to the left its going to be by McCarthy, not the 20 Patriots.

[Kamaji]

When does the circus get started up again today?

[Wingnut]

Two hairy-headed gents who run amok in the US
Lately, ones been overheard in Dee Cee.

[catfish1957]

When does the circus get started up again today?

Kevin Can F__k Himself : Distict of Columbia Style....

Season 1 Episode 4-  Today at Noon , Eastern Time

Plot Synopsis-

Today's episode finds Kevin in a desperate mode of trying to find Office Furniture Movers before the 20 Boogy Men throw his stuff out onto  Constitution Avenue.  The situation is aggravated by the sad fact that Kevin is having a tough time finding a testicular transplant donor. 
Everything seems to be improving on the House floor, until pandimonium rings out after an insane Mad Max is caught urinating on the House Podium Rug. 

Episode comes to dramatic conclusion and cliff hanger, when Dan Crenshaw's eyepatch gets mysteriously stuck on Kevin McCarthy's fly.

[Wingnut]

Kevin Can F__k Himself : Distict of Columbia Style....

Season 1 Episode 4-  Today at Noon , Eastern Time



Episode comes to dramatic conclusion and cliff hanger, when Dan Crenshaw's eyepatch gets mysteriously stuck on Kevin McCarthy's fly.

LOL!    It could happen!

[mystery-ak]

Gaetz: If Democrats Join Up with GOP to Elect a Moderate Republican House Speaker, I Will Resign

Thursday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said a coalition of Republicans and Democrats electing a moderate Republican was not a concern.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/05/gaetz-if-democrats-join-up-with-gop-to-elect-a-moderate-republican-house-speaker-i-will-resign/

[mystery-ak]

 Democrat Mary Peltola open to forming coalition majority with Republicans
by Jared Gans - 01/05/23 4:29 PM ET

Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola (Alaska) said Thursday she is open to forming a coalition majority with Republicans as the House plows through its third day of failing to elect a Speaker. 

Liz Ruskin, a D.C. correspondent for Alaska Public Media, tweeted that Peltola said that she supports House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) for the Speakership, but she is open to discussion if House members want to form a coalition majority, as often happens in Alaska. 

“Anything that gets us communicating with each other rather than talking at each other would be a good thing at this point,” she said. 

The House has now failed to choose a Speaker through eight ballots. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) has received more than 200 votes on each of the ballots, but 20 Republicans opposed to him have voted for other candidates, denying him victory. 

Without a Speaker, the House is unable to conduct any additional business, including passing rules, swearing in members and considering legislation. 

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3801155-democrat-mary-peltola-open-to-forming-coalition-majority-with-republicans/

[mystery-ak]

Desperate deal: Centrist Republicans may join Democrats to end speakership nightmare
by Samantha-Jo Roth, Congressional Reporter |
January 06, 2023 06:35 AM

Desperate Republicans could cut a deal with Democrats to chose a centrist speaker and break the stalemate that has paralyzed the House, according to a supporter of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

After GOP divisions led to successive failed ballots for speaker, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said centrist Republicans could be “willing to consider working with Democrats at some point” if the stalemate continues, although other Republicans say that idea is off the table.

There’s been talk about what would be a nightmare scenario for the band of conservatives who continue to reject McCarthy's bid for speaker. That potential outcome still seems a long way off, but fatigue is beginning to set in after negotiations have failed to produce a breakthrough.

Bacon, who represents a district won by President Joe Biden, has consistently voted for McCarthy over 11 failed ballots. However, he has publicly floated the idea of working with Democrats on a consensus pick if Republican holdouts continue to be unwilling to compromise.

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/could-the-house-agree-to-a-unity-candidate-for-speaker

[Wingnut]

Without a Speaker, the House is unable to conduct any additional business, including passing rules, swearing in members and considering legislation.

Like that is a bad thing!

[catfish1957]

Gaetz: If Democrats Join Up with GOP to Elect a Moderate Republican House Speaker, I Will Resign

Thursday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said a coalition of Republicans and Democrats electing a moderate Republican was not a concern.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/05/gaetz-if-democrats-join-up-with-gop-to-elect-a-moderate-republican-house-speaker-i-will-resign/

If the dim olive branch is accepted by McCarthy to put him over the finish line?

I think a lot of us, will no longer identify oursleves as Republicans. 

Hate to admit it, but @roamer_1 may have been right all along.

[corbe]

   With Buck (R, CO) out most of the day for medical treatment the magic number McCarthy will need is 217.

[Kamaji]

Gaetz: If Democrats Join Up with GOP to Elect a Moderate Republican House Speaker, I Will Resign

Thursday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said a coalition of Republicans and Democrats electing a moderate Republican was not a concern.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/05/gaetz-if-democrats-join-up-with-gop-to-elect-a-moderate-republican-house-speaker-i-will-resign/

"If I don't get my way, I'm taking my ball and going home."  To whom is that a threat, other than to the constituents who elected him to represent them in Congress?

[Bigun]

Desperate deal: Centrist Republicans may join Democrats to end speakership nightmare

I told everyone here that this was a likely outcome weeks ago.

[mystery-ak]

 January 5, 2023 9:15pm EST
Rep.-elect Maxine Waters appears to get in shouting match with Republicans on House floor
Rep.-elect Matt Rosendale, R-Mt., named Waters during a speech

By Paul Best | Fox News

Rep.-elect Maxine Waters, D-Calif., appeared to get in a shouting match with Republicans on the House floor during the ninth round of voting to elect a speaker on Thursday. 

"This is my 9th vote for Hakeem Jefferies," Waters stood up and said when it was her turn to vote before turning and pointing to a group of Republicans behind her. "Matt Rosendale, get it together." 

Waters continued speaking but was drowned out by several Republicans shouting, "Order!" 

About an hour before the exchange, Rep.-elect Matt Rosendale, R-Mt., named Waters while speaking on the floor. 

"Last summer we began to negotiate, a group of us in good faith, a list of changes, amendments, to the rules of this body. Not to empower ourselves, not to bring personal benefit to ourselves, but to empower you and you and you, Maxine, and you, and you, and everyone sitting in this chamber equally," Rosendale said before 

"There’s no rules, I did not use anyone’s name… Excuse me, Maxine."

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-elect-maxine-waters-appears-shouting-match-republicans-house-floor