45 Republicans call for House rules overhaul after McCarthy ouster: 'Ashamed and embarrassed'

[Maj. Bill Martin]

This gives a bit of insight into the reaction by some within the caucus to the Motion to Vacate.  I bolded some language I thought was telling.

45 Republicans call for House rules overhaul after McCarthy ouster: 'Ashamed and embarrassed'

A group of nearly four dozen House Republicans is demanding a dramatic overhaul to the chamber rules after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster.

"The injustice we all witnessed cannot go unaddressed — lest we bear responsibility for the consequences that follow. Our Conference must address fundamental changes to the structure of our majority to ensure success for the American people," 45 House GOP lawmakers said in a letter to colleagues on Thursday....

The lawmakers said they were "ashamed and embarrassed" by the episode, according to the letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Earlier this week, eight Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives joined in an alliance with 208 Democrats to adopt a motion to vacate the Speaker of the House," they wrote.

"That translates to less than 4 percent of our Republican Conference joining with all Democrats to override the will of the remaining 96 percent of House Republicans on one of the most consequential votes the House has taken in over a century."

They lauded McCarthy as "one of the most accomplished speakers in modern history."

"Ashamed and embarrassed by what happened on the Floor this week, we refuse to allow the eight members who abandoned and undermined our Conference to dictate every outcome in policy and personnel for the remainder of this Congress, including the upcoming selection of the Speaker of the House," the letter said....

"...We cannot allow our majority to be dictated to by the alliance between the chaos caucus and the minority party that will do nothing more than guarantee the failure of our next Speaker," it continued.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/45-republicans-call-house-rules-overhaul-mccarthy-ouster-ashamed-embarrassed.

To me, this means "there is no way we are going to agree to let the eight get want they wanted out of this."  Could make it very difficult to find a middle ground to elect a Speaker.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Why don't these whiny jackasses pull themselves together, choose another Speaker and get the hell back to work ---- this time for the American people and not the Uniparty.

[Right_in_Virginia]

DC_Draino
@DC_Draino

Once MAGA pursued the strategy of the Vice President sending back electoral college results tainted with fraud to state legislatures for further review, the Uniparty changed the Electoral Count Act to remove that power

Once MAGA used the 1-Rep Motion to Vacate McCarthy, the Uniparty said we should no longer have that power

There is a clear pattern here

Any democratic procedure used by the People to fight back against the Uniparty gets eliminated

The fact that Mitch McConnell and Hillary Clinton now want the Motion to Vacate removed means we should never, ever relinquish it

Let them scream as the swamp drains around them

We the People are taking back DC


12:08 PM · Oct 6, 2023

[Right_in_Virginia]

DC_Draino
@DC_Draino

The 1-Rep Motion to Vacate has been around since 1837

The only time that was changed was when Nancy Pelosi raised the threshold and impeached Trump twice

The Patriot 20 reinstituted this centuries-old mechanism when they forced Kevin McCarthy to go 15 rounds in January

Do NOT give up the People’s ability to change leadership midstream no matter who is chosen as Speaker


11:53 AM · Oct 6, 2023

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The motion was first used in 1910, when the Republican speaker Joseph Cannon put forward the motion himself to force detractors in his own party to decide whether they supported him or not, according to the House Archives. The motion failed.

In 1997 the Republican speaker Newt Gingrich was threatened with a motion to vacate. Although he managed to tamp down resistance and avoid an actual resolution being filed, he resigned in 1998 after disappointing results in the midterm elections that year.

In 2015 Republican representative Mark Meadows filed a motion to vacate against the Republican speaker John Boehner. It did not come to a vote, but Boehner resigned a few months later, citing the challenges of managing a burgeoning hardline conservative faction of his party.

McCarthy has become the first House speaker in US history to have been removed from office.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/03/what-is-motion-to-vacate-speaker-mccarthy-explainer#:~:text=Has%20the%20motion%20to%20vacate,according%20to%20the%20House%20Archives.

[Free Vulcan]

Why don't these whiny jackasses pull themselves together, choose another Speaker and get the hell back to work ---- this time for the American people and not the Uniparty.

On that we agree. When they get their people in, we must all fall in line and move on, but when they lose it's this crap.

Giddy up and get back to work.