Mid-Term Elections 2022. Hey Jack, I Was Right
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UPDATED: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 18:06
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Some of McCarthy’s allies tried to paint their failure to elect a speaker on the first ballot, which has not happened since 1923, as just another day in this great democracy of ours. Without a speaker, members-elect haven’t been sworn in. Without being sworn in as members, members-elect can’t vote on the rules to govern themselves. There are no rules. There is know nothing. Well, nothing except House Republicans at each other’s throats. The House, leaderless, free of rules, and without official members, oozed away in its primordial state and voted to adjourned.
Maybe House Republicans’ stalemate on the first order of business in the new Congress is all part of their plan. Because once they pick a speaker, they’ll have to attempt to govern.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/kevin-mccarthy-failed-spea
ker-vote-congress.html
The House is set to reconvene at noon to continue a historic floor fight — the first in a century — prompted by the Republican leader’s failure to secure a majority to become speaker.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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It looks as though when the Republicans resume today SECOND, they will try to adjourn right away and try again tomorrow. By today I mean 1/4.
Too funny...
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Originally posted by THG:
Next day, still no speaker of the house. That is because the republicans are controlled by about a dozen lunatics. People who cannot govern, people who only know how to destroy. What they are doing now is destroying themselves.
Too funny...
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No Ted.
What they're doing is what Democrats should be doing when they've got control of the house.
The Speakers from California on both sides have presided over the continued fall of our country.
Nancy Pelosi is a cunt. Kevin McCarthy is a cunt.
And right now... You are in agreement with Trump. He said 10 days ago that Republicans need to fall in line and vote for McCarthy.
So that's the 2nd time since Trump has been in office that I've disagreed with him (the other being to end Section 230).
And now you're on Trump's side.
Have a nice day.
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Republican who voted to impeach Trump entertaining pitching Democrats a deal to secure Speakership: report
On Thursday, The Detroit News reported that retired Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) is entertaining a plan to offer Democrats some degree of power sharing in the House in return for joining with a handful of GOP lawmakers to elect him Speaker of the House, in the event that Republicans fail to solve their gridlock in trying to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
According to the report, one possible offer Upton could make Democrats is an equal number of seats on House committees.
A gang of far-right Republicans has blocked McCarthy from the 218 votes he needs to be elected Speaker, leading to three failed ballots on Tuesday when the new Congress met for the first time — something that has not happened since 1923. These Republicans have demanded a number of changes to House rules that would give them more power over the caucus — which McCarthy has partially complied with, to no avail in reaching a deal with the holdouts.
So far, Democrats have been unanimous in nominating their own newly chosen House Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). If all Democrats voted together on a compromise Upton candidacy, six Republicans would have to join them. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) previously floated a bipartisan Upton candidacy as a possibility if McCarthy cannot secure the votes, but it is unclear whether five other Republicans would join him, or whether Democrats would be willing to accept the deal at all.
Upton, a longtime relative moderate Republican who retired at the end of last session, was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Only two of those lawmakers, Reps. David Valadao (R-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA), are in office, as the others either retired or were defeated in their primary with Trump-backed challengers.
Trump himself is still backing McCarthy for Speaker. Last night, he appeared to step back from his endorsement, but reasserted it this morning with a post on his Truth Social platform.
https://www.rawstory.com/fred-upton/
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Republicans need to ditch McCarthy.
It's too late for him. He needs to stand down. Even if he got it now he's been cut off at the knees.
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At the very least, the house will revert back to Democrat control in 2024 because Republicans will be dealing with a much tougher election. This is based on the house races scheduled to take place in 2024. Then there will also be push back on them for letting the nuts loose with committee appointments in 2023.
tick tock
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My prediction is that the Democrats will control the house before 2024. Why, what makes me think that? There were 16 in congress in 2020 that did not make it until 2022. Death, problems with the law and so on. I'm just not sure when it will happen.
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Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert said she wants a “single-member motion to vacate.” Such a motion would mean that any member of the House, at any time, could call a new Speaker election. In other words: The Speakership would be held hostage by whichever congressperson was feeling craziest that day. McCarthy has already agreed to a five-member threshold for a motion to vacate, which means that five members can get together and throw sand in the gears whenever they want. Not exactly a recipe for legislative success.
Republicans have spent a lot of time discussing the motion to vacate the chair, which is the mechanism for ousting the speaker.
https://rollcall.com/2023/01/02/mccarthy-releases-house-rules-package-
still-short-speaker-votes/
Video: Lauren Boebert wanted a single member motion to vacate
https://twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1610315784882114560
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Originally posted by THG:
At the very least, the house will revert back to Democrat control in 2024 because Republicans will be dealing with a much tougher election. This is based on the house races scheduled to take place in 2024. Then there will also be push back on them for letting the nuts loose with committee appointments in 2023.
tick tock
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Maybe. 2 years is a long way away.
But the fact is that 70% of Democrat Senate seats are up for reelection while hardly any Republican seats are.
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House Is Paralyzed Without a Speaker — Creating National Security Risks and a Shadow Shutdown
Right now, members of Congress are unable even to view classified documents.
Imagine a future speakership fight with even more disturbing consequences — if a dispute like this were to occur during a year in which Congress is charged with certifying a presidential election.
https://www.thebulwark.com/house-is-paralyzed-without-a-speaker-creati
ng-national-security-risks-and-a-shadow-shutdown/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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