• neptune@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    Any republican with decency would force McCarthy out, vote for Jeffries for speaker, fund the government for at least a year, and then try to return to some level of normalcy.

    McCarthy isn’t the “speaker” he’s a puppet for a fanatical minority, and the rest of his caucus hides in shame or fear.

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      1 year ago

      “republican with decency” is an oxymoron.

      There’s nothing left in the GOP other than fanatical lunacy at this point. Nothing. At all.

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        Don’t kid yourself, behind all the mindless lunatics are plenty of deceitful scheming planners doing their best to focus all the fanatics on the “right” targets.

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      He’s not capable of doing the job because he has no backbone. He needs to control the narrative, and if he can’t, he should quit.

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        The job, Republican Speaker of the House, is impossible. Boehner couldn’t do it, Ryan couldn’t do it, and no one other than McCarthy even wanted the job because the Republican Party isn’t really a political party, with a set of political beliefs that unify them, it’s just an organization made up of loosely affiliated smaller groups of grifters all running their own scams.

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      No Republican would vote for Jeffries for speaker. But I bet if there were another snap election, a moderate Republican could court some Democratic votes and win a consensus vote for Speaker.

      It would render the Freedom Caucus irrelevant for as long as that centrist coalition could hold.

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        There are no real moderate Republicans. Anyone sane got booted from the party for not falling in line with Trump.

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          There are a few left, they were elected in competitive districts and while there aren’t that many of them, their election enabled Kevin to gain his majority, and they simply can’t win there spouting this MAGA stuff. So they might be convinced to nominate one of their own, particularly if the only alternative is a Freedom Caucus nutter.