MTG left stranded because her boo-boo went bye-bye.

what were the contents of the spending bill? i know matt was citing unnecessary funding of ukraine as part of the reason for wanting it shot down (but apparently that wasn't even part of it)

''Gaetz had warned that he would move to oust McCarthy if the speaker collaborated with Democrats to keep the government open and he followed through with that threat on Monday evening''

i'm curious why gaetz woke up and decided to be mccarthy's #1 hater on his scale. obviously him (as well as republicans and many establishment politicians at large) disagree with the nature of government spending unless it’s police or the army, and want to obstruct funding wherever they can.

what is true reason for Gaetz to go beyond just voting against the bill, but taking this measure? what does he stand to gain from a decision like this? is it as simple (and common) as an american politician disliking the nature of public/social spending bills and doing anything they can to stop one? is that as well as wanting to appear like a sensible stern 'will do what he has to do, no matter house messy' republican to his party and potential voters?

Gaetz went in

(ITS OVER…)

MC Widow's Peak has spoken

He is yapping to the press rn

he couldn't whip his seats and he alienated the dems who were willing to work with him by throwing them under the bus on fox news after they averted a looming shutdown

not a smart guy

for all the dumb s*** that pelosi and boehner, etc. did as speaker, at least they knew how to play the game

All it took to get rid of that clown McCarthy was a s***trafficker

Hilarious

That was legit. Why TF did it have to come from him though

yup

People give Pelosi alot of s*** which is mostly deserved

but you slowly start realizing how good she was at gathering support and being speaker

Welp, we got 45 day to get a new Speaker or who knows what the f*** happens.

These are the list of people they're saying could replace him:

Rep. Steve Scalise (La.): As the majority leader, the affable lawmaker from Louisiana is the second-ranking Republican and so, theoretically, he’d be first in line to replace McCarthy. Scalise has a more conservative profile than McCarthy, potentially helping him win over Freedom Caucus and other conservative members who never felt ideologically in sync with the Californian. He announced in August that he has a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma and was undergoing treatment.He returned to the Capitol last month and said his treatment was going well. Aside from health concerns, some Republicans also might not want to replace one establishment figure with another atop the conference.

Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.): The former hockey player and GOP whip is now the conference’s third-ranking member, so, like Scalise, it makes sense that he would be in the mix. As the two-time chair of the GOP’s national House campaign arm, he has relationships with about two dozen Republicans he helped elect, and as whip he has been charged with building bridges across the conference, so he has ties with all factions. But he might also face criticism for the GOP’s relatively weak midterm gains last year – a problem that left them with such a tenuous majority in the first place.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.): Another current leader, Stefanik is the GOP’s fourth-in-command and also likely to be in the mix. Once seen as a moderate New Yorker, the Harvard-educated Stefanik in recent years has remade herself as a full-throated Donald Trump loyalist, to the point where she knocked former Rep. Liz Cheney from leadership because of Cheney’s criticisms of the former president. Stefanik would be the first female Republican to lead the House. Some conservatives, though, might be suspicious of her recent ideological conversion.

Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio): Jordan is probably the most prominent and visible Trump ally in the House, a former Freedom Caucus leader who chairs the powerful Judiciary Committee. He led the defense of Trump during the former president’s first impeachment, and is now a driving force behind the push to impeach President Joe Biden. He’s one of the few figures who might actually please the party’s restive far right. But swing-district Republicans would almost certainly be wary of such a hard right turn.

Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.): A dark horse might be Cole, who is the embodiment of an old school member of Congress: a cigar-smoking institutionalist close with leadership and an appropriator who has managed to navigate the chamber over 20 years. He’s a former political staffer and now chairs the powerful Rules Committee. He’d potentially be a figure of stability, but conservatives wouldn’t likely see him as an agent of change.

disctrict mapping is so stupid

when will we have multicameral/parliamentary formats at least

Steve Scalise wins GOP nomination for speaker

TYTs takes have been under scrutiny lately too

More so Ana though