The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely.

On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the gavel, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, were addressing colleagues behind closed doors at a candidate forum. But they appeared to be splitting the vote.

McCarthy, meanwhile, was openly ready to reclaim the gavel he just lost, but was seen by many as a longshot option unlikely to win back the handful of hardliners who just ousted him.

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    If the world didn’t require actual leadership this would be funny. Except it does and these morons are in a position of influence. You have 8 people who value being on TV over lives, and over 200 people who will work with you if you don’t tether everything to women’s uteri.

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      Just last week I was actually looking forward to the dramatics to begin. As long as they figured their shit out before the debt ceiling came crashing down again, it would be fine. Definitely don’t feel that way now!

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    Democrats and 4 republicans who actually care should put up a speaker to call a vote for a comprehensive aid package to Ukraine and Israel that funds to January 2025, then have that speaker step down.

    Don’t let our allies suffer because of our dysfunction. It puts us in the exact same situation that we are in now without fucking over the rest of the world at a critical moment.

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      4 republicans who actually care

      This doesn’t exist. Oh well, voters’ faults. All they had to do was pick D if they want a functioning government. One job.

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    This should probably trigger an election when a speaker can’t be decided upon. Similar to other countries that fail to form a government

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    Name me a more traitorous political party in modern times. Our founding fathers would be making daily executions.

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        While yes, I’m normally inclined to believe Republicans colluding with foreign governments. I think this time, it’s all just extremely unfortunate timing. McCarthy being outside really does seem to be hard-line Republicans being fed up with him, with the budget proposal being the final straw. Also McCarthy was heavily disliked by both sides.

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      I could be actually worse. If the 45 day budget extension hadn’t occurred we could have a shut down government AND no House leadership to do anything about it while the Republicans fight amongst themselves for Speaker of the House.

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    Republicans are just having a good time. Wearing shirts with a giant letter A on it, walking around with a lasso and smiling while the country burns to the ground.

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      They are a party who is only united by hate for others. Once you get beyond that facade no one there knows how to function.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely.

    On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the gavel, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, were addressing colleagues behind closed doors at a candidate forum.

    Just 10 months in power, the historic ouster of their House speaker — a first in the U.S. — and the prolonged infighting it has unleashed are undercutting the Republicans’ ability to govern at a time of crisis at home and abroad.

    “We’re in a similar situation that we were back in January,” said Doug Heye, a former Republican leadership aide, adding the political optics of the feud look “terrible” to American voters.

    McCarthy headed into the evening forum insisting he was not, at the moment, a candidate for speaker and urging his colleagues to resolve the issue internally Wednesday before bringing a nominee forward to a full House vote.

    But the California Republican gave a nod to his own short track record as speaker — being ousted by the far-right flank after he led Congress to approve a stopgap spending bill to prevent a disruptive federal government shutdown.


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    I wonder if they will figure it out before the shutdown? (November 17th?) Seems like they would have trouble funding their little darlings in Israel if they don’t.

    Or maybe they want that too. I don’t know anymore. It’s like trying to understand a toddler.

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    I stand by what I said last week. The Democrats probably shouldn’t have voted to remove, because it’s going to be months. The republicans don’t give a crap about the government shutting down.

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      If McCarthy had ever given even one iota of compromise to the democrats they might have voted not to oust him, but instead he constantly split in their faces and poked their eyes. (Just to appease the magas who ultimately ousted him anyway.)

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      No. I’m sorry. You don’t vote to keep a speaker who worked with you (at the last minute) to pass a bill then turned around and badmouthed you the second the bill passed.