Meanwhile additional gridlock like this is going to occur with only a very short stopgap spending bill approved going into November and no other major viable candidates for republican speaker appear to be present.
I can’t wait to see how they’re going to make this the democrat’s fault.
He already tried to blame them on CNN or something. Saw the headline. Didn’t read the article.
I was just reading a WSJ article about it and basically the through line is “well we never gave Dems any concessions or have any plans to, and we forced through that last spending bill without time for review, and I broke promises on spending limits and then launched an unfounded impeachment bid BUT THEY WONT SHOW ANY UNITY TO KEEP THE HOUSE GOING” (obviously paraphrasing there)
The short of that is that he spun the efforts of the Democrats to actually read what they were voting on as efforts to shut him down, to try and make the moderate republicans the only good guys.
Democrats were the primary party to vote him out. So they can blame it on that. But since they have the majority, there is no excuse to not elect a new leader. Unless, of course, there is literally no republican suitable for the position…
Isn't this the 13th time?
I can't remember if it took 12 or 14 votes the first time to get elected
15, actually! I can't imagine they're gonna do it any quicker this time, because it's the exact same jackasses being a bunch of disruptive children, and no particularly popular alternatives appear to exist. Yaaaay we're in hell!
Is American politics ever not drama?
Republican politics are always drama.
Democratic politics are occasionally drama.
Democrat politics are flawed, in a regular, normal human kind of way.
republican politics are mentally ill, in a stubbornly ignorant, hysterical, corrosive and self-destructive way, it relentlessly goes on 24 hours a day forever.
Personally, I don't recall it being like this when I was younger. Then again, the biggest amount of drama I remember from way back then was stuff about a blowjob, a dress with stains, and the definition of "is." I'm sure there was probably more, but that was about the time I started paying some semblance of attention to things.
No. It’s exhausting. The media is definitely to blame in part.
The media is definitely to blame. Ftfy
No. People here don't even understand that politics should be boring and predictable.
All politics is always drama, it's just the degree of intensity that changes.
All this so Republicans can shut down the government.
*grabs popcorn 🍿
