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The GOP House is a total mess. With Steve Scalise dropping out of the House Speaker race, what is the plan? WHO is the plan? And will the Republicans pull their heads out of their collective keisters and get out of their own way?
Rep. Steve Scalise announced he was dropping out of the speaker’s race Thursday after House Republicans failed to coalesce behind him in the aftermath of Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster.
“I just shared with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee,” the Louisiana Republican told reporters.
“If you look at where our conference is there’s still work to be done. Our conference still has to come together and is not there,” he said. “There are still some people that have their own agendas and I was very clear we have to have everybody put their agendas on the side and focus on what this country needs. This country is counting on us to come back together. This House of Representatives needs a speaker and we need to open up the House again, but clearly not everybody is there and there’s still schisms that have to get resolved.”
Right now we have a massive debt problem, a border that is non-existent leading to extreme national security concerns, Israel fighting for their lives against terrorists, a dementia-addled President with a cackling side kick, no oil in our reserves, and inflation that is getting out of control.
So what does the GOP House do? Fight over idiotic semantics and issue long-debunked claims that Steve Scalise loved him some KKK and David Duke back in the day.
Mace: I will vote for Jim Jordan on the floor. I personally cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke. . pic.twitter.com/PETIPInLxk
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2023
Except that Nancy, she of the asinine Scarlet A, didn’t do her homework. Even SLATE debunked that story years ago.
I see I'm going to have to correct the record about the Scalise/Duke baloney (THANKS NANCY MACE) even a decade after this stupid scandal broke:
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) October 11, 2023
*** STEVE SCALISE DID NOT ATTEND A WHITE NATIONALIST/DAVID DUKE RALLY. ***
SLATE (!!!) IN 2014: pic.twitter.com/7j6UwiJMEf
I don’t know what game Nancy is playing, but after this egregious slam from her, perhaps Steve should ask for the $10K back that his PAC donated to her last year.
While it is looking like Jim Jordan is back on deck, comments like this from other House Republicans do not help matters!
Rep. Max L. Miller (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he thinks Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.) should be granted more powers to give the Republican conference more time — perhaps two months — to coalesce around a candidate for speaker. Miller, who supported Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for speaker, said he was a “hard no” on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) right now but could be convinced.
“We are just subbing out Kevin McCarthy for Steve Scalise,” Miller said. “We have to make a real fundamental change here within Congress. … We want to take the time to get it right.”
Guess what folks? WE. DO. NOT. HAVE. TWO. MONTHS for you to waste our time in-fighting and holding freaking grievance sessions!
Was I concerned about his cancer battle? Absolutely. But if you cannot or are unwilling to articulate just exactly WHY on policy matters you do not support Steve Scalise, then your commentary about his health is just gaslighting spin. Yes, we DO have people in office who are too old and/or are facing health issues. That should be of concern, but the opposition to someone as House Speaker should only be driven on policy issues.
While I do understand that there is work being done, having a Speaker in place during this critical time is crucial. So again, while we have Americans still stranded in Israel (with the State Department of zero help just like Afghanistan), this type of in-fighting makes us look even more foolish on the national and international stage.
New – A group of GOP members circulating a letter asserting that Patrick McHenry should have the power as an interim speaker to preside over legislative business. A sign of the desperate moment Republicans are in with Scalise facing bleak prospects to win the speakership
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 12, 2023
And this is fair criticism as well.
The House Republican Conference is a mess. Complete and utter mess. They are no closer to picking a speaker. They are a month away from a shutdown. Israel is asking for aid, which needs to pass in the next few weeks.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2023
They are completely lost. And have no idea how they will get…
Due to temper tantrums from a few, Kevin McCarthy was kicked to the curb and Matt Gaetz realized he’d caught the car yet had zero plan for what to do next. And now, we are reaping the results of his foolishness.
We don’t have a budget. Only a continuing resolution that winds down before the end of the year. Not only that, but we ALSO have an on-going impeachment inquiry into the Biden Family Brand, and Hamas demanding protest rage sessions today. As I noted above, the House GOP needs to pull their heads out of their asses, quit with the grievance sessions, and get back to work for their constituents.
I think somewhere in House rules it allows the acting Speaker Pro Tempore to do the Michael Scott “I declare bankruptcy” thing and just give Dems the gavel. That’s probably what’s best for everyone at this point https://t.co/rzpzTHMbvG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 13, 2023
That would be a hard NO from me. GOP, pay very close attention. Now is NOT the time to have asinine struggle sessions. The House GOP better get a clue and fast on this.
Feature Photo Credit: Official 2019 House photo via US House photography, public domain, cropped and modified
Bucky says: I’m not a supporter of an organized political party. I am a Republican.
American Human says: Hallelujah Nina, say it like it is. I 100% agree. So many egos, so little time.
John Shepherd says: The people who cheered Matt Gaetz aren’t much different than tear it down with no plan leftists. Gaetz and his supporters have the same mentality as Gen Z Antifaistas.
Make Newt Gingrich speaker again.
The House of Representatives is given the exclusive power to control the purse strings of the Federal Government. Has the “Republican” majority (no such thing, the majority is Lock Step Democrats and Democrats in Republican Clothing) exercised that power? No.
IF the “Republican” majority (again, no such thing) wanted to right the Ship of State, they would pass appropriation bills post-haste – bills that very specifically fund what is needed (and Constitutional), and not a single one that satisfies the wet dreams of the Democrat would-be tyrants in the Senate and the White House.
THEN start a full court press to remove those same Democrats when they vote down or veto those bills. Make it VERY clear who is responsible for the military being unfunded, for the Interstates not being maintained, for the Social Security checks not going out, for the SNAP cards not working.
Won’t happen, of course. There will be another Continuing Resolution – or, worse, an Omnibus – sometime in the next month.
John Shepherd says: False. Revenue bills must originate in the House
Appropriations bills can originate in the either House.
McCarthy put forth a CR with an across the board 8% cut. Gaetz voted with the Democrats to kill it because he wanted to fund raise off the shutdown and deposing the Speaker.
You cannot spend money that is not revenue. (Revenue as in taxes, sales of government property, OR issuing debt instruments.)
“Here is an appropriation for pens for the Oval Office. Here is the funding for same. If you change it to the more appropriate crayons for the current occupier of that office, it will NO LONGER be funded. He’ll have to pay for his own Crayolas if he wants them.”
John Shepherd says: You are clearly of below average intelligence. We have been spending money for which we don’t have revenue for many years. That is why we have trillions in debt.
To say that the House is given the sole power of purse strings is equally ignorant of the Constitution. Even though revenue bills originate in the House they must still pass the Senate to become law. The same thing with appropriations. Even if passed by Congress the bills are still subject to a Presidential veto. Perhaps you should review high school civics before posting. Maybe if you understood the Constitution you might be less inclined to support idiots like Matt Gaetz.
Any amendments to a bill must also pass the House. Perhaps you should review your junior high civics – and take a remedial reading course – before showing off your ignorance.
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