Deplorables searching for new Speaker

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The last two decent ones (Cheney and Kinzinger) were excommunicated. The rest are a bunch of nihilists, idiots or protofascists with varying degrees of Trump fealty.

Here's my problem with Cheney and Kinzinger...their House voting records...

Voted with Trump on House bills...
Cheney 92.9%*
Kinzinger 90.2%*

My evaluation...both scum. The fact that they went against him in the Jan 6th hearings doesn't rectify anything...acting decent for once doesn’t make up for their voting records.

*Per Nate Silver

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Here's my problem with Cheney and Kinzinger...their House voting records...

Voted with Trump on House bills...
Cheney 92.9%*
Kinzinger 90.2%*

My evaluation...both scum. The fact that they went against him in the Jan 6th hearings doesn't rectify anything...acting decent for once doesn’t make up for their voting records.

*Per Nate Silver

I'm OK with them being conservatives. I'm not OK with the rest of them being fascists though.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I'm OK with them being conservatives. I'm not OK with the rest of them being fascists though.

I haven't picked apart the specific voting records of Cheney or Kinsinger, although the latter was the Rep from the district just north of mine, and that his reputation is "moderate" and that his district may be majority Democratic.

Anyway...my opinion remains that if one's voting record hugely favors a fascist chief executive, one is legitimately identifiable as a fascist. Just my humble clinical opinion.

[Rajoo]

Here is a cautionary event from today's voting.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) had a question for the two Republicans leading the race to succeed Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House speaker: Who won the 2020 election?

Politico’s sources in the closed-door meeting where it was offered put it as, “Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election?” But that was the gist. Buck was asking the potential next leader of the House whether he would side with reality — Trump lost — or with the mirage of fraud and theft that Trump has been so relentless about presenting.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) — who won an informal vote for the role on Wednesday morning — and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) apparently chose the mirage. But then the majority of the Republican caucus did, too, on Jan. 6, 2021, when it counted.

So the BIG LIE will continue and these are the people who are going to be passing laws and spending our tax dollars. Gawd help us.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...lection-trump/

[Rajoo]

Fight between KKK faction and MAGA faction in the Repugnant House, no winners or mediators. Scalise won the preliminary vote over Gym Jordan but will not get enough votes to get elected Speaker, ultimate insult being that Santos is refusing to vote for Scalise.

Republicans opposing Scalise cite several reasons: what they say is the lack of a plan to fund the government, no plan to change how Washington works, anger that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) lost the job and opposition to giving the next person in line a promotion.

How can anyone compromise on these grievances?
Hey, how about voting in McCarthy again?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-speaker-vote/

[RickeyM]

Clearing the way for tRump? If he is nominated which Repub has the guts to vote against him?

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Clearing the way for tRump? If he is nominated which Repub has the guts to vote against him?

Point I raised in the other thread before reading yours. If Trump says yes, its a done deal.