“If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it,” McCarthy told CNN’s Manu Raju at a press conference. “There has to be an adult in the room. I am going to govern with what’s best for this country.”
Let’s all remember that the ONLY FUCKING REASON this came to a head is because McCarthy IS NOT A FUCKING ADULT. It was willing to let a HANDFUL blackmail him to shutdown the government by threatening to oust him as Speaker.
That’s not being an adult.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/politics/us-government-shutdown-latest/index.html
@feloneouscat This is not at all what happened. Just saying.
Oh? Please elaborate. He already has one person who wants to oust him (it only requires one for a vote — that was the agreement he forged with the hardliners).
@feloneouscat McCarthy agreed to this. We all knew this was going to happen.
And SURPRISE (but not really) it did. McCarthy took the country to the tip of ALL BECAUSE HE WAS NOT THE ADULT IN THE ROOM.
We should NEVER have a Speaker so beholden to a handful of idiots that don’t even understand what their job is, much less how to write a freaking bill.
The gross reality is that Kevin succumbed to the Republican Party who said, “Look, we’ll take you down — some of us need to get re-elected.” This is, IMHO, what happened in the back rooms.
Because, at the end of the day, Republicans RIGHT NOW can easily lose their hold on Congress. They look like amateurs who don’t have a freaking clue what they are doing.
McCarthy’s stunt did them a LOT OF DAMAGE and a lot of negative press that they cannot spin as the fault of Biden.
This was a massive fail for Republicans and is guaranteed to be used against them in the upcoming races. The ads practically write themselves.
This doesn’t affect just the House, but with McConnell’s programming blue screening, the Republicans have very little to call their own. They want to argue the economy sucks, but the reality is it doesn’t (they took the minority role in the Senate hoping that Biden would be a disaster — it was an interesting gamble that failed).
House Republicans are trying to impeach Biden but can’t find a high crime or misdemeanor — it’s all very comical except THEY ARE WASTING OUR MONEY!
As guys that I worked with used to say, Republicans “screwed the pooch” — they made bad gambles and lost. Every. Damn. Time.
“But doesn’t that make you happy?”
No! Our government is designed for compromise — buy-in from both sides of the aisle. When one side acts like a bunch of jackasses from a clown show this doesn’t give me a whole lot of comfort. I live where our state government is a jackass from an authoritarian clown show.
We don’t need this at the federal level.
@misslovelymess
What happened is that the ultra-conservatives cannot get any of their goofy bills out of committee much less to a vote. So they felt if they could threaten McCarthy’s speakership they could get through blackmail what they couldn’t get through legislation.
Never mind McCarthy and the White House had ALREADY NEGOTIATED THIS, the ultra-brats figured they could hold the US hostage and make things worse by devastating programs.
But I got it all wrong, so you will explain?