Gaetz says he will do ‘everything possible’ to stop empowering McHenry
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). “I’m against ‘Speaker Light’,” Gaetz said in a clip post…
Oh ho! Wait til Fox News finds out about his tan suit! Oh man, they're gonna drag him for weeks about that! Ha ha!
Ahh Fox News sure does hate tan suits. And news.
I bet he likes dijon mustard too...
Wow. I knew the suit was a thing for these people, but I had no idea they got all run up over mustard.
that is one hideously tailored suit. Like JC Pennies 'mail out to adjust off the rack suits' look better.
he'd look more professional if he was wearing fetterman's hoodie....
He did just come out of a 3.5 hour screamfest, so a little rumpling is expected.
But it's the wrong size, the tie is hideous. Jim Jordan won the clothes battle today for sure.
Only if your skin is darker than the suit
It still baffles me that out of 535 435 house members, 8 of them are running the show
Put slightly differently. Eight members of the house can cause total gridlock because the other 427 can’t even countenance taking a single step of compromise - and not even compromise on an actual law - compromise on the person who presides over the process.
The problem isn’t really the eight. The problem is that the process has gotten so fucked we can no longer work around a 1.8% nut job rate.
Edit: math
Democrats are open to compromise.
They have indicated that they are willing to support empowering McHenry until January.
Democrats are also willing to support other Republicans as Speaker, provided Republicans offer something in return.
But they aren't willing to support election deniers (like Jordan), and they won't support people who previously reneged on deals with Democrats (like McCarthy).
Not that it matters, because Republicans refuse to support anyone who needs Democratic support to become Speaker.
this shit show is made by republicans, continued by republicans and is entirely republicans fucking it up. Considering McCarthy failed to abide deals he had already made, why should democrats trust him to honor a second deal?
if republicans were even nominally bipartisan- like, you know, any reasonable body would be if the majority was led by exactly 4 votes- we wouldn't be in this mess.
If the number of seats in the House had not been frozen a century ago, this would not be a problem as it would provide representation proportional to population (as outlined in the US Constitution), rather than artificially amplifying the voices of low-population states. As it stands, citizens in Wyoming (pop. 577k, 1 rep) have any twice as much representation per capita than those of Delaware (pop ~1.003M, 1 rep), while both have a single Representative. Compared to California (pop. ~39.24M, 52 reps), which has a ratio of 1 rep:755k people.
There is, to be said, an issue of maintaining the level of proportionality originally intended (1 rep : 30k people). This would require over 11k representatives today. However, using the "Wyoming Rule", where the number of seats is proportional to that required to provide one Representative per population of the least populace state (currently Wyoming), the number is only about 575. That's much more manageable and would do a better job of providing equal representation and making gerrymandering harder.
Because McCarthy gave away guaranteed power to avoid compromise with any Democrat.
McCarthy made the deal that allowed the 8 to oust him.
In an ideal world, the speaker is supposed to be the most centrist person, but when you have parties of hardliners and refusal to make comcessions, you get the shit thats happening right now.
I don’t get Gaetz’s constitutional argument. The Constitution only has this to say about the Speaker role:
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and Officers
It hardly seems like a “desecration” to let the House choose a temporary speaker.
I know, I know, it’s shocking that Gaetz is not a serious person.
His comments are probably based more on the traditions and history of the House rather than any written law, House rule, or even Article of the Constitution
Remember when Republicans obsessed about running government like a business?
In the real world, this level of incompetence gets you fired.
It's not incompetence; it's sabotage.
Running like a bussiness: fire everyone who knows what they are doing, hire cheap replacement, present huge cuts to spending to prop up stock price, sell all stock at high, flee before the company implodes. Repeat.
In my experience, incompetence invariably gets one promoted to a position where the incompetence can be blamed on someone else.
Ha! You wish. It just as often gets you promoted.
Not when daddy owns the business.
Including voting for Jeffries?
Own the libs by giving Jeffries the one job that no sane Republican wants
Gaetz/Martian: Ack! Ack ack ack! Ack ack!
Reporter: Sir? We can't understand you. Why are you talking like this?
turns top of his watch
Gaetz/Martian: TREASON! GAETZ NO VOTE! MCHENRY BAD!
shuffles off weirdly
Its so hard to parody republicans when the reality is them using light beer in their rhetoric of federal government operations
Gaetz is a fucking drunk that had his daddy make his DUI problems go away. I can't say I'm surprised he relates everything to beer.
That's was just weird to read
C'Mon. we all know That Kavanaugh likes a good light beer....
Pretty much
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.).
Gaetz was one of the eight Republicans who sided with House Democrats to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) from his role earlier this month.
Now, as the House has gone weeks without a Speaker amid multiple crises like the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and a looming government shutdown, some in the lower chamber have considered a resolution to give McHenry more power.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who recently faced two failed attempts to gain the gavel this week, is also reportedly planning to back a resolution to empower McHenry.
“I will not sit back and watch a complete betrayal of the GOP base with this ‘plan’ that’s being discussed,” Boebert wrote on X.
“I ran because I was sick and tired of politicians coming up here and cutting deals and releasing ‘holier than thou’ statements about why we just had to accept it.”
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