The House Goes Home Early

[RandySF]

“House Republican leaders canceled votes Wednesday and Thursday, sending lawmakers home after having wasted a week on Republican infighting that’s called into question the viability of the GOP leadership,” Punchbowl News reports.

“Conservative hardliners have been warring with Speaker Kevin McCarthy after the chamber passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act last week, which raised the debt limit until 2025. The GOP’s right flank saw the agreement as a betrayal of the secret deal they forged with McCarthy back in January that allowed him to become speaker. McCarthy denied this claim, but conservatives refused to let the House move forward on anything until they got more concessions from the speaker.”


https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/07/the-house-goes-home-early/

[getagrip_already]

1. Is this a recess?

McCarthy isn't really that stupid, os he?

Because if it is, I have a list of recess appointments to sell you.

[Trailrider1951]

10. I wish I could rec your post 10000000 times

From your lips to PJB's ears

[GregariousGroundhog]

12. The House doesn't get a say on appointments, only the Senate n/t

[getagrip_already]

20. Duhhhhooohhhh! (Smacking forehead)

You are correct. I plead temporary insanity.

[617Blue]

22. These children need recess nt

[Beachnutt]

2. Here is proof of the rethug infighting

[CurtEastPoint]

3. That crew is the most useless bag of dicks I have ever seen. Bunch turds.

[GreenWave]

4. Koch bros created tea baggers

ashamed of that they called themselves tea party.
IQ 45 rebranded them as Magats,
But they are dumb fucking Frankensteins on the loose.

[inthewind21]

17. Dick Armey

had a huge hand in it as well. I will never forget hearing on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, KO discussing the unfortunate name the Teabaggers had chosen and how Dick Armey was a powerhouse behind the movement, and made this statement, "Because there's nothing a group of teabaggers need more than a Dick Armey" That may not be word for word but it's damn close. I fell out laughing.

[GreenWave]

19. Most excellent follow up!

[dweller]

5. Smokescreen ?

Or are they really just putting as much distance as they can between them and

JACK SMITH ??


✌🏻

[Chainfire]

6. The cowardly bastards don't want to be in DC for the indictment.

Maybe they know something we don't.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. There they go again ...."Conservative Hardliners"

That's being too nice. Actually, they are just crazy ass repuglicans bent on F'ing our democracy and promoting russia.

[RussBLib]

8. Go sit in the corner!!

If you are going to act like children....

[gratuitous]

9. Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice has a post about this

Link to the story and comments here.

A couple of tidbits:

Just past 6 p.m. Wednesday, after GOP leaders gave up on resolving the impasse this week and canceled the remaining votes for the week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) addressed reporters and explained that part of the ongoing frustration is the hard-line faction’s inability to articulate their demands.

“This is the difficult thing,” he said. “Some of these members, they don’t know what to ask for.”

If you're flashing on a toddler having a meltdown and who can't articulate what he needs to feel better, I think you're spot on.

“This is, in my opinion, political incontinence on our part. We are wetting ourselves and can’t do anything about. This is insane,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said. “This is not the way a governing majority is expected to behave. And frankly, I think there’ll be a political cost to it.”

Remember the toddler thing? Throw in "not potty trained."

[FSogol]

11. "Some of these members, they don't know what to ask for." - Their handlers haven't told them what to

ask for.

[mercuryblues]

13. Their goal is to destroy democracy

It doesn't matter how, just destroy it.

[republianmushroom]

14. the price of the speakership.

[Celerity]

15. RW thugs and stooges

[3825-87867]

16. Question: CAn Biden make the House come back to work?

The Constitution says in Article II Section 3
concerning the president:

Section. 3.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Just curious.

[maxsolomon]

18. Don't care.

Do us all a favor and take the remainder of this Congress off.

[niyad]

21. When your enemy is fighting with itself, do nothing.