House Is Paralyzed as Far-Right Rebels Continue Mutiny Against McCarthy

[RandySF]

Hard-right Republicans pressed their mutiny against Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a second day on Wednesday, keeping control of the House floor in a raw display of their power that raised questions about whether the speaker could continue to govern his slim and fractious majority.

Mr. McCarthy, who enraged ultraconservative Republicans by striking a compromise with President Biden to suspend the debt limit, has yet to face a bid to depose him, as some hard-right members have threatened. But the rebellion has left him, at least for now, as speaker in name only, deprived of a governing majority.

“House Leadership couldn’t Hold the Line,” Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a leader of the rebellion, tweeted on Wednesday. “Now we Hold the Floor.”

After being forced for the second day in a row to cancel votes as they haggled privately with members of the House Freedom Caucus to get them to relent, leaders told Republican lawmakers on Wednesday evening that they were scrapping votes for the remainder of the week. In a remarkable act of intraparty aggression, about a dozen rebels ground the chamber to a halt on Tuesday by siding with Democrats to defeat a procedural measure needed to allow legislation to move forward, and business cannot resume until they back down and vote with their own party.




https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/politics/mccarthy-house-republicans-mutiny.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[2naSalit]

1. The do nothing party.

[RKP5637]

3. Exactly, all they do is bring hostilities to the table and no can do. They are so grotesque. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Matt Gaetz, another GOP gross POS. n/t

[Easterncedar]

4. Sweet schadenfreude

More, please!

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Well they are saving Biden from dealing with the bullshit legislation.

So, thanks Matt and MTG.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Not only did Biden get the debt ceiling raised,

He split the House republicans in the process. He's using tricks he learned before many of them were born. Tell us once again he's too old to do the job. They are too young to go up against him.

[Deuxcents]

7. Agree, Mr Bill

[NowISeetheLight]

15. Dark Biden

Dark Biden is real.... he is your father... and he owns Republicans!

[Takket]

8. Democrats be like........

[liberalmediaaddict]

9. Exactly

Watching these House Republicans self destruct is too much fun.

And now that the debt ceiling fiasco is behind us we can relax and enjoy watching these clowns make fools of themselves.

[Takket]

10. every day they spend acting like incompetant immature treasonous brats is one less day they spend

creating horrifically awful legislation. Run that clock out

[Cha]

12. lol.. Yep, Thanks for reminding me to

put in my previous post, too.

[Cha]

11. Wonder how EmtyG is on this.. she's

one of the ones who wanted Kev to be Speaker & maybe had a Falling out with Bosobert over it.

Remember when Kev walked over to matty G and whispered something in his ear when the voting was going on for Speaker and Gaetz turned a Whiter shade of pale?

[Chainfire]

13. The more they fight among themselves the better I like it.

[NowISeetheLight]

14. Screw America Party

Screw America ... the Freedom Caucus motto. How date McCarthy negotiated with the "enemy" and stop a complete economic collapse.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. the rs have been do nothings for decades , what else is new.

[Initech]

17. Stop voting for stupid people!

And stop listening to those fucking right wing talk shows! They contribute absolutely nothing of value to this country!

[no_hypocrisy]

18. The "Freedom Caucus" is bluffing.

They would have thrown out McCarthy last week if they were both inclined and able to do so.

They aren't.

[Ziggysmom]

19. In The NY Times article, it notes some rank and file Reps called the House spectacle

“political incontinence". That's a good term for all of the GQP!!!

[republianmushroom]

20. I like it

[Initech]

21. This is what happens when you vote for crazy over competency.

Good lord, electing Infowars conspiracy theorists to office is proving to be a massive mistake.

[BlueIdaho]

22. When the opposition is busy digging a deeper hole

Let them.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Rebels? More like mainstream now.

They are the true GOP these days.

[Hortensis]

24. The "purity" Freedom caucus and "purity-progressives" did some allying.

They're exploring their common interests on other issues also. Right now that's causing McCarthy problems, his "purists" being significantly more numerous and currently empowered than "purists" elected to the Democratic side.

Of course these zealous "purist" factions whose nature is to oppose the large mainstream caucuses have always had a great deal in common temperamentally -- including belief in their ideological superiority and their right, even righteous duty, to prevail over the large majorities elected by the people. Empowering one empowers both.

Here be dragons, of course.

“Sometimes the political spectrum is more of a circle than a line. At some point, you might have sometimes-differing motives or different ranges, but you end up [at] the same conclusion, and that’s okay. That’s kind of how our system works.” ~ ” Chip Roy (R-Texas), Freedom Caucus leader

[markodochartaigh]

25. Elect kkklowns, expect a cirkkkus. nt

[catrose]

26. Fine