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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,414 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:12 PM Dec 2022

GOP's John Cornyn shreds Republican Kevin McCarthy after his threat against Senate legislation

WASHINGTON — GOP leaders sent a letter to the Republicans in the Senate on Monday threatening to kill every bill that comes to the House from a Republican that supports the omnibus spending bill that will keep the government funded through Sept. 2023. House Republicans had threatened to shut down the government ahead of the holidays.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Senate Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) said that their problem is that the GOP is in the minority. Even in the House, the GOP is so split that they'll likely struggle to bring conservatives together with the far right.

When Raw Story asked Cornyn about the threats from House members, he said that he didn't quite understand what they were trying to do.

"Well, I wonder what they're gonna do, uh, legislatively," he said. "They can't do anything by themselves. And they're in the — they have a thin majority. They're having a hard time even gettin' a majority for the Speaker."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-s-john-cornyn-shreds-republican-kevin-mccarthy-after-his-threat-against-senate-legislation/ar-AA15v4h5

McCarthy wants the speakership so badly.

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GOP's John Cornyn shreds Republican Kevin McCarthy after his threat against Senate legislation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2022 OP
House Republicans want to hold the USG government hostage by defunding it....to get stupid OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2022 #1
I can only hope that the lock-step, hive-mind of the GOP has finally rotted from within blogslug Dec 2022 #2
McCarthy is a worm Celerity Dec 2022 #3
Republicans are too busy driving wedges between factions in their own party to do real harm. patphil Dec 2022 #4
Oh Good! I was hoping Blowback Cha Dec 2022 #5
Cornyn is incapable babylonsister Dec 2022 #6
It's going to be a very Merry Christmas indeed! FlyingPiggy Dec 2022 #7
The revenge faction of the gop was salivating over holding everything Fullduplexxx Dec 2022 #8
Maybe Mad_Machine76 Dec 2022 #9

OAITW r.2.0

(24,756 posts)
1. House Republicans want to hold the USG government hostage by defunding it....to get stupid
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:18 PM
Dec 2022

legislation passed. Cronyn understands the play and knows that Kev doesn't got the cards to bluff.

blogslug

(38,021 posts)
2. I can only hope that the lock-step, hive-mind of the GOP has finally rotted from within
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:19 PM
Dec 2022

Maybe they really will be so fractured they can't get anything done.

patphil

(6,242 posts)
4. Republicans are too busy driving wedges between factions in their own party to do real harm.
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:21 PM
Dec 2022

They may have numbers in the House, but they're going to see how hard it is to get all of them to pull together.
Expect a lot of votes with Republicans spite voting against each other.
There's no question in my mind that McCarthy's not up to herding those cats.
I don't think any one of them is.

Cha

(297,975 posts)
5. Oh Good! I was hoping Blowback
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:25 PM
Dec 2022

on mr tough guy scared he's not gonna be the leader of the Fascist Idiots.

Fullduplexxx

(7,878 posts)
8. The revenge faction of the gop was salivating over holding everything
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 09:49 PM
Dec 2022

Hostage now it's being taken from them and they're soiling themselves

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