Update: McCarthy lost the 11th round, and the 12th is scheduled for noon Friday.
The House has voted to adjourn until noon on Friday after Kevin McCarthy loses 11th speaker vote.
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Kevin McCarthy lost a vote in the 9th and 10th rounds. McCarthy has promised to go to endless votes. If he had any decency, he’d pull out.
THIS IS WHAT MCCARTHY REFUSED
The House Freedom Caucus members asked McCarthy to hold votes on a balanced budget, the Fair Tax Act, the Texas Border Plan, and term limits for members of Congress, but “he refused,” Rep. Scott Perry said in a statement.
Perry also said: “We requested transparent, accountable votes on individual earmarks that would require two-thirds support to pass and to ensure that all amendments to cut spending would be allowed floor consideration. He dismissed it.”
“Kevin McCarthy had an opportunity to be speaker of the House. He rejected it,” Perry’s statement concluded.
“We’re not empowering certain members over others,” he said.
Perry said he could have been Speaker if he had agreed.
Media is reporting that McCarthy has offered tremendous concessions, but the truth is any of the concessions could be waved away at will.
JIM JORDAN MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THE SPEAKERSHIP
A high-ranking staffer on Capitol Hill told National File that Freedom Caucus Rep. Jim Jordan rejected a request from Kevin McCarthy and members of the GOP establishment to promise not to accept a nomination for the Speakership. Jordan refused, indicating his receptiveness to the speakership, even as he voted to nominate McCarthy.
If that’s true, it’s not normal. Acting like thugs is not the way we’ve done business in America. Something is very wrong here. Nothing about this is normal. Why isn’t McCarthy dropping out? Why did McConnell take away the House’s leverage? There is much more here than meets here.
I don’t know if I believe this story. Jim Jordan sounded fairly definite about not wanting the job.
These politicians, with a few exceptions, do not represent us.
It’s interesting how the New York Times supports Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy on Thursday lost the 10th vote for the speakership, even after offering concessions to hard-right Republicans.
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As we watch the clown show, the deals are being made in the back room to assure that Charlei McCarthy becomes the Speaker as has been determined by the WEF, DAVOS, and all other NWO players.
Twenty patriots in Congress will be punished for trying to represent the American People as soon as McCarthy takes over.
Well if McCarthy is refusing those common sense solutions, I guess he isnt the one we need as Speaker. If worse comes to worse and they cant choose a reasonable speaker for two years, its probably better. That way they they cant pass any legislation.
Or spend any more of OUR Money!
Any concessions that McCarthy would give, should be on paper and notarized. This man is not to be trusted.
Dan Crenshaw exposes his true feelings about “the 20” (and, by extension, all those of us who support them in their thus-far valiant efforts to block McCarthy), when he states, “We cannot let the terrorists win.” If I’m not mistaken, he also referred to us as “enemies.”
The fact that neither McCarthy, nor Jim Jordan, nor any of the rest of the 200 have even meekly opined that such a comment is indicative of gross hostility toward their own base, and smacks of the same kind of comments that have been hurled at us by the Totalitarian Leftist media and their Democrat cohorts for the past two years, tells us ALL WE NEED TO KNOW about the true mindset of the huge majority of the “Republican” party.
We are held in sneering contempt by those we have voted for. They scorn and deride us to our faces, and then they laugh.
We are on our own.
What McCarthy rejected is only a portion of what the People want to see implemented to control Congress, not just the House. Anyone who rejects these provisions has exposed themselves as a member of the political elite, engorged with power and not wiling to represent the People who put them in office. These provisions are also part of what the Convention of States is looking to implement, enshrined in the Constitution as new amendments. Just over half the states needed for a new Convention have signed commitments to attend; only 15 more states are needed to add to the 19 already signed up. It would be far better if the politicians put restraints on themselves rather than the states forcing them to abide. But a Convention will be held as a last resort if they fail to act in the coming years. We are a Republic, not a democracy. It’s time we start acting like one.
If what is being reported is true then just vote for a Democrat because McCarthy is no different. The Majority is saying they are being held hostage by the Minority of 21, but the reality is the 21 represent the People and the Deep State 200 is holding The People hostage. The longer they hold out, the more we are learning about the Republicans in Congress true colors and allegiance to the Deep State Bureaucrats. Hopefully the 21 can hold out until October when the whole Government will have to shutdown. And I mean shutdown, no budget and they hit the Debt Ceiling. The people will find out that we don’t need the Federal Government to do anything more than protect our Borders; which it now refuses to do. Everything else for the most part is already done more efficiently by the States; at least in a Red State!
The 21 need to be like The Asshole. The parts of the body decided to vote on who should be in charge. The Heart made his points, as did the stomach, the lungs, and the vital organs. The Brain dismissed them all and basically anointed himself in charge; the Asshole objected. All the rest of the parts of the body laughed and snickered at the idea of the Asshole being in charge. So the Asshole tighten up the sphincter and caused the body to be constipated. The rest of the body became so sick that they held a vote and put the Asshole in charge. This is why the 21 need to be Assholes. Assholes do an important job. They dispose Shit and there is a lot of Shit in the Beltway that needs to be disposed of.
One after another I hear the Gang of 200 on TV talking about the changes that the Minority want to make which for the most part is a return to regular order and they are parallelized with the fear that they are giving up too much control at the Leadership level and the Democrats may find a way to out flank them. If you give into fear that easily, you don’t belong in the House of Representatives!
Go Assholes!
The only way Mc wins now is with dirty tricks, with dem votes, or having enough dems not show up for a vote. I have no doubt he is talking to them.
The story on the negotiations was mostly over 2 months ago. The media revisits it as if it had not all already been tried, as if these are new discussions in which Mc was conceding.
They act like thugs because they are used to playing dirty and rigging things.
Imagine asking Jordan to rule out taking it. That shows weakness.
Opposing votes on border security and controlling the debt are fundamentally leftist positions.
I don’t see the conservatives going for Scalise. I heard on the radio that Scalise is further left than Mc, for example, on spending and in supporting Liz Cheney. Even after Cheney was fully exposed for her power play, and condemned by the party, Scalise still supported her for reelection. Scalise was actually more active supporting Ryan than Mc.
This is a big problem with McCarthy. Pelosi will stand there and answer questions for nearly an hour, but McCarthy spends very little time giving answers.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1611181458550583296
They’ve adjourned until Noon tomorrow. The reason Congress starts so late in the day is they are required to make donor calls during these times.
And threatening calls all night . . they need to sleep in till late morning.
I am a life-long Republican, and until moving to Australia for work was an active precinct worker. With the antics of Kevin McCarthy I am ashamed to be called a Republican. Kevin is appearing more and more to be a RINO and a swamp creature. It is time for him to stop running and let a person who stands on long held Republican positions lead the party.
I am also ashamed to have been such a strong Trump supporter. H is now acting more and more like a typical politician, an outsider who does not stand firmly on Republican principles.
Acting more like the Democrats, Kevin McCarthy and his allies, are labeling good people with bad names, and falsely accusing them of the very practices of terrorism of which they are guilty.
Both Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnel, in stead of leading the people’s choices for office holders. are interfering in the primary process and even (as in Alaska) in a general election. These swamp creatures are all about serving and enriching themselves, rather than serving the people.
Back to basics, or die as a party. The Democrats, while there is infighting, not having the strong principles and scruples of true Republicans can unite even when it damages the country.
I agree.
The dem core is hard left, and the hard left controls the party.
The repub core is conservative, but the left controls the party. It is an occupation.
The Duran’s take on the vote.
https://rumble.com/v241fki-kevin-mccarthy-struggles-to-find-path-towards-house-speaker.html
Of course they don’t represent us. I’m unsure of the House, but in my entire lifetime there hasn’t been One single Senator that left and returned to the State. I suspect it’s mostly the same in the House.
A documentary film Steve Bannon made years ago about DC being the wealthiest in the country. Interestingly, that area is the only place where people buy Lamborghinis with cash. As it revealed, there are Trillions of dollars at stake; and we know where all that money goes. It’s the epitome of money laundering.
Gateway Pundit is reporting that, once again, members of Congress significantly is beating the markets.
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1610284489665818625
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