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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— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 5, 2023
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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.