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McCarthy Is Our First Ceremonial House Speaker

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Posted By: Garnet, 1/11/2023 1:11:09 AM

When House clerk Cheryl Johnson declared at 12:38 a.m. Saturday morning, “The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the state of California, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives,” a lot of Republicans breathed a sigh of relief. But the bargain McCarthy was forced to make with a rump caucus of the GOP conference means that his ultimate election on the 15th ballot was, at best, a pyrrhic victory.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jayjeti 1/11/2023 2:46:03 AM (No. 1375558)
Dumb article that belittles those opposing McCarthy. McCarthy is speaker, not ceremonial. Those challenging McCarthy and getting conservative concessions was democracy at work despite this article saying it was not a demonstration of democracy in action.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Sully 1/11/2023 5:26:24 AM (No. 1375613)
What's eating Catron? Seems to not understand that the MAGA base is the core not a fringe, of the Republic pahty. Calls the Freedom Caucus a rump caucus and laments its influence. The elimination of omnibus bills alone was worth the fight. McCarthys speakership will be empowered not marginalized by an agenda that is actually conservative. Try too keep up Catron.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: GoodDeal 1/11/2023 6:01:56 AM (No. 1375629)
Many of us uttered a sigh of Ohhhhhhh god...... please deliver us from the McEvil Twins. McConnell and McCarthy will lead the way to Hell for the nation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: swarfer 1/11/2023 9:37:59 AM (No. 1375828)
Quite the opposite. Instead of a rubber stamp speaker, we finally have a REAL speaker who had to work through a democratic process to get the job. This is how things are supposed to work. Rubber stamp speakers are nothing more than tyrants and dictators of the congressional mob. Pelosi was one of the worst.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: janjan 1/11/2023 9:50:40 AM (No. 1375847)
Interesting how many so-called conservatives came out of the closet preferring the status quo. Sean Hannity is the worst. He got a very big head over his contact with Washington insiders. He became one of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 1/11/2023 10:32:01 AM (No. 1375889)
It drove Mark Levin out of the closet as well. Mark was very disappointed by the rebellion, and said he would be watching closely. Really? Well, I won't be listening to Levin any longer.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: TXknitter 1/11/2023 1:09:59 PM (No. 1376070)
Right on, right on, #5,6, as El Rushbo used to say. How I miss hearing him say that! Yes, tired of “conservative. inc.) types like Sean, Mark, Laura getting even richer fooling good-hearted MAGA voters that they are on our sides. They are not and I thank God that another big chunk of patriotic God-fearing conservatives stopped supporting these frauds.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: MDConservative 1/11/2023 3:49:26 PM (No. 1376196)
The fact is that no single Republican will demand a vote, but there are a score of Dems who would and three in particular who probably will. They have nothing to lose while the Gang of Fools will be forced to support McCarthy or suffer consequences for their lack of unity. Stupid, stupid move by Gaetz.
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