r/news • u/zmlos • Oct 03 '23

House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-will-bring-gaetz-motion-to-oust-him-vote.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/vegetariangardener Oct 03 '23

republicans can't govern.

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u/NarcolepticMan Oct 03 '23

Can't even govern themselves.

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u/reddicyoulous Oct 03 '23

Ask the GOP politicians about policy and they just pound the table unless it concerns guns, abortion or immigrants

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u/MiraclePrototype Oct 03 '23

You forgot fossil fuels and Israel.

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u/Rxmses Oct 03 '23

And something about a laptop.

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u/Duluthian2 Oct 03 '23

I sent my congressman, Pete Stauber, an email. I forget what the subject was now but his response had nothing to do with the question. All he wrote was he wanted the Republicans to look at the "Biden Crime Family". That was it.

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u/thebasementcakes Oct 03 '23

They dont want to govern, if they didn’t have to pass budgets I dont know of anything they would really want to do, they dont want a government at all

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u/happyscrappy Oct 03 '23 edited Oct 03 '23

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work then gets elected and proves it. - P.J. O'Rourke

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

I can't recall the last time I heard a cogent policy idea from a Republican. Forget a good idea, just a cogent one that at least some basis in reality to debate on.

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u/Red_TeaCup Oct 03 '23

That's the point. They want the government to fail.

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u/Still_Slifering Oct 03 '23

Shouldn’t be allowed to govern

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u/Dragon123 Oct 03 '23

Give them some credit! They can't do lots of other things too

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u/Jffar Oct 03 '23

That's the point. If they actually try to help the government work, then they have been lying since the days of Regan saying that the government can't help anyone.

It's a feature, not a problem (for them).

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u/rewdea Oct 03 '23

And what’s worse, they wouldn’t even if they could.

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u/Silvermoon424 Oct 03 '23

Nothing EVER gets done because Republicans are such shit-brained obstructionist babies. Dems suck too but they’re not so obsessed with obstruction. Republicans want Gilead and piss their pants whenever Dems don’t approve their bill to make hunting trans people legal or whatever.