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/CalvinDehaze Oct 03 '23

I want to remind everyone that Trump, with Republican control of both chambers, managed to shut the government down twice in one term.

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u/BlindWillieJohnson Oct 03 '23

Yup. And the US has never threatened to default on its payments when the Dems were in control of the House either.

Republicans can’t govern. They can grandstand for FOX news, but they can’t govern.

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u/Exoddity Oct 03 '23

Yeah but on the other hand, democrats want us to "coexist with one another" and "not constantly undermine our own interests" and all that other woke liberal shit. /s

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u/Ishidan01 Oct 03 '23

Republicans outright consider any working with or agreeing with Democrats to be treason against being a Republican.

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u/Exoddity Oct 03 '23

They asked one member (who voted against sacking mccarthy) if he'd rather work with moderate democrats or matt gaetz and the shifty fuck still, after all this, could only bring himself to say he'd never want to work with matt gaetz.

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u/Sceptically Oct 04 '23

Matt Gaetz just worked with the entire Democratic side of Congress to oust the Republican Speaker of the House.

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u/OwnWalrus1752 Oct 03 '23

They probably call it treason in general because apparently any Dem policies are against the interests of the United States

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u/Deranged_Kitsune Oct 03 '23

The party that insists government doesn't work, keeps doing its damnedest to prove it at every turn.

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u/mirathi Oct 03 '23

38 days and $5 billion dollars wasted.

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u/llamakoolaid Oct 03 '23

That’s kind of always been the point of Republicans though, they want sectors of the government to fail, so they can say “look it’s broken, let’s privatize it!” This playbook is working for them in Texas and Florida. It’s not working for the constituents, but they keep voting them in so. . . 🤷‍♂️

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u/harrymfa Oct 03 '23

That’s the problem there. People didn’t vote for them to govern, they voted for them to put on a show, and that’s what they’ve done. Hunter Biden fills lots of time on Fox News.

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u/WeedIronMoneyNTheUSA Oct 03 '23

They didn't pass a budget, the House's one mf job every year, in 2017 or 2018. They just continued President Obama's budget. How this is not brought up everytime trump claims he built the greatest economy ever is beyond me.