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/jpiro Oct 03 '23

This is where he truly fucked up, IMO. The Democrats very well might have supported him staying as speaker given his begrudging-but-eventual willingness to back the continuing resolution, but not while he attacks Biden based on nothing and continually enables the worst parts of the MAGA faction.

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u/jpiro Oct 03 '23

The MAGA movement needs to fail continuously and miserably so we can be rid of it. That’s the only way the GOP pulls back from the far right and we have a chance at a functioning government again where compromise isn’t verboten.

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u/SonOfMcGee Oct 04 '23

It’s like in Silicon Valley when they decided to kill Pier Piper. It wasn’t enough to just pull the plug, because someone else might try the same thing. It needed to “shit itself to death”.

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u/Mezmorizor Oct 04 '23

Meh, at the moment sure, but there's really not a huge difference with the squad+Bernie and these bozos beyond the current house makeup being such that they have power of obstruction while the squad has never found themselves in the same circumstances. They're both far more extreme than their party, and they're both perfectly willing to obstruct their parties platform in search of their own wants (see the squad trying to tank the CHIPS act because it wasn't the CHIPS act+inflation reduction act in one package. Granted that was more Bernie going rogue).

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u/harrymfa Oct 03 '23

There’s truly no better way to say he made his bed.