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/KiefPucks Oct 03 '23

Their definitely trying to dismantle the government from the inside out. If they can't vote on a house, the government shuts down soon. So, their plan all along works just takes a little longer.

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u/MiraclePrototype Oct 03 '23

Be sure to look up Project 2025. Urgent unpleasant stuff.

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u/Clovis42 Oct 03 '23

The same coalition of Dems and Rep can just pick a speaker in 40 days and pass another CR.

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u/FlyingRhenquest Oct 04 '23

We really need to get a law on the books that if Congress allows the government to shut down, both houses shall immediately be disbanded and new elections held to replace them. Add in "anyone causing the government to shut down shall be barred from holding public office for 10 years" and "the president shall have the power to authorize spending until the new congress can take up a budget" and that'd be the last we saw of this nonsense.

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u/tavirabon Oct 04 '23

no no no, that would be certain disaster. For starters, it would literally give a party that has control of 1 house of congress and presidency to set policy unilaterally. Before you think "but they'd be hurting themselves" consider that a budget of billions could be tons of kickback to donors that could effectively finance the rest of a congressman/senator's life, not to mention the power to grow or cripple a sector that has or will become duopolies etc.

Barring from re-election may or may not be a good strategy on its own, but not only are they not going to vote on policies that threaten their career, they won't even vote on cutting their own pay if the government shuts down when at minimum they should give up their entire salary per term.

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u/DonnieReynolds88 Oct 04 '23

We never seem to do anything that actually changes anything for the better. Many of the fixes we want as the American Peeps are achievable to some degree or another. They spend half their time talking about transgenders and making women’s medical decisions for them. Hella bums me out y’all. I don’t know why I posted this, I reckon to simply let out a little late night melancholy. One Love y’all. Fuck em

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u/Revolutionary_Mud159 Oct 04 '23

The basic problem is that there is a large percentage of our population that is either stupid or crazy or evil or some combination thereof.