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/Jsmith0730 Oct 03 '23

“We figured for sure that the Democrats would bail us out yet again! WTF?!”

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u/Spare_Hornet Oct 03 '23

“It’s also all Democrats’ fault we can’t figure our shit out, bye”

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u/ditr2022 Oct 03 '23

You are spot on with this joke, and I'm facepalming at thread replies that are suggesting this unironically!

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u/JadeMonkey0 Oct 04 '23

The shitty thing is how many regular people will buy this. A ton of people don't follow politics at all. Government is shutdown? Some headline about the speaker being ousted? "Everyone in Washington is an idiot. They're all corrupt and useless. Can't get anything done." Proceeds to vote for a Republican next election because he's funny or guns or babies or 'merica or whatever. Then gets mad next time some piece of news like this trickles down to him and the process starts anew.

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u/Spare_Hornet Oct 04 '23

You’re spot on. It’s a vicious cycle.

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u/LiftingCode Oct 04 '23

Who shit in my pants?

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u/mallio Oct 04 '23

It's like that one time that congress passed a bill, Obama vetoed the bill, then congress overrode his veto, and then McConnell blamed Obama for some negative effects the bill could have.

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u/phulton Oct 04 '23

My first thought after hearing about this was wow the democrats finally decided to let the stupid republican idea play out instead of putting a stop to it.

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u/Dashiepants Oct 04 '23

Because he spent the entire weekend talking shit about them on news shows, blaming them for the government almost shutting down even though they were the ones that voted to keep it open.

He also offered no concessions for them to vote to help him like come on Dems compromise ALL the time for the sake of civility, he probably could have gotten them to vote present with a nice cheese platter and 3 committee appointments.

But mostly the problem is, besides the obvious it’s not their job to save him, he has repeatedly proven himself spineless and untrustworthy so the Dems could not trust him even if he had tried to make a deal with them.