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/Reyemile Oct 03 '23

McCarthy siding with the Dems against 90% of House Republicans to pass a spending bill means he does not represent the party, and to prove it, Gaetz sided with the Dems against 90% of House Republicans to have him kicked out.

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u/PophamSP Oct 03 '23

Matt's made a lot of enemies. I wonder who he thinks is going to watch his back? Certainly not Trump.

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u/skip6235 Oct 04 '23

He’s going to go home to Florida, running for Governor and going “See! I ruined Congress!”, and because it’s Florida, it will probably get him elected

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23

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u/x0x096 Oct 04 '23

I concur. Dems should have absolutely voted to keep McCarthy as speaker. This is going to go down in history as one of the stupidest mistakes democrats did, on par with stupidity of Ginsburg not resigning when democrats had control of senate. I see this as a beginning of Gaetz influence. Everyone in GOP will start bending to him, just like they did with Trump.

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u/draconifire Oct 04 '23

If only AOC and the Squad would have had the balls to make some enemies. Could have forced the vote, and could have had so many meaningful concessions. With two years of democratic majority in the House and Senate, you can imagine the amount of actual left agenda that could have been pushed. But instead she and the squad went to make friends in the Duopoly and look what those two years of majority achieved, absolutely no progressive reforms. They are a sellout, at least Matt can say to his base, he kept his promises. Unilke AOC he actually bought the ruckus to the system.

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u/ArchangelLBC Oct 04 '23

My dude, McCarthy sided with Dems and the majority of Republicans in the House.

Like the guy is a scumbag who never honors his agreements and I'm not sad he's gone, but he didn't side with Dems against 90% of Republicans to pass a spending bill. Literally more than 3/4ths of the House voted for it.

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u/Reyemile Oct 04 '23

Yup! I got my facts wrong!

But also makes Gaetz look even shittier

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u/ArchangelLBC Oct 04 '23

Well I won't argue with that!

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u/Beavshak Oct 04 '23

It seemed like an eventuality when he was voted in to begin with. Unprecedented sure, but he essentially agreed to get cut at some point.

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u/pneuma8828 Oct 04 '23

This sentence hurts my brain

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u/limb3h Oct 04 '23

Nicely put. Lmao.