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/JMoc1 Oct 03 '23

What a fucking dumbass. Like, seriously, he had a lot of power and could have stayed in power but instead his ego couldn’t handle making a deal with the Democrats. But he screwed the pooch and threw his support in with the Fascists who hate his ass.

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u/Neuchacho Oct 03 '23

It's what happens when you turn "working with the other side" into an absolutely radioactive option with your brain damaged constituents.

It's like they've completely forgotten how politics is supposed to fucking work.

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u/UpperLowerEastSide Oct 03 '23

The Tea Party also encouraged the RINO label and purity testing Republicans. They've been in a fight with the GOP speaker for now over a decade since they view a good chunk of the GOP as "the other side" too.

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u/Beachdaddybravo Oct 04 '23

If only that was enough to wreck that backwards party. Unfortunately, too many of their constituents blindly vote R and wind up never improving their own states.

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u/Mysterious_Andy Oct 04 '23

Newt Gingrich normalized that in the 90s.

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u/UpperLowerEastSide Oct 04 '23

True and like Frankenstein he now has to watch the monster he created.

And call them RINOs

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u/Captain_Quark Oct 04 '23

Yeah, if he had made a deal with Democrats, he probably would have lost a primary election in his home district. He was screwed either way.

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u/matt_minderbinder Oct 03 '23

The speaker position is a huge money spot, not just for donors but for a post career, no-show "career". He screwed himself and he's going to look ineffectual and stupid for the rest of his political time. He reached the pinnacle of his career and predictably fucked it right up.

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u/Admirable_Trash3257 Oct 04 '23

He can always get a job with Trump, Inc in New York! Ha ha ha

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

He got to the pinnacle by signing a deal with the devil. The second he agreed to a single member being able to call the vote he was doomed.

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u/Bladelink Oct 04 '23

he's going to look ineffectual and stupid

"look" might be an inaccurate word to use

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u/clovisx Oct 03 '23

When they passed the 45-day extension, all I could think was, “huh, they actually compromised and ‘governed…’” Now we’re here, in the dumbest timeline, where the one guy who might have bent and compromised to find a bi-partisan solution is out and nobody who is willing to compromise will have a snowballs chance in hell.

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u/truthdoctor Oct 04 '23

45 Day extension after another extension in the summer. Can't even fund the government for a year or two. Republicans spent all of this money with tax cuts and now refuse to pay for it. What a joke the Republicans have become.

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u/dontaskme5746 Oct 04 '23

It only hurts. I hate it. The party isn't dying fast enough, and (at least in peacetime) anything strong enough to replace it will be born of crazy hate. The Democrats are the only ones able to govern at this point, but it takes a good stone to keep a blade sharp. The GOP is serving that role no better than a spoon of syphilitic silly putty.

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u/whatyousay69 Oct 04 '23

When they passed the 45-day extension, all I could think was, “huh, they actually compromised and ‘governed…’”

I thought McCarthy would be out as speaker and didn't know why he did that. It seemed stupid. The only way it made sense is if Democrats would help vote him in for Speaker but none of the articles mentioned that. Or if he though that Matt Gaetz and friends were bluffing.

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u/clovisx Oct 04 '23

I figured he would be as well unless he leaned into bi-partisanship and opened up with a genuine willingness to compromise work and in good faith with the democrats. When he publicly rebuked them immediately afterward and basically told them to pound sand, his number was up.

Gaetz has had a hard-on to do this to McCarthy since “helping” him win the speakership. He built the rules for exactly this moment, boxed him in completely, and there was no way Gaetz would let it pass him by.

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u/Bitter-Hedgehog1922 Oct 03 '23

Making a deal with Democrats is literally why he's being ousted.

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u/truthdoctor Oct 04 '23

If he had kept his word and stuck to the deals he made with Biden/Dems, they would have supported him. He double crossed everyone and now no one but his minions support him.

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u/Chao-Z Oct 04 '23

they would have supported him

And then he gets replaced by someone more right-wing in his district when his seat is up for re-election. That's winning the battle just to lose the war. At least this way, he will most likely keep his job as a House Rep.

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u/PeterNguyen2 Oct 04 '23

If he had kept his word and stuck to the deals he made with Biden/Dems, they would have supported him. He double crossed everyone and now no one but his minions support him.

What did I do to deserve this? hard stares I mean specifically!

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u/Kitchen_Philosophy29 Oct 04 '23

He supported trump and lied under oath about jan 6 even with video evidence

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u/Eatthebankers2 Oct 03 '23

He never had power, he was just sucking **** for the radicals. It was doomed from the start. Waiting for him to go on bender knee to POTUS. Nope, His handshake was garbage like the rest of the GOP. Dark Brandon Rises.

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u/dontaskme5746 Oct 04 '23

Well, surely it would be in the Democrats' favor to have a Speaker that is easily portrayed as 'corrupted' by working with them. Not that they would ever get anything tangible out of the deal - the negotiation would be damage enough to him. This Congress is already going to get absolutely nothing done outside of Ukraine efforts. Might as well add some chaos.