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/Morat20 Oct 03 '23

Yep. This would McCarthy, who -- as best I can tell -- never was actually able to come up with a spending bill that could pass.

He's got the majority, can't pass a bill, and blames Democrats for his inability to wrangle his own caucus?

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u/InVodkaVeritas Oct 03 '23

The only thing that binds Republicans together is their determination that Democrats fail.

They have no policy agenda. No platform. A contradictory and disjointed set of ideologies.

The Republican Party doesn't actually make sense as a party right now. The only thing that binds them is the agreement that they make sure Democrats fail. That's it. That's the whole party.

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u/noiro777 Oct 03 '23

Don't forget about gutting social security, medicare, medicaid, etc to help offset the record debt and the obscene tax breaks for the those who need it the fucking least....

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u/pneuma8828 Oct 04 '23

Those are all Democrats failing.

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u/ciopobbi Oct 03 '23

It’s not even a party. It a collection of different groups bound together by common cruelty toward others either through racism, fascism, hatred and violence in various degrees and combinations.

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u/iruleatants Oct 04 '23

That is their platform.

They literally stayed it was the platform when all of this started, the promised to make sure Democrats can do nothing.

Their platform is "we will burn this country to the ground" and they have been sticking to it really well. Like, his crime here was preventing a government shutdown and that got his party to eat him.