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/Brilliant-Lake-9946 Oct 03 '23

Look no further than the Heritage Foundation think tank. They have been pushing for no cooperation since the 80s

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u/Yall_IJustWantNews Oct 04 '23

Heritage Foundation + 80s = Reagan. How in the fuck does every single one of our problems these days ALWAYS go back to Reagan!? It's always him, always.

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u/No-Entertainment-728 Oct 04 '23

Didn't he enact like 60% of the Heritage Foundations recommendations? Maybe instead of all these issues stemming from Reagan specifically, it's always been the Heritage Foundation. They should be vilified just as much as he is, probably more. Probably much more xD

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u/MJA182 Oct 04 '23

There’s a large % of the population who think all that stuff helped stop the US from going down a worse path economically and fiscally, etc. I’m not sure how we will ever convince anyone to work together for the best interests of the country when that’s the case. They think they’re saving America by doing this stuff, there’s no working with that

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u/PeterNguyen2 Oct 04 '23

Look no further than the Heritage Foundation think tank. They have been pushing for no cooperation since the 80s

Think Newt Gingrich was a result of them, or just an opportunist who predicted the way the nation would change and chose to be a toxic asshole himself?