McCarthy elected Speaker.

[Missourian]

12:30 Eastern time. 1-7-2023

15 rounds of voting.

Big win for the Freedom Caucus.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Good. Now they can get on with hurting the swamp cartel as much as possible.

 

[Missourian]

428 votes cast

McCarthy 216
Jeffries 212
Present 6

 

[BluesLegend]

Good. Now they can get on with hurting the swamp cartel as much as possible.

The DC swamp is NOT happy. It's clear the 20 will be a major thorn in their side. That's why they crammed through all that spending in December.

 

[JGalt]

Well good. Now the 118th Congress can get back to work looting the American people and sending it to Ukraine.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

12:30 Eastern time. 1-7-2023

15 rounds of voting.

Big win for the Freedom Caucus.

Yeaaaa!
Elected speaker as second biggest loser in American history.

 

[BluesLegend]

428 votes cast

McCarthy 216
Jeffries 212
Present 6

So he's speaker of less than half of America.

 

[Missourian]

12:38 am Eastern the vote is official.

McCarthy is Speaker of the House.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Good. Now they can get on with hurting the swamp cartel as much as possible.

If they didn’t hurt themselves too badly that is.

 

[BluesLegend]

Yeaaaa!
Elected speaker as second biggest loser in American history.

He's the boss of you, deal with it.

 

[strollingbones]

 

[Hutch Starskey]

He's the boss of you, deal with it.

Not by the likes of him.

 

[Missourian]

That's what I'm thinking about them calling all these folks to "escort the Speaker to the chair".

 

[Missourian]

Here Are the Concessions Kevin McCarthy Reportedly Made to the Freedom Caucus for Speaker Votes

Kevin McCarthy reportedly made numerous concessions to the Freedom Caucus, which most of the holdouts belong to.

www.mediaite.com

 

[shockedcanadian]

12:30 Eastern time. 1-7-2023

15 rounds of voting.

Big win for the Freedom Caucus.

Well that was quick.

 

[Missourian]

"Speaker in name only" is trending

 

[Doc7505]

So he's speaker of less than half of America.

Once again Americans can walk freely through the halls of Congress. Nancy and her merry Maoist/DSA Democrats deprived American citizens the access to the Peoples house for two years.
I couldn't help but notice that not one Maoist Democrat clapped or acknowledged any words spoken by Kevin McCarthy.

 

[Natural Citizen]

 

[DudleySmith]

Once again Americans can walk freely through the halls of Congress. Nancy and her merry Maoist/DSA Democrats deprived American citizens the access to the Peoples house for two years.
I couldn't help but notice that not one Maoist Democrat clapped or acknowledged any words spoken by Kevin McCarthy.

Well, they're still angry that Xi wasn't there to take charge.

 

[MisterBeale]

12:30 Eastern time. 1-7-2023

15 rounds of voting.

Big win for the Freedom Caucus.

What I don't get, is, through this entire ordeal, I hadn't watched any TEE VEE, or listened to the radio at all.


I did read a few articles, but I got the sense, from members here on the forum, that left MSM media, was telling the left, that it was the MAGA crowed that was doing the division.

I sort of got the sense that it was the Ron Paul, hard libertarian types that had caused all this ruckus.

I have long sought to have the Tea Party sub-forum re-named the freedom caucus sub-forum, if it had been. . . a lot of threads would have been put there, and, we might have been seeing a lot of threads get put that way, if that change could be made.

Too bad we don't have a permanent admin on staff. Getting those types of changes are hard. We get a sub-forum title, it is with us for a decade. lol