McCarthy for Speaker poll...

[my2¢]

I'm an Independent and it matters neither way to me.

 

[Missourian]

I'd bet a dollar that McCarthy is eventually sworn in as speaker.

But nothing more than that.

I wouldn't take that bet...I also believe he will eventually make enough concessions to secure the votes he needs.

They'll give him 213 or 214 and the ones who absolutely can't force themselves to vote for him will vote present to lower the threshold.

 

[JWBooth]

 

[odanny]

Is anyone gonna vote in your lame poll?

 

[Missourian]

Is anyone gonna vote in your lame poll?

36 people have voted... That's about part for the course.

 

[XponentialChaos]

I figured we would have gridlock with Republicans taking the House.

This isn’t what I had in mind lol.

 

[Richard-H]

If McCarthy had any balls -

1. As a demonstration he would get about 7 of his supporters to vote 'present' on the next vote. Thereby lowering the total number of GOP votes to 215.

2. He would make it clear to the MAGA holdouts that he would no longer honor any of the concessions that he previously that made to them.

3. He would demand that on the next vote, each and everyone of them vote for him.

4. If they did not vote for him, on the vote after that, he'd get about 30 of his supporters to vote 'present' on the next vote, resulting in Hakeem Jeffries winning the speakership.

5. He would also make it clear that the MAGA holdouts would be held responsible for the GOP losing the speakership.

Of course, as we all know McCarthy has no balls, he's another spineless GOP weenie. Doing what I suggest about would take guts and it would show true leadership - somethings that we can be sure will never be found in the GOP.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

 

[Rigby5]

can't govern themselves.. You mean like how all the elite demonrats support murdering children in the womb , so everyone, including the R party, should be inspired by such unity?

??

The Founders agree with "murdering children in the womb", so how can anyone call themselves "conservative" and want to change that?
Abortion of any time or type was completely legal until 1880 or so.

 

[skye]

I voted....Conservative and No

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

What I have found over the years is that the very least intelligent posters are incapable of understanding politics on any level more than as a team sport, and so project their simple-mindedness upon others by assuming they are just the same.

Indeed. They are voting for a reason.

I'll tell you what, no Swamp Bills are getting passed currently . Several days is no biggy to get such an important thing right, and expecting everyone to just fall in line does not fly anymore.

These 20 Reps are actually doing their job by representing their constituents and I am so pleased my Rep is part of the 20.

Letter from Bob Good on Tuesday which munkle posted follows. It reads somewhat like the Declaration of Independence...

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Bob Good for Congress ·
Today, I will be working with my Republican colleagues to elect the best conservative Speaker to lead our conference in doing the things voters across America elected us to do back on November 8. That will not be Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

During my first race for Congress leading up to the 2020 election, I was urged by hundreds of voters in Virginia's 5th District to oppose Kevin McCarthy for Republican leader. However, after being elected, I was surprised to see the entire Republican Conference vote by acclamation to confirm McCarthy for leader.

During the 2020 new member orientation, my Republican freshmen class members and I were told by Minority Leader McCarthy that we use every procedural tool at our disposal to thwart the radical Democrat agenda. Sadly, that did not happen, as we got rolled by the majority and the American people suffered under the most extreme leftist policies ever enacted by the Democrat majority.

I continued to hear from hundreds of constituents over the past two years, urging me not to support McCarthy for Speaker if we took the majority. I responded in townhall events and media interviews that I would judge him by what he did during my first two years in Congress. I would assess his efforts to truly fight the Democrat agenda, his commitment to true conservative principles, and his willingness to change how Congress operates to empower regular members.

Unfortunately, Kevin McCarthy did nothing to earn my support these past two years as minority leader when he had the near-exclusive opportunity to audition for the Speaker position. He ignored our pleas to make a motion to "vacate the chair", when Nancy Pelosi was at her weakest moments with the Progressive Caucus and the "Squad" threatening her from her most extreme Left flank.

McCarthy did not effectively fight unconstitutional proxy voting, mask requirements, or metal detectors for members to pass thru when going to the House chamber to represent their constituents. He resisted our efforts to require recorded roll-call votes on hundreds of pieces of legislation spending billions of dollars when the Democrats attempted to pass them in an empty chamber by "unanimous consent" voice vote.

McCarthy fought our initial efforts to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position after she voted to impeach President Trump and began to express public views that were out of step with Republican voters. He did not support removing her from leadership until she later publicly embarrassed him at a press conference.

McCarthy never marshaled Republican members to defeat bills passed by Democrats under "suspension of the rules", and instead helped provide the two-thirds majority needed to pass dozens of these bills "en bloc". He did not support our efforts to use our rare minority leverage to defeat so-called "must pass" National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bills when Republican votes were needed to pass them. No matter how much they weakened our military with a dangerous woke focus on leftist priorities that diminished military readiness, he personally voted for them four times despite conservatives' pleas to defeat them.

McCarthy falsely promised that Republicans would not provide the votes to pass the $1.2 trillion phony infrastructure bill, and then did nothing to penalize the 13 Republicans who voted for it.
McCarthy's repeated mantra when conservatives urged him to fight the Democrat agenda was "we have a plan". But no plan materialized over the past two years.

McCarthy represents a Republican swamp system that supports and promotes moderates for leadership positions and prime committee assignments, and the exclusion of conservatives. He spent millions of dollars to defeat conservative candidates in the recent 2022 primary races, against the will of the Republican voters in those districts. This is money that should have been utilized to elect more Republicans in the general election.

The Speaker vote is about more than defeating Kevin McCarthy and electing a better leader today. This is about striking a blow against the uni-party swamp cartel, and a Republican system that is hostile to conservatives, resents its base voters, and resists empowering individual members in order to retain power in the hands of an elite few.

We must elect a Speaker who will utilize the power of the purse as leverage to restore fiscal sanity and defund the government tyranny we campaign against. We must elect a Speaker who will exercise effective oversight against the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens. We must elect a Speaker who will pursue a true conservative policy agenda.

We must change how Congress works by reforming our rules to only bring legislation to the Floor that is supported by a majority of the majority (Republicans), let members elect our committee chairmen, require legislation to go thru committees of jurisdiction, have single-issue legislation, permit members to make amendments on the Floor, provide a reasonable amount of time to review legislation before voting on it, require recorded votes, end the practice of earmarks that are utilized to buy votes, and restore accountability for the Speaker by reinstating the motion to vacate the chair.

Don't fall for the orchestrated disinformation campaign that falsely asserts that opposing McCarthy is somehow helping Democrats, or that he is the only person capable of leading our conference. Nothing helps the Democrats more than maintaining the status quo and electing a Speaker who will not stand up to their agenda. This is demonstrated by past history when McCarthy was majority leader in 2017 and 2018, and every major spending package he helped pass was done so with a majority of Democrat support, instead of Republicans.

It is clear that Kevin McCarthy cannot get the needed 218 votes to become Speaker. We can elect a strong leader who represents the conservative center of the Republican conference and the voters who elected us, and who can lead us in the fight to stop the Biden-Schumer agenda.

It is worth investing a few hours, a few days, or whatever it takes, to elect the right leader for our party and for the country.

We should not be in a hurry to make a bad decision.

We must not accept the false choice that it is either McCarthy or someone worse. We know what we will get with McCarthy, and that is more of the same that is failing the country.

All Republican members of Congress are hearing the same thing from their voters in their districts: "Don't vote for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker." For the good of the Republican Conference, for the good of the Congress, and for the good of the country, let's hope they will listen to them and vote for transformational change.

For God and Country,
Bob

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Contact your Rep here and let them know what you think (top right, enter your zipcode). Now is the time, and if you took this poll like I did, you have time to right a quick note...

Representatives | house.gov

www.house.gov

 

[Calypso Jones]

Oh i would love to see the apoplexy following this!!!

 

[Oddball]

If McCarthy had any balls -

1. As a demonstration he would get about 7 of his supporters to vote 'present' on the next vote. Thereby lowering the total number of GOP votes to 215.

2. He would make it clear to the MAGA holdouts that he would no longer honor any of the concessions that he previously that made to them.

3. He would demand that on the next vote, each and everyone of them vote for him.

4. If they did not vote for him, on the vote after that, he'd get about 30 of his supporters to vote 'present' on the next vote, resulting in Hakeem Jeffries winning the speakership.

5. He would also make it clear that the MAGA holdouts would be held responsible for the GOP losing the speakership.

Of course, as we all know McCarthy has no balls, he's another spineless GOP weenie. Doing what I suggest about would take guts and it would show true leadership - somethings that we can be sure will never be found in the GOP.

They're not all "MAGA" holdouts, goofball....McCarthy blew off and/or lied to most of the people who are unwilling to vote for him under any circumstance.

He shit in his own mess kit and can suck on it.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Ironic how the left is all for protecting the MINORITY...minority trans, minority homosexuals, minority pedophiles, minority illegals...got to protect their rights and make sure they get a fair shake..........but not conservative minorities. Not the group they claim is a minority and according to them is decreasing...christians...not the 20 minority conservatives in the house, not the alleged claimed minority of prolifers.

 

[Missourian]

10 minutes left.

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Calypso Jones]