The Senate was scheduled to vote at midday, and House leaders announced they would act Thursday evening, a little more than 24 hours before funding for a handful of government agencies was slated to lapse.
Even the most wingnutty Repubs have been so embarrassed by all the drama that they don't want a shutdown--and see it as a good way to lose the House--but they can't get together on a GOP bill and they've created this monster that won't allow them to pass a clean CR with Dem votes. Total clusterfuck.
Generic political dysfunction and not one chamber of Congress being controlled by a party whose members call each other "whores" and whine to the press that they're "ungovernable."
The story mentions "the ouster of the House Speaker" but the word "Republican" does not appear anywhere in the text.
Republicans usually try to blunt some of the blowback they get when they shut down the government by passing a resolution that says military service members still get paid but they can’t do that, or keep national parks open or whatever, if nobody has the power to bring bills to the floor. #gop#GOPinDisarray
FWIW, Patrick McHenry is very right-wing but he is also one of only 72 House Republicans who did not vote against certifying the 2020 election results. Giving him the full powers of the Speakership 4 weeks before the government shuts down may be the best option. #gop#gopindisarray#speaker
A vote for Jim Jordan is almost certainly a vote for a shutdown in like 30 days. That should probably be mentioned in some of the reporting on this shitshow. #speaker#gopindisarray#gop#jimjordan
There were more than 5 right-wing wackadoodles actively hoping for a shutdown so unless they empower McHenry to move legislation and a Speaker pro tem could somehow negotiate at least a CR that's reconcilable with the Senate's, they just have to keep voting down every nominee for a few more weeks to get their wish.
Offer 50 Dem votes for a GOP Speaker who voted to certify the election and will bring Ukraine/ Israel aid to the floor, negotiate a budget that can be reconciled w/ the Senate’s and put the impeachment inquiry to a vote. Do it publicly.
It’s good politics and you never know. There are a lot of GOP reps who are desperately looking for a lifeline. #GOPinDisarray
I'd be enjoying some serious Schadenfreude over the GOP's complete and utter dysfunction if not for a looming shutdown, vital foreign aid being blocked and the fact that it makes this country look ridiculous. It's really quite destructive. #gop#gopindisarray#maga
Nate Cohn portrays the Speaker race as one between Jordan representing the "ultraconservative" "Trumpist governing elite" and the guy who calls himself "David Duke without baggage," who is just a "conservative congressman from Louisiana" representing the "party’s traditional Washington governing elite."
There isn't anyone under consideration who isn't a far-right extremist but you'd never know that from the piece.
So far, Republicans are choosing between a belligerent compulsive liar who covered up sexual abuse of minors and a guy who self-identifies as “David Duke without the baggage” for Speaker. Quite a party. #GOPinDisarray#gop
Mike Pence called McCarthy's ouster "performance art" and predicted that at the end of the day, he'll be re-elected Speaker, which would be the funniest outcome at least. #gopindisarray
The media love an intra-party civil war, and I get that. But you'd think some reporter might interrogate why McCarthy, who has close to 200 reps who are willing to govern, isn't cutting a deal with Jeffries
The answer is that he's terrified of Trump, the RW media and his base. That's interesting!
Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill, Moving to Avert Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
The Senate was scheduled to vote at midday, and House leaders announced they would act Thursday evening, a little more than 24 hours before funding for a handful of government agencies was slated to lapse.