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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #50 on: January 07, 2023, 07:48:11 AM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 07, 2023, 02:25:50 AM
McCarthy is in, though it did require him to make some concessions.

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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #51 on: January 07, 2023, 08:14:31 AM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 07, 2023, 02:25:50 AM
McCarthy is in, though it did require him to make some concessions.
I wonder what concessions were forced that they didn't think were necessary last week?  I don't think I am expecting much from this Speaker.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #52 on: January 07, 2023, 08:31:31 AM »
Apparently Mike Rogers tried to go after Matt Gaetz on the House floor yesterday and had to be restrained.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-rogers-lunges-matt-gaetz-house-speaker-voting-members-forced-intervene-video

McCarthy, in his remarks after accepting the speakership, said that the Capitol is going to reopen to Americans. Republicans cheered, Democrats apparently just sat there.

I wonder if they would have cheered had he said that he was going to support "mostly peaceful protests" in Democratic-led crime hives, er..., cities across the US?
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #53 on: January 07, 2023, 08:55:13 AM »
From what I've heard, with a few exceptions the "concessions" should have been part of any GOP speaker's plan from the beginning. That they weren't is a bit unsettling.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #54 on: January 07, 2023, 09:16:06 AM »
I had a live feed of the election going last night when this occurred.  Quite the foofaraw among those running the show.  I gave up and went to bed before a promised video replay of the event was shown.  It was taking forever to get the replay queued up.
Looking at the video in the Fox News story, it looks more like Rep. Rogers simply leaned in to say something to McCarthy.  In my opinion, there was no real "lunge" as has been reported.  Rep. Hudson, R-N.C, restraining Rogers appeared to me to be an overreaction on Hudson's part and really unnecessary.
More stupid political theater.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #55 on: January 07, 2023, 09:18:58 AM »
"Rogers simply leaned in to say something to McCarthy."

Yeah, I watched the video a couple of times on Fox, and unless something happened AFTER the cameras cut away, it sounds as if it's being over hyped.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #56 on: January 07, 2023, 09:27:42 AM »
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #57 on: January 07, 2023, 10:24:00 AM »
Quote from: RocketMan on January 07, 2023, 09:16:06 AM
I had a live feed of the election going last night when this occurred.  Quite the foofaraw among those running the show.

A foofaraw? Not a fracas or a row?
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #58 on: January 07, 2023, 11:14:15 AM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 07, 2023, 10:24:00 AM
A foofaraw? Not a fracas or a row?

I think both a fracas and a row require a bit more screaming and yelling.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #59 on: January 07, 2023, 11:44:59 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 06, 2023, 10:53:57 AM
I'm changing my vote.  They should elect Byron Donalds immediately.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #60 on: January 07, 2023, 11:48:06 AM »
Here's Omar with a predicable tweet

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    McCarthy just agreed to a deal with far right insurrectionists that would hold the entire US and global economy hostage to extreme cuts to everything from housing to education, healthcare, Social Security and Medicare.

    Hard to overstate how dangerous this is.

    — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 6, 2023
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/01/07/ilhan-omar-angry-tweets-and-gets-hilariously-dogpiled/
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #61 on: January 07, 2023, 12:31:41 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 07, 2023, 10:24:00 AM
A foofaraw? Not a fracas or a row?
Hey, can we just make it an insurrection?

I mean, since everything Republicans/conservatives say, think, or do (or don't say, think, or do) is racist, we ought to be able to define everything they say, think, or do as an insurrection as well.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #62 on: January 07, 2023, 01:21:54 PM »
I can't find it now but one Democrat was so traumatized by the whole speaker mess that he's claiming that Republicans are now going to shoot up the House chamber and target the opposition.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #63 on: January 07, 2023, 05:11:09 PM »
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I can't find it now but one Democrat was so traumatized by the whole speaker mess that he's claiming that Republicans are now going to shoot up the House chamber and target the opposition.

Unfortunately, many members of Congress (of both parties, but it would seem more Democrats than Republicans) should probably never have been allowed to graduate from Kindergarten.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #64 on: January 07, 2023, 05:36:04 PM »
Gun & Gadgets breakdown of the results

https://youtu.be/dk9WzpTeWq0

Apparently the hardliner holdouts were forcing McCarthy to concede on much-needed procedural changes, and an agreement to hold guaranteed votes on several key items unaddressed by provious admininstration.

I'm much more at ease with the holdouts. Honestly, I'm a little ticked at how few members were holding firm now that I know what motivated it.

Brad
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #65 on: January 07, 2023, 06:22:14 PM »
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #66 on: January 07, 2023, 06:45:52 PM »
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I can't find it now but one Democrat was so traumatized by the whole speaker mess that he's claiming that Republicans are now going to shoot up the House chamber and target the opposition.

I think it was two female legislators: Pramila Jayapal and Eric Swalwell.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #67 on: January 07, 2023, 08:41:06 PM »
Quote from: Unisaw on January 07, 2023, 06:45:52 PM
I think it was two female legislators: Pramila Jayapal and Eric Swalwell.

Eric He Who Sleeps With Chinese Spies Swalwell.
If he was an R the Ds and the MSM would be screaming for his removal and imprisonment.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #68 on: January 07, 2023, 10:27:32 PM »
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Eric He Who Sleeps With Chinese Spies Swalwell.
If he was an R the Ds and the MSM would be screaming for his removal and imprisonment.

"Well, okay, so he's an idiot and maybe a traitor. But he's OUR idiot and maybe traitor."
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #69 on: January 07, 2023, 10:51:01 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on January 07, 2023, 10:27:32 PM
"Well, okay, so he's an idiot and maybe a traitor. But he's OUR idiot and maybe traitor."

Being from the America-hating side of things, they won't ever consider him to be a "traitor".  =(  :facepalm:
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #70 on: January 07, 2023, 11:15:04 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 07, 2023, 02:25:50 AM
McCarthy is in, though it did require him to make some concessions.

The way I understand it, he pretty much gave up the house. I bet in 60 days they will be voting for a new speaker.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #71 on: January 08, 2023, 03:15:53 PM »
Everything changes once you know what McCarthy and Gaetz were actually saying
https://twitter.com/BadLipReading/status/1611934183110365184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #72 on: January 08, 2023, 03:26:20 PM »
OK, that was really weird.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #73 on: January 08, 2023, 03:27:50 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on January 07, 2023, 05:11:09 PM
Unfortunately, many members of Congress (of both parties, but it would seem more Democrats than Republicans) should probably never have been allowed to graduate from Kindergarten.

Uhm... excuse me, but from what I've seen over the past couple of years, they are currently IN kindergarten.

The special kind of kindergarten for complete and total f*expletive deleted*tards.
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Re: Congressional Charlie Foxtrot
« Reply #74 on: January 08, 2023, 03:28:43 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on January 08, 2023, 03:27:50 PM
Uhm... excuse me, but from what I've seen over the past couple of years, they are currently IN kindergarten.

The special kind of kindergarten for complete and total f*expletive deleted*tards.

They're special
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