Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Clown Car In Full Glory!

Boy the clown car is getting a lot of use.
There is no Speaker of House for the first time in history a speaker was removed, he was dethroned by the clowns now we have to wait to see who will be the next head clown and another history maker.
McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a House vote
NBC News
By Lisa Mascaro and Farnoush Amiri
October 3, 2023

Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos.

McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the “motion to vacate,” drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of the speaker and many Democrats who say he is unworthy of leadership.

Next steps are uncertain, but there is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority.

Stillness fell as the presiding officer gaveled the vote closed, 216-210, saying the office of the speaker “is hereby declared vacant.”
So now we have a headless chicken running around in circles.
As the House fell silent, Gaetz, a top ally of Donald Trump, rose to offer his motion. Gaetz is a leader of the hard-right Republicans who fought in January against McCarthy in his prolonged battle to gain the gavel.

“It’s a sad day,” Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said as debate got underway, urging his colleagues not to plunge the House Republican majority “into chaos.”

But Gaetz shot back during the debate, “Chaos is Speaker McCarthy.”
It took 14 tries to elect a Speaker back January. Now nothing is going to get done until the clown car to find a new leader… and remember the Speaker of the House is thrid in line for the presidency.

1 comment:

  1. See how long nothing gets done in the House.

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