House Speaker?

[RumTumTugger]

what did he have to promise them?

One was 2 seats on the rules committee, seats in other committees and if one of those who switched lowered from 5 members to 1 the ability to call McCarthy's speaker ship into question if they feel he is not doing what they want.

[Sparko]

One was 2 seats on the rules committee, seats in other committees and if one of those who switched lowered from 5 members to 1 the ability to call McCarthy's speaker ship into question if they feel he is not doing what they want.

If he offered them free bacon for a year he would be speaker already.

[rogue06]

I get the concerns about whatever-you-ask-for funding of Ukraine. I just hope the funding doesn't go to zero.

Incredibly doubtful. But a little oversight sure would be nice.

[RumTumTugger]

13th vote happening now. On a Friday.

What is engulfing though though the only nominees were McCarthy and Jeffries this.

[firstfloor]

Bob Good, one of the final five, talked on Politico - Playbook Deep Dive.

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) and his allies are trying to end Kevin McCarthy’s reign as leader of the House Republicans. Good is one of five Republicans in the far-right Freedom Caucus vowing to block McCarthy’s path to the 218 votes needed to become Speaker of the House. The two have a history.

In 2020, Good was running for Congress to represent Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. Incidentally, also home to the race between James Madison and James Monroe to be the district’s first representative in Congress. Madison won. While Good was running for Congress, Kevin McCarthy tried to consolidate power in the Republican House conference on his way to becoming Speaker. During his campaign, Good knocked out one of McCarthy’s loyal member’s at the GOP nominating convention. At a private meeting recently, Good and McCarthy had a heated exchange about events at the time.

On this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Playbook co-author Rachael Bade went to the Hill to meet Good at his office and dig for details on the history of his relationship with McCarthy and whom Good and his allies intended to support for Speaker instead.

[shunyadragon]

I can't help but compare McCarthy wanting to keep on going, no matter what, with the recently deceased Benedict XVI who stepped aside for what he believed was best for the RCC.

McCarthy has by far most of the votes and support. It is the extreme radical 'election deniers' that holding up the party/

[Sparko]

McCarthy has by far most of the votes and support. It is the extreme radical 'election deniers' that holding up the party/

[rogue06]

McCarthy has by far most of the votes and support. It is the extreme radical 'election deniers' that holding up the party/

Looks like McCarthy is making headway...

McCarthy: 213
Jeffries: 211
Other: 7
Present: 0

4 were absent.

It would appear that your math is off.

213 to 211 is hardly by far most of the votes and support

[Sparko]

It would appear that your math is off.

213 to 211 is hardly by far most of the votes and support

I think he meant in comparison to the other republicans who got votes.

[seanD]

The fact that folks like shuny and race-baiting disinformation networks like MSNBC are outright vilifying the Rep holdouts is all the more reason for them to stand firm to the end. And I have a very sneaky suspicion that if McCarthy squeaks in, the hold-outs are going to vindicated in the coming years.

[NorrinRadd]

After some of the verbal flatus Dan Crenshaw emitted, I no longer feel any disappointment at Tucker referring to him as "Eye-Patch McCain" a while back.

[Cow Poke]

After some of the verbal flatus Dan Crenshaw emitted, I no longer feel any disappointment at Tucker referring to him as "Eye-Patch McCain" a while back.

I still can't quite figure him out.

[seanD]

After some of the verbal flatus Dan Crenshaw emitted, I no longer feel any disappointment at Tucker referring to him as "Eye-Patch McCain" a while back.

Calling them terrorists.

That's about as deranged rhetoric as you'd hear from the left. I'll never take anything that dude ever says again with any credibility.

[Thoughtful Monk]

The fact that folks like shuny and race-baiting disinformation networks like MSNBC are outright vilifying the Rep holdouts is all the more reason for them to stand firm to the end. And I have a very sneaky suspicion that if McCarthy squeaks in, the hold-outs are going to vindicated in the coming years.

Yeah, I don't expect much from Republicans these days. I do hope that a McCarthy speakership will be slightly better than 2 more years of Pelosi or Jeffries.

[seanD]

Yeah, I don't expect much from Republicans these days. I do hope that a McCarthy speakership will be slightly better than 2 more years of Pelosi or Jeffries.

Won't make a difference. There's got to be a reason the entire establishment, both the left and right, are targeting the holdouts like they're absolute political trash. Investigations will go nowhere with McCarthy, which makes sense actually being the times we're in.