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Even then â and with most Americans expressing anger at both partiesâ handling of the countryâs problems â the public continues to prefer the Republican Partyâs leadership to that from the White House: 54% say they have more confidence in Republicans in Congress than in President Joe Biden to tackle the major issues facing the country, while 45% have more confidence in Bidenâs leadership, unchanged since this summer.
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https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1712814316288610542
https://twitter.com/MicaSoellnerDC/status/1712851485061435519
Looks like the GOP may try to sneak a Speaker through this weekend with a lot of members out of town.
https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/status/1712848196924219519
McCarthy wonât rule out an attempt to regain the gavelâŚ
this shithead should have pulled a tapper here, âWHO? Give me ONE NAME. WHO thinks JIM FUCKING JORDAN is âuniquely positionedâ??? you fucking potato headâ
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Iâm back and forth between laughing at this shit show and being concerned that we have a completely dysfunctional government during multiple international crises.
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https://twitter.com/MicaSoellnerDC/status/1712856969499873655
McCarthy: Bring it on
McCarthy: OK Iâm done
McCarthy: I mean, maybe Iâd like to try again
McCarthy: No, really, Iâm done
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Desperate times call for outside-the-box thinking.
Arnold Schwarzenegger? Taylor Swift?
How about a power-sharing Triumvirate Speaker consisting of Jim Jordan, Hakeem Jeffries, and ChatGPT4?
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They should get the Speaker they neither want nor deserve.
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Speaker George Santos, one time
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So, basically, weâve got a government shutdown deadline in mid-November. Jim Jordan is going to go to the floor on Tuesday some 50 votes short. If he fails, then who the fuck knows whatâs next? There doesnât seem to be much movement on any sort of bipartisan effort to elect a Speaker, with concessions being made to Dems to get their votes.
Looks pretty likely we end next week with no Speaker, which puts us about three weeks away from a Speakerless shutdown. Even if Jordan gets the gavel, he wants to shutdown the government anyway.
The likelihood of an extended shutdown seems quite high, and Republicans will own it. This could be a pretty big flashpoint in the unwinding of the current political meta. I think itâs become pretty clear that our society doesnât really react to anything until people feel the pain directly, and this could be that type of event and it could cause some pushback on the extremists in the GOP and have a big impact on primaries in 2024.
Or maybe they figure out a path forward with duct tape and keep the shitshow rolling.
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