Wow, so if a couple more Republicans either retire or die… control of the house could switch parties. I did not have “McCarthy backbone underflow exception” on my bingo card for last year lol
I’d say it’s typical actually for a reactionary. The goal for him and his ilk is power, not policy. If he can’t have power, he doesn’t care.
They still have a 219-213 majority. So a couple retiring or dying wouldn’t do the trick. If 3 of them switched parties though, that would be nuts.
Huh, for some reason I thought there was a few more seats that had either shifted around or been vacated, but I just re-checked and it seems there’s not. Thank you for the correction.
Don’t get any hopes up.
The last time Democrats had a supermajority, their biggest legislative achievement was a health care band-aid dreamed up by the ultra conservative heritage foundation designed to ensure big health insurance keeps profiting off sickness and death, and passed originally by Republican Governor Mitt Romney. And there are still uninsured Americans, and people being economically destroyed despite having supposed health coverage.
Republicans are the greater villains, and I vote for Democrats solely on that basis of least bad harm reduction, but lets not pretend either party is the people’s champion, or at all interested in addressing our disgusting, embarrassing, massive socioeconomic inequity.
We have the villain party®, the feckless wet noodle party(D), and within the feckless wet noodle party, all of about 2-5 people between both chambers of Congress who openly advocate for policy that would actually do good for most of the citizenry. And those 2-5 are despised by both parties proper far more than those parties hate one another.
Oh I 100% agree. If Republicans weren’t the only other option, I would never vote for any Democrat who wasn’t a staunch progressive. But we’re trapped in a two party system that’s trying to kill us.
So Democrats would go back to having a majority in the house and just enough Democratic senators voting with Republicans.
Control of the house is important in the context of the transfer of power, or the continuation of the current administration if reelected. I would absolutely expect Johnson (the current speaker) to do something fucky - especially if Trump is a candidate in the general, and isn’t disqualified (as he should be automatically (A14S3).
Anything that makes Matt Gaetz angry is my favorite thing
So, Mr. Gaetz, if you really feel that House Speaker Pelosi was better, maybe it’s time to let the adults in the room get governing? You know, like Mr. Jeffries and his crew?
That way, you and the rest of the Republicans can get back to your whiny corner without any worry of responsibility?
Did you see that post about the Taliban being frustrated with needing to govern instead of running around with the boys? The Republicans in Congress sure do sound awfully similar.
Running a country is just so much work, ya know?
But McCarthy’s departure was notable for one amusing, and politically significant reason. With the end of his tenure as the representative from California’s 20th Congressional District, McCarthy—in what appears to be a fit of pique—screwed over the House Republican Caucus that he had led until his unceremonious removal from the speakership last fall. By choosing to quit at the end of 2023, McCarthy took with him the one thing he had to offer his fellow partisans: protection for their rapidly dwindling majority.
i missed this bit about them losing the majority. it just sounded like ‘chaos as usual’.
Matt Gaetz should be ecstatic about this.
The GOP will never throw him over now, no matter how many teenagers he rapes.
I mean. Him being a pedophile and a pimp was always a plus as far as republicans were concerned.
Have to wonder how effective he’ll be as a lobbyist at the moment.
