The dysfunction among House Republicans is getting worse

[elektra]

No Speaker has ever been hostage to a radical faction within the caucus as Kevin is.

we have never had a better speaker, a more conservative speaker, the fight for power is brutal

 

[Oddball]

The writer refers to the Freedom Caucus as “far right” as if its a bad thing

Which shows the political bias of the article

Well, it's Vox...The nursery for DNC blabbering points.

 

[pknopp]

Of course he had a choice. He could have told the Crazy to go fuck themselves and walked away.

And the next one up would have faced the same demands.

 

[elektra]

It is the Crazy Train

I agree, very popular, very nice to listen to. A hit that everyone loves.

 

[berg80]

Libs cant smell their own stink

What a way with words you have. Care to comment on the subject at hand?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

A Repub friend of mine was licking his chops prior to the midterms. Anticipating Repubs sweeping in to control of the House and exacting revenge on Dems by the way of investigations revealing all sorts of wrongdoing. It hasn't exactly gone as planned with one flop after another. Especially from "weaponization" hunter Gym Jordan.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s compromises with far-right members of his own Republican party to gain leadership of the House in January may be coming back to haunt him.

Last week, 11 members of the far-right GOP contingent known as the House Freedom Caucus expressed their displeasure with McCarthy, voting with Democrats to block a procedural vote on two Republican bills to limit regulations on gas stoves, as well as halting business on the House floor for days in what has been described widely as a revolt.

Seemingly innocuous legislation restricting regulations on gas stoves would, in theory, be popular among Republicans. Scientific findings suggesting that such appliances can cause health problems became a major touchstone in the right’s culture war earlier this year, with Republicans falsely claiming that the government would ban gas stoves.

Those bills, however, became collateral damage, at least for now, in the ongoing fight between McCarthy and the far-right wing of the Republican party — a fight that has threatened to boil over since McCarthy and the White House managed to avoid a cataclysmic national default with their debt limit deal late last month. With House Republicans in disarray, leadership announced it would meet Monday to attempt to move forward with planned votes.

Ultimately, the drama isn’t just about a vote to advance legislation on gas stoves; it’s a referendum on McCarthy’s leadership, and whether he can keep his conference on his side to maintain his position and pass critical legislation as the end of the government’s fiscal year draws nearer.

The dysfunction among House Republicans is getting worse

A mutiny last week among the GOP’s far-right faction spells trouble for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and everyone else.

www.vox.com

Once again, stay off the kook sites.

 

[Billiejeens]

Sorry, I couldn't care less what you think.

Why?

 

[berg80]

And the next one up would have faced the same demands.

Which doesn't change the fact that McCarthy could have maintained some self respect and walked away.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Sorry, I couldn't care less what you think.

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You're here, trying as hard as you can to inflame those who disagree with you.

I'd say that indicates that you do, indeed, care.

.

 

[berg80]

Once again, stay off the kook sites.

Impugning the source is common practice among those you can't refute what they say.

 

[Billiejeens]

Once again, stay off the kook sites.

That's a problem for Berg because he is personally such a kook that average kook sites seem right of center to him.
He is unable to distinguish the level of spin of what he reads.

 

[pknopp]

Which doesn't change the fact that McCarthy could have maintained some self respect and walked away.

So many seem to not understand the idea of compromise in politics. It's what has led us to the extreme's we see today.

 

[Mac-7]

What a way with words you have. Care to comment on the subject at hand?

I think the struggle is between repubs who want to let democrats lead while they follow (mccarthy) and the Freedom Caucus who want to change the direction the country is going

All of which is good news for business as usual in washington

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

It is the Crazy Train

Yes! The people that want lower taxes, less bloated government and less government meddling in Americans lives are on the crazy train and the people who can’t define what a woman is, believe in unlimited genders and use racism to define everything they do are on the same train.

 

[Oddball]

So many seem to not understand the idea of compromise in politics. It's what has led us to the extreme's we see today.

Compromise put us here....Now "extreme" is having the common sense to reverse course form the shit show all the "compromise" got us into.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Impugning the source is common practice among those you can't refute what they say.

Refute? I just laugh at it.

 

[pknopp]

Compromise put us here....Now "extreme" is having the common sense to reverse course form the shit show all the "compromise" got us into.

That one party seems to feel they have a mandate to do whatever they want when they get power is why no party ever holds power very long.

 

[rightwinger]

Yes! The people that want lower taxes, less bloated government and less government meddling in Americans lives are on the crazy train and the people who can’t define what a woman is, believe in unlimited genders and use racism to define everything they do are on the same train.

The people who believe in stolen elections, rampant pedophilia, grooming children, fake birth certificates, COVID is a hoax, vaccines will kill you, there is no global warming….


Crazy Train

 

[Oddball]

That one party seems to feel they have a mandate to do whatever they want when they get power is why no party ever holds power very long.

When the republicans do that, you come get me.

 

[berg80]

That's a problem for Berg because he is personally such a kook that average kook sites seem right of center to him.
He is unable to distinguish the level of spin of what he reads.

See post #30.