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Meanwhile, the hyper-partisans are pondering an official move to oust McCarthy... despite almost certainly not having the votes to get anyone else appointed. There is probably just one other person that could with the House Speaker vote, the hyper-partisans could stroke out and vote for Dem. Jeffries out of unimaginable levels of spite.

Otherwise, there is no Republicans that has the support that wouldn't require 25+ ballots to get to.
 
The GOP have pushed a 30-day continuation bill in committee through and look to put it to the floor. It pulls back from an agreement between Biden and McCarthy and likely doesn't have enough GOP votes to pass, because the notable spending cuts and other poison pills aren't enough for the hyper-partisans in the GOP.
 
Matt Gaetz is looking at this bill like an underage girl in Florida and thinking "how can I fuck this?"
 
Donald will be perfectly happy to order Matt Gaetz to be nominated to replace Kevin, if for no other reason than to further normalize their shared perversions.
 
Quite a sense of absurdity, when passing a stop gap spending bill is considered a "win" for the Democrats. The GOP is just poison these days.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Quite a sense of absurdity, when passing a stop gap spending bill is considered a "win" for the Democrats. The GOP is just poison these days.
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It's not the end of the game by a long shot, but the ball was moved down the field, and the Democrats have a first down at the 45 yard line. The far right threatened any member of the GOP caucus with fire and brimstone if even one of them voted in favor of keeping the government open. Well, 126 Republicans voted for the resolution, and 90 voted against. We'll see how they try to spin this on the Sunday talk shows, but the truth is, they blinked.
 
And on ABC this morning, the ass sore himself defending his actions that didn't accomplish anything.
 
Rep. Matt Gaetz (*-FL) has decided to file a motion to toss out McCarthy.

But one man can't toss out McCarthy. Takes a majority, though I can't tell if that means a majority present (ie the Dems could just vote present) or a majority of voters (Dems would have to choose).
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Gaetz and Reps. Eli Crane and Bob Good have all said they will vote yes on the motion, while Rep. Andy Biggs tells CNN he’s “favorably disposed” to vote for it and Rep. Tim Burchett says his “conscience” is telling him to “vote him out” but he’s still torn.
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So kind of five people. It probably wouldn't be hard for a couple Dems to push it over the top, but the Democrat leadership is likely waiting to see how the GOP manages this first before doing anything. If Gaetz doesn't have the votes, then the Dems would likely step back. If Gaetz has the votes, then it gets interesting.

I ponder if any deal with the Dems included killing this motion capacity... plus meat for the Dems. But anything like that probably is the end of McCarthy.
 
Here is a flow chart showing the likely path forward regarding Gaetz's motion.

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From the Washington Post, it sounds like the Democrats are going to not help Speaker McCarthy. The reason? McCarthy.
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Inside the meeting, Democratic leaders showed a video of McCarthy on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, in which he attempted to blame Democrats for wanting to shut down the government. The charge was a misrepresentation of the events of the past several weeks, when House Republicans were unable to fund the government with only Republican support. All but one House Democrat voted for the eventual short-term government funding bill.

Democrats inside the room were “outraged” at seeing McCarthy trying to blame them, according to Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.).
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As noted before, McCarthy is a far right-winger, which makes this "fire McCarthy" angle from Gaetz (*-FL) all the more bizarre. McCarthy has said nothing, done nothing to generate any sense of non-partisan good will with the Democrats, in fact, going in the exact opposite of trying to blame the party that saved his ass (temporarily) in getting the funding bill passed. So, assuming Gaetz has enough Republican votes, the Democrats are planning on letting McCarthy hang in the wind at the GOP gallows.

McCarthy announced the vote to table the motion is today. He wins that, then this goes away until Gaetz brings it up again. He loses that, then it is a vote as to whether to fire McCarthy from the Speakership.
 
Remember the olden days when GOP was divided into the moderate wing and the right wing? Now we have the right wing and the funny farm.

Don't forget McCarthy's "Ace in the hole": Gaetz is guilty of felony sex trafficking of a 17 year-old girl. Prosecutors had bigger fish -- traitors and seditionists -- so didn't pursue that charge -- but right-wing Republicans can vote to have the funny-farm pimp expelled. (Helping the 17 year-old girl launch a lucrative career fits right in with Republican values, but 'Hypocrisy' is their middle name.)

With Gaetz acting against his party's right wing, and thereby serving the Democrats' interest, I wonder if the blue-shirts should save Gaetz' seat rather than voting to expel.

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Polls not looking good. By a clear 2 to 1 margin (64 to 36), Americans believe that it was time to change the speakers, half of the remaining Americans believed that the speakers should only be replaced if they are shown not to work and have tried rewiring them. Only 12% believed that a subwoofer should be purchased and installed.
 
Motion to tell Gaetz to eff off looks like it is going to fail and a formal vote will be held as to whether to keep McCarthy. Right now 11 Republicans voted in apparent support to kick McCarthy from the Speakership.
 
I see no reason at all why Democrats would be inclined to keep McCarthy in the role. Sure, his replacement will be even nuttier than him, but that doesn't necessarily hurt the Democratic prognosis. Gaetz et all are unpopular with the American public, having them in charge is apt to produce scary headlines to drive Democratic votes next year.
 
I would have thought that Trump's judicial appointments and the subsequent overturning of Roe v. Wade would mobilize voters. Yet, surprisingly, we have a Republican majority.
 
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