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Kevin McCarthy Finally becomes Speaker
on 15th ballot after violent scenes in
Congress: Republicans had to be held back
from rebel Matt Gaetz on second anniversary
of January 6, following four days of farce

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Posted By: Imright, 1/7/2023 6:05:20 AM

On the 15th ballot over a series of four days, Rep. Kevin McCarthy finally won the coveted title: Speaker of the House. 'That was easy, huh?' McCarthy began in his victory speech - shortly after South Carolina Representative Mike Rogers had to be held back from attacking Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. The two Republicans almost came to blows over Gaetz's refusal to back McCarthy during the 14th vote, costing him that contest, with the violent clash coming as tempers frayed over the mammoth voting-process.  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DCGIRL 1/7/2023 6:14:08 AM (No. 1372793)
Here it comes, instant replay of Paul Ryan and John Boehner. He's a Rino, pure and simple.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Califedup 1/7/2023 6:20:16 AM (No. 1372795)
Good Bye republican party.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Sully 1/7/2023 6:38:53 AM (No. 1372800)
The list of "concessions" McCarthy yielded to are hardly controversial from a conservative viewpoint. They are standard conservative base items and about dm time. If it took 14 votes to get them fine with me. You know he won't do move the ball one inch to the right beyond the concessions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: goodbyedems 1/7/2023 6:52:21 AM (No. 1372805)
Please tell me what makes McCarthy soooo special that he needed to humiliate the Republican party with 15 rounds of voting. Is he the Republican "Heismen trophy" winner ready to lead us to the Championship .....or the 'owner's' favorite son (US Chamber, K St Lobbyists, etc). And while you're at it, let me know why there was zero consequences for leadership --- McConnell, McCarthy & Ronna Romney -- for their failure in at least the last two election cycles.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: 5 handicap 1/7/2023 7:09:02 AM (No. 1372808)
Does anybody believe McCarthy will follow through with the promises he made? He's been a RINO hack for so long now, it'll be exceptionally difficult to change his allegiance from K Street to America.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: F15 Gork 1/7/2023 7:19:10 AM (No. 1372810)
Matt Gaetz is my Representative...... think I’ll send him some money today. McCarthy is a mistake. Time will bare that out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 1/7/2023 7:24:52 AM (No. 1372813)
The definition of insanity: doing things the way they have always been done, and expecting different results. Trump has been our only attempt at change, and so much changed in four short years! The Uniparty is jerking us back into line, and many republicans thoughtlessly comply. "Mr. Gaetz goes to Washington." And they held him under water in the swamp.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: 5 handicap 1/7/2023 7:28:14 AM (No. 1372817)
It seems Mike Rogers has gone full NAZI, "If you don't vote for whom I choose , I'm gonna kill you!" What an ass! He most certainly doesn't belong in the Government of the United States.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: BarryNo 1/7/2023 7:39:27 AM (No. 1372825)
We need to form a new party and find some way to exclude the Swamp Critters, or at least limit their power. Either that, or we need a new Revolution, and exile or execute the Swamp Critters who have harmed us, for so long.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: judy 1/7/2023 7:53:55 AM (No. 1372829)
Too bad they held Rogers back...Gaetz could have charged him with assault & threats. Anddddd they talk about Gaetz...he looks & acts tame compared to Rogers..
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Lazyman 1/7/2023 7:58:39 AM (No. 1372832)
They will issue a subpoena, a liar will testify and the DOJ will totally ignore it. That is how a swamp stays in power. Expect corruption and you won't be disappointed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: minuteman 1/7/2023 7:59:01 AM (No. 1372833)
The headline is a farce. I do not like the outcome but this was the first actually democratic process to occur in congress for years. Fascist prefer backroom deals and no debate. Omnibus anyone?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Yuban 1/7/2023 8:31:42 AM (No. 1372853)
Good news, bad news. The GOP has some fight in it. Too bad it is against their own. Petty little egomaniacs. Very tiresome. Very childish.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bpl40 1/7/2023 8:47:40 AM (No. 1372869)
0bama and Chuck Schumer just became Joint Speakers by remote control. All the commitments made and two bucks will get the HFC an overpriced cup of coffee at Starbucks!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: janjan 1/7/2023 8:51:06 AM (No. 1372872)
I appreciate the Representatives who held out for some long overdue changes to how Washington works. It took 15 votes to accomplish this. So what? Republicans have never marched in lockstep like the Democrats do. This can be good and bad. There wasn’t one Democrat who would dare not vote for Jeffries whether they liked him or not.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: red1066 1/7/2023 9:02:38 AM (No. 1372874)
I saw a lot of people talking to Gaetz after the vote, but I didn't see any confrontation that required someone to be held back. Who did Gaetz want as speaker? That's one thing in watching I never heard. I think people were getting frustrated because the 20 or so who were holding out seemed to be happy with the concessions that McCarthy agreed to, and Gaetz and Borbert holding out seemed to them to as if they were throwing a tantrum. They got what they wanted from McCarthy, so move on.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 1/7/2023 9:27:00 AM (No. 1372888)
The vote is mercifully over. Now we witness what happens going forward.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: happywarrior 1/7/2023 9:37:17 AM (No. 1372896)
#4, it was McCarthy's turn. Just like it was Jeb's! turn in 2016 but President Trump showed up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: TCloud 1/7/2023 9:39:40 AM (No. 1372899)
When the Country most needed an Iron Fisted AG we instead ended up with a limp wristed and compromised Bill Barr. The holdouts forced an issue where we will soon know whether we have an Iron Fisted Speaker armed with Conservative MOA or a limp wristed Lifer RINO who owes His Soul to the CO. STORE!
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Italiano 1/7/2023 9:43:41 AM (No. 1372906)
The final nail in the coffin of the "2022 Red Wave."
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Marzipan4 1/7/2023 10:14:59 AM (No. 1372943)
Farce, clown show, grandstanding… where are the conservative journalists telling the truth that the majority of freedom loving Americans do not want business as normal and ‘release the kraken’ moments but actual law making based of fiscal conservatism, ie, no more money to Ukraine and build that flippin wall now? Grr so tired of rinos
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 1/7/2023 10:38:07 AM (No. 1372961)
Poster 10 I'll take revolution FOR THE WIN!
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Reply 23 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 1/7/2023 11:14:26 AM (No. 1373002)
Democrats put Republicans in jails. Jan. 6 is an example. Republicans hold hearing and punt. Will this change? Probably not. McCarthy will continue to be his candy-ass RINO self.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: anniebc 1/7/2023 11:17:18 AM (No. 1373012)
Look how Pubs are quick to fight each other, but wouldn't dare raise up against a deserving democrat.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Kate318 1/7/2023 12:26:06 PM (No. 1373104)
Notice in the video it’s the GOPe that start swimming around McCarthy like sharks, and the “violence” came from one of them. I know God promised he would never destroy mankind with a flood again, but gosh, DC is so close to the water.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: TexaTucky 1/7/2023 12:53:47 PM (No. 1373133)
Folks, Mike Rogers did NOT have to be held back from attacking Gaetz. The fact that there's a picture of the sergeant-at-arms HOLDING him back and that many of you take that picture as proof of Rogers' intent is why political discourse is so toxic these days and the dumbing-down of America is so easy. Believing what you're told to believe, whether by outright verbal lies to your face or graphic insinuation. If you actually watched the proceedings like the T-Tucky nerds did way late last night, you would know that Mike Rogers simply - and calmly . . . with no malice evident on his face or in his body language - came down the aisle and was leaning in to say something when he was weirdly grabbed from behind by this guy who also put his hand on Rogers' face and neck. It looked totally unnecessary. But I'm not as psychically prescient as these wise DC insiders, pundits, politicians, and pontificaters are, so maybe what's captured in this one still image really is about what one man might do instead of what one swamp system wants people who didn't watch it live to believe. Have ya'll heard about the violent J6 protesters?
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Reply 27 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 1/7/2023 1:32:53 PM (No. 1373155)
Note to Daily Mail - It wasn't 4 days of farce. This how procedures work in a constitutional republic (cr) - or how things are supposed to work in a (cr), but of course you wouldn't know anything about that living in the socialist hellhole that is Great Britain.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: MDConservative 1/7/2023 1:47:05 PM (No. 1373163)
After this debacle that was bound for failure from the outset, let’s hear no more about “party unity”. The whole idea is laughable. Hope Gaetz likes his new cubicle in the Ford Annex basement. Stupid, stupid, stupid politics.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: ChattyCatsSusan 1/7/2023 2:03:24 PM (No. 1373171)
Which is why Gaetz will continue to have my respect while Rep. Rogers will be considered lower than the contents of the litter box my cats use. Same with all who supported McCarthy the skunk.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: cold porridge 1/7/2023 2:31:55 PM (No. 1373185)
No Daily Mail, the attempt to get an honest conservative as speaker of the house was not a farce. Two things that are farces though are: 1. The Daily Mail rag that purports to report news, and 2. The "Royal Family" is and has been a farce for decades/
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Reply 31 - Posted by: earlybird 1/7/2023 2:44:41 PM (No. 1373188)
Tabloid clickbait. We watched. Saw no violence.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: earlybird 1/7/2023 2:51:10 PM (No. 1373192)
The rules concessions that McCarthy agreed to will now go to the full House which will vote on their adoption.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 1/7/2023 3:07:03 PM (No. 1373209)
I want to know what happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene! She's part of the Freedom Caucus and didn't support them in their fight for fiscal responsibility (1.7 Trillion Dollar Omnibus Bill, the last straw). Is she a McCarthy Toadie? She lost my respect for not being part of the Terrific 20. Courageous Rep. Lauren Boebert made MTG look bad and part of the Swamp.
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Reply 34 - Posted by: mifla 1/7/2023 3:15:40 PM (No. 1373219)
Not to be confused with the time Bill Clinton lied to his cabinet.
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Reply 35 - Posted by: TexaTucky 1/7/2023 3:31:32 PM (No. 1373228)
LOL, #29 . . . if you classify as "failure" what the Founding Fathers would have classified as successful implementation of the system of representative republicanism they established in the first place, maybe Politburo-style "unity" would be more to your liking - the Sino-Soviet model of unity where the designated nominee gets 100% of the vote. Every time.
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