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22 House Republicans Decline to Vote for
Jim Jordan for Speaker

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Posted By: earlybird, 10/18/2023 3:32:23 PM

Twenty-two House Republicans on Wednesday declined to vote to make Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) the next Speaker of the House. The House held another vote on if House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Republican nominee for Speaker, should become the leader of the House. Not enough Republicans voted to make him Speaker after 15 days without a Republican leader of the House. Jordan received 199 votes, House Democrat Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) received 212 votes, and 22 lawmakers voted for someone other than Jordan and Jeffries. The 22 Republicans who declined to vote for Jordan include:

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The list is in the article. What destrctive nonsense. Matt Gaetz should have his juvenile attention-seeking bottom spanked.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: vrb8m 10/18/2023 3:33:27 PM (No. 1580438)
Agree with OP.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: downnout 10/18/2023 3:39:21 PM (No. 1580444)
These idiots are having a temper tantrum.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: red1066 10/18/2023 3:42:27 PM (No. 1580448)
Did the 22 abstain from voting? The POS demoslut received more votes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: 3XALADY 10/18/2023 3:44:04 PM (No. 1580450)
I don't blame Matt Gaetz for getting rid of a Speaker who did nothing. I blame the Rinos for not sticking together like the dhimsluts do all the time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Nimby 10/18/2023 3:56:05 PM (No. 1580455)
Why does GOP expect to be put back in power when they cannot even come together within their party?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: 66Strat 10/18/2023 4:00:47 PM (No. 1580460)
That's right, blame Matt Gaetz, but at all costs escuse the lazy, deceitful, Biden funding, Dem appeasing McCarthy and his RINO cartel and let them stay in power. Because, ewww, people might criticize us and say hurtful things. And worse yet, disturb the flow of unlimited funds to Ukraine. Can't have that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 10/18/2023 4:14:49 PM (No. 1580475)
I read these threads and have hot seen one poster who could explain what McCarthy didn't do. Not one.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 10/18/2023 4:16:55 PM (No. 1580478)
Correction: have not seen one poster
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Rama41 10/18/2023 4:23:29 PM (No. 1580487)
I guess we blame this now on Rinos, just like Jordan used to be, according to the sage Sundance, (at least before he changed his mind). People forget too soon how last year we expected 30 seats or more in the House, ending up with a small margin, thanks largely to Lee Zeldin and some unexpected help from NY. Matt Gaetz and friends forget that Trump candidates lost 12 otherwise gettable House seats, 4 Senate seats, and 4 Secretaries of State. Nothing has really changed since then, except our grasp on reality, not to mention our ongoing grasp on the House.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: earlybird 10/18/2023 4:32:28 PM (No. 1580492)
Sooner or later a Trump-hater had to emerge from the weeds and try to blame this on Trump.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: ARKfamily 10/18/2023 4:46:50 PM (No. 1580509)
Well, I will be one of those persons stating what McCarthy didn't do. Stop funding Ukraine. Just in case someone points out of me that there was no funding in the last bill - I am not certain about that "secret deal" McCarthy could have made. . . There I said it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JackBurton 10/18/2023 4:58:08 PM (No. 1580519)
To poster #9... there was no reason NOT to have a Red Wave in 2022... ...except fraud. You can not tell me people wouldn't have voted for Republicans any more than you can tell me Biden got 81 million votes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: 49 Ford 10/18/2023 5:13:18 PM (No. 1580529)
# 10, if # 9 is a "Trump hater" that's news to me. And she is not blaming Trump for the current impasse, just reminding us that he bet on some clunkers during the midterms. The current fiasco is of the House GOP's own making, starting with Matt Gaetz. And you are right - all the fist-waving fulmination about McCarthy's purported shortcomings has gotten us nowhere and crated this needless embarrassment.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Krause 10/18/2023 5:16:31 PM (No. 1580533)
Might as well just give the job to Jeffries, to get it over with. This is ridiculous.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: TXknitter 10/18/2023 5:27:43 PM (No. 1580536)
The 22 Republicans putting is closer and closer to Omnibus. Oh goodee, now it’s four Texans in with K Street against Main Street. (So said Bannon and I agree.) The Repubs will do anything and don’t care how bloody rather than have a MAGA speaker who is a real conservative. Our party schism finally out in the open.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 10/18/2023 5:35:57 PM (No. 1580544)
#TEXIT Now or never.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: cor-vet 10/18/2023 6:10:02 PM (No. 1580557)
I'm not the biggest fan of Jordan, and being from South Louisiana, also not the biggest fan of Scalise ( the mistake by the lake), but just once, in my 80 plus years, I'd like to see Republicans stick together on something. Dems operate in lockstep, whether it's to kill babies, prosecute an innocent man, whatever. Republicans can't agree on anything, there's always one 'maverick!' Put Jordan or Scalise in as speaker, see what happens, and vote him out if you're dis-satisfied! Do something!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 10/18/2023 6:15:03 PM (No. 1580564)
RINOs should be primaried.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: DVC 10/18/2023 6:18:40 PM (No. 1580568)
I don't agree that this is Gaetz's fault. McCathy made a lot of promises to get elected and he broke a number of them, apparently, once he was in power. The problem is self serving RINOs who would rather ball up everything rather than let a conservative get into power. THEY are the real problem.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: YorkieMom 10/18/2023 7:05:47 PM (No. 1580590)
What I don’t get is why Gaetz is such a hero when he loved Paul Ryan as Speaker. This was personal against McCarthy. Gaetz is all about himself.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: watashiyo 10/18/2023 7:52:52 PM (No. 1580605)
All should be primaried. Or let'em know their political career is over.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: smidgen 10/18/2023 7:57:10 PM (No. 1580606)
Every molecule of this is the fault of Matt Gaetz!
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Scribelus 10/18/2023 8:00:39 PM (No. 1580607)
Twenty-two politicians pleasuring themselves in public. Not since Jeffrey Toobin…
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Reply 24 - Posted by: anniebc 10/18/2023 8:17:17 PM (No. 1580620)
Then drop Jordan and nominate and vote for Trump.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Safari Man 10/18/2023 9:04:29 PM (No. 1580636)
Gaetz is the MAN OF THE YEAR. A true American HERO. Somebody actually voted for John Boehner. What a bunch of LOSERS. Raise your hand if you want John Boehner as well. TBH, I would not be surprised if some here do. Republicans like that are why were in the mess we're in. We need another 22 Matt Gaetz's.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: 24tea@Mag 10/18/2023 10:55:37 PM (No. 1580699)
Remember the 22 and vote for others the next they are on the ballot.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: mifla 10/19/2023 5:20:27 AM (No. 1580791)
This has evolved into a clash of high school cliques. The Dems are laughing their butts off and putting together the campaign ads to take back the House next year. I understand why Gaetz did what he did, but he did not have a plan on what to do next.
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