The Politics Thread USA Edition

[DB9]

Jan 6 - always a poignant day. To get the gavel, McCarthy no doubt has had to sell his soul to the devil. Thank god for the tali 20.

Seriously? Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert? You're "Thanking God" for them? The election deniers and the ones that predicted a "Red Wave" during the midterms. If you think they and others like them are America's/GOP's hopes then I'd say "God Help Us"!!

 

[Grecian2K]

Jesus wept man. Did the invention of Google pass you by?

Who are the ‘Taliban 20’ paralysing Kevin McCarthy in the House speaker vote?

Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the 20 GOP lawmakers given an unflattering nickname

www.independent.co.uk

I did Google "tali 20" (you patronising prig!)
And it came up with zilch....apart from a source of Indonesian bamboo sticks.

 

[Phil Sayers]

The party of Jinxy's comment that is confusing me is that firstly he suggests that the far right awkward squad are a devil that McCarthy will have had to sell his soul to and then says thank god for them?

 

[Mr Jinx]

The party of Jinxy's comment that is confusing me is that firstly he suggests that the far right awkward squad are a devil that McCarthy will have had to sell his soul to and then says thank god for them?

Well if you believe in bearded men sitting on fluffy clouds looking down on us all, you also have to believe in things with horns and pitch forks. So yeah, there is logic, for the nitpickers, lolz

 

[angelic upstart]

Can someone explain to me in simple English why any of this matters? What did the rebels achieve? Why didn't the democrats just vote him in if the rebels will achieve things they wouldn't want?

Or is it simple nonsense politics stuff to try and make individuals look good/bad?

 

[Hermann]

Can someone explain to me in simple English why any of this matters? What did the rebels achieve? Why didn't the democrats just vote him in if the rebels will achieve things they wouldn't want?

Or is it simple nonsense politics stuff to try and make individuals look good/bad?

They no doubt got some concessions of some sort. Committee places, policy promises etc.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Can someone explain to me in simple English why any of this matters? What did the rebels achieve? Why didn't the democrats just vote him in if the rebels will achieve things they wouldn't want?

Or is it simple nonsense politics stuff to try and make individuals look good/bad?

The Dems know that the GOP can't actually get any legislation though to being enacted as there is a Dem led Senate and Joe Biden as President.
Therefore the House of Representatives will just engage in spoilers and 'investigations'.

The fact that McCarthy has given concessions to the Freedom Caucus et al and seriously weakened his own security as Speaker means there will be a whole load of craziness in evidence to little effect in terms of delivering results to the American people.

In the wider sphere, come 2024, the calculation is that this behaviour will further damage them in the next election as the majority of the voting public have demonstrated their weariness with these antics. The base that Gaetz and company are playing to is shrinking.

 

[Alistair20000]

Jesus wept man. Did the invention of Google pass you by?

Who are the ‘Taliban 20’ paralysing Kevin McCarthy in the House speaker vote?

Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the 20 GOP lawmakers given an unflattering nickname

www.independent.co.uk

Sad old man of Exeweb G2K is an assiduous practitioner of the obtuse post these days Jinxy.

 

[DB9]

Looks like Joe had more than his Corvette in his Garage!

 

[angelic upstart]

Looks like Joe had more than his Corvette in his Garage!

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned before.