Steve Scalise drops out of speaker's race as House GOP faces leadership crisis
Rep. Steve Scalise is dropping out of the speaker’s race after House Republicans failed to coalesce behind him in the aftermath of Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster.
House Republicans met behind closed-doors for more than two hours Thursday afternoon, where the Majority leader urged his detractors to explain their opposition to him in front of the conference. After the meeting ended, Scalise huddled with those opposed to him in his office. And Republicans scheduled a second members-only conference meeting for Thursday evening.
But the opposition to Scalise as the next speaker only grew Thursday, with roughly 20 Republicans publicly opposing him. Scalise needs a majority of the House to be elected speaker, meaning he can only afford to lose four votes.
Like, holy shit, how can anyone look at the modern GOP and see anything other than the most inept traitors and useless clowns in US history?
Easy. They're looking with eyes wide closed. And to them it's glorious.
The media that GOP voters consume tells them that the Republicans are owning the libs day after day. That makes the Republican Party heroic in their voters’ eyes, because their voters are broken people.
Come on now. Let's not be insulting clowns by comparing them to the GOP. They don't deserve that.
🤡 honk honk
Homey don't play that
This is what they base wants, a non-functioning federal government
Nah, they want a non functional federal government that functions in the way they think it should, which changes with their specific needs only.
The "two santa" GOP pretends it will do the above by vague statements,nearly zero policy positions and wide use of the words "fake news."