I have a bad feeling about this Speaker vote

[Roland99]

I think Johnson will win on this vote

The complete devolution of the GOP into the party of trump will have been completed

“This is how democracy dies. To thunderous applause”

[Chainfire]

1. When the Republican Party makes its choice in this matter they will be telling the world who they are.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

2. All of them were like that.

McCarthy was a Trump guy too.

[Army Brat]

4. Not like Johnson

Thinking all Republicans are identical is just wrong.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

15. Maybe not quite like Johnson...

You're right. McCarthy is more of a Trump guy out of fear and convenience, not principle. Which kind of goes without saying, since McCarthy seems to have no principles.

In any case, the "easy" part is getting a speaker. The hard part is actually legislating. I'm worried how these clowns are going to try and write a budget.

[ismnotwasm]

27. What else are they like?

Racists and bigots. Misogynists and white supremacists

[AkFemDem]

3. He's going to win but...

I don't think this is any worse than Jordan or Emmer. McCarthy has the lowest "conservative score" of all the private vote winners in this congress, if we'd wanted to avoid a conservative-conservative then we wouldn't have voted to oust him. The end result though, was always going to be a republican. Because I have a personal loathing for Jordan, anyone but Jordan is a small victory to me.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Definitely worse than Emmer, probably not worse than Jordan

[C_U_L8R]

5. Every Johnson vote says "I'm a coward and I don't care"

They really are so pathetic.

[rurallib]

9. would be really interesting if the vote were anonymous wouldn't it?

[Silent Type]

6. Appears so. Think we were better off with McCarthy, unfortunately.

[Yavin4]

19. How so?

I simply don't get that line of thinking.

[ITAL]

20. He at least was willing to fund Ukraine

There is some thought that Johnson won't be for that.

[Yavin4]

21. Doesn't matter what Kevin wanted. It's what his caucus wants.

And stupidly, he armed his opponents to remove him if/when he didn't give them what they wanted. Kevin thought that the Democrats would save them, but instead of working with the Dems, he showed us his ass. So, fuck Kevin McCarthy.

[honest.abe]

22. Very likely a gov shutdown and who know what else this lunatic will try to derail.

McCarthy was bad but he did work with us to get debt ceiling passed and extension of the budget.

[Silent Type]

23. Simple, Johnson is a bigger A-hole, trumper, and worse, than McCarthy. They both suck, but it's rationalization

to say we are better off with Johnson. We aren't, unless Johnson is surprises us.

[DemocratInPa]

7. Damage he can do will be limited, but.

Say bye to Ukraine seeing another penny.

[UTUSN]

8. The MSNBC host said all the holdouts have fallen in line, that they

had said JORDAN was too extreme yet JOHNSON is exactly as extreme.

[Roland99]

12. Johnson has said he'd not have voted to certify the election

He’s essentially signaling he’d do the same again, even tho candidates aren’t even decided yet

[BlueCheeseAgain]

16. Jordan is in his own class of weird extremism.

[Voltaire2]

11. Why do we care which fascist shithead gets elected?

Every single one of them is a fascist or onboard with the fascist majority. There was never going to be a ‘moderate’ - basically there aren’t any.

[Arthur_Frain]

18. This is my thinking

With the rules in place, 8 magat hardcore house members are dictating to the other 220.

My only (forlorn) hope is that after all of this shitshow, they lose any kind of meaningful majority in the upcoming elections. Not optimistic about that, (it’s about as likely as Jeffires being confirmed for speaker) but I’ve got to have something to hope for.

[everyonematters]

13. How much can they realistically accomplish?

They don't control the Senate or the White House. An election is just a year away. If they shut down the government, they will get the flack for it.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Lol the complete devolution happened years ago.

[FrankBooth]

17. While I too don't like Johnson

There are no good choices who could win. And there will be no perceptible difference between Johnson as speaker and McCarthy before him, except Johnson won't have the sway/connections with donors and the GOP machinery that the former speaker had, which will not help them in '24. The devolution of the GOP to this was inevitable and unsurprising.

[LiberalFighter]

24. They are risking majority of House in 2024 election.

[jcgoldie]

25. House GOP doubles down on Trump again...

...even as everything else seems to be crumbling around him.

[MistakenLamb]

26. remember that Democrats have the white house and the senate

and the next congress will chose the speaker not this one.

[bpj62]

28. First on the Agenda

1. Impeachment of Joseph R. Biden
2. National ban on abortion
3. Revamping/Defunding Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare
4. Some sort of ban on the LGBT community
5. Attempt to defund the DOJ
6. Pass a draconian budget bill that has no chance of passing the Senate and then try to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown.

I could list more but the crazies are fully in charge now in the house and hopefully America will see them for who they are.
Personally I am only worried about the budget as that directly impacts people's daily lives and you now have a bunch of hostage takers in charge.
On a different note how quickly will Kevin McCarthy be kicked out of the speakers office. My bet is by 5pm this evening. Guarantee you Matt Gaetz will film the whole thing.