And…Matt Gaetz… Human Sex Trafficker extraordinaire of all people… was what set this all in motion. And the GOP is usually the party that moves lock-step with one another. It’s hilarious to finally see.
Wasn’t he the one that insisted on the “I can oust you whenever I want” provision in the first place? It would have been more surprising if he hadn’t done it…
It’s always been that way. The speaker is elected by the house, if the house wants to replace him they can whenever they want.
Usually it requires more than one butthurt manchild throwing a hissy fit though.
In this case, McCarthy made the very smart decision to shit talk the Democrats before the vote, so all the dems votes in favor of removal
We have the best quality politicians, am I right? When you’re Speaker they let you go on national TV and stuff your foot right in your mouth. Just open wide, stuff inside. Just like that! And the biased left wing media makes it sound bad by airing it.
I understood that sarcasm even without the ‘/s’.
Why thank you, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
Well it takes one person to propose it, then someone to second the motion. I can’t find the specific historical floor proceedings from Oct 3rd. But the reality of what happened, and how it happened doesn’t match your imagination.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-path-to-speakership/index.html
“McCarthy’s concessions to the GOP dissidents are significant and could ultimately cut his tenure as speaker short. Among the rules changes: McCarthy agreed to restore a rule allowing a single Republican member to call for a vote to depose him as speaker, the same rule that led to John Boehner’s decision to resign as speaker in 2015.”
I’d like to see this rule. I can’t find it in the official house rules. https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules118.house.gov/files/documents/Rules and Resources/118-House-Rules-Clerk.pdf
It’s referred to as privilege. It’s rule IX. The lingo they use can make things unintuitive.
Here’s a Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_to_vacate_the_chair
It’s the first time in US history a motion to vacate has successfully removed the speaker of the house. The only function the interim speaker can conduct is to call for votes on a new speaker, I don’t believe the interim speaker can bring new legislation.
Yet it was never done before. And the reason he was removed was because he wanted to avoid a government shut down. The GOP are insane
It’s great to watch. The GOP hate, and I mean really hate, each other. Up until now though they could hate the Democrats more and that would unite them. Not anymore. I don’t think the Democrats are lovey dovey or anything but they can work together. The Republicans are going to rip themselves apart, especially if the Democrats become irrelevant.
GOP won’t take responsibility.
There, fixed it.
The nominal head of their party stated on camera in front a large group of people: “I don’t take any responsibility at all.” It’s part of the conservative’s DNA.
Ah yes, the headline I’ve been reading for…well…forever…
Dems don’t understand the meaning of the word responsibility either.
I mean, in the interest of being technically correct every democrat did vote against him. Why would they vote for a republican? That makes no sense.
Did the first 15 votes against him give the GOP any sense that the Dems would turn around and vote for him on vote #16? Apparently, the GOP can’t do pattern recognition.
They extrapolate like ChatGPT v1 on a computer with a broken CPU and bad RAM
Well in theory an opposition party that didn’t agree with everything the GoP does to begin with would offer up a compromise candidate with concessions to their parties legislative priorities even if they were a “republican”. But since Dems exist to provide cover for the same lobbyists that fund the GoP and ensure that a leftist party can never get elected in a first past the post system, they don’t actually care one way or another.
It’s need a third panel where he shots himself
Honestly, why wouldn’t the Democrats do that?
The other party has way more guns.
