Is it me or do the house republicans seem upset trying to deal with their own? A small group is holding the gop hostage they say.

[bongsaway]

Welcome to the gop is all I can say. Now you get an inkling of how dems feel trying to deal with the gop. Your own party has y'all flabbergasted.

 

[Razoo]

Right-wing group wants a major concession for McCarthy support

The Club for Growth, which backs extremist Republicans, wants the GOP leader to agree to a policy that would make it easier for extremists to get elected.

www.msnbc.com

 

[element94]

Welcome to the gop is all I can say. Now you get an inkling of how dems feel trying to deal with the gop. Your own party has y'all flabbergasted.

I'm looking forward to see how Dumb convinces Dumber to vote their way or vise versa, and of course, the possibility this goes on for two years.

 

[Blue Dog]

 

[Jacksprat]

Welcome to the gop is all I can say. Now you get an inkling of how dems feel trying to deal with the gop. Your own party has y'all flabbergasted.

We now see that the GOP is not capable of leadership.

 

[Razoo]

Right-wing group wants a major concession for McCarthy support

The Club for Growth, which backs extremist Republicans, wants the GOP leader to agree to a policy that would make it easier for extremists to get elected.

www.msnbc.com

If memory serves me well this CLUB FOR GROWTH which has been around for a long while funds right wing Fake Republican campaigns along with plenty of misinformation and misleading statements. It was formed by ALEC which named a former Right Wing Sam Brownback chief of staff as the "contact person". Corrupt beyond reality.

 

[Razoo]

The Club for Growth, which backs extremist Republicans, wants the GOP leader to agree to a policy that would make it easier for extremists to get elected. What the hell is ALEC passing out new legislation to gut rules and/or regulations that provide guidelines and block corruption?????


Jan. 3, 2023, 4:11 PM CST
By Ja'han Jones

In the lead-up to today’s voting for House speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., struggled to corral support. And in an effort to garner it, he reportedly made all sorts of concessions that diminish the power he hopes to wield as majority leader.

McCarthy, for example, has agreed to a rule that would allow a group of five lawmakers to call for a vote to remove the speaker. And he has gone along with right-wingers’ conspiratorial claims in demanding that a committee be formed to investigate the “weaponization of government against our citizens.”

McCarthy failed to secure enough votes to be named speaker when House members cast their first ballots today, sending the speaker vote to a second round for the first time in a century. And then he failed in the second round as well.

And the third round. The process will continue until someone is able to cobble together enough votes to win a majority.

Many conservatives have feasted on the carcass of McCarthy’s authority like vultures at high noon by trying to exact steeper costs from him in exchange for their votes.

On Monday, the right-wing Club for Growth waded into the debate with a list of its own demands that closely aligned with some of the most conservative members of Congress.

The Club for Growth, which releases annual scorecards purporting to grade lawmakers’ conservatism, urged House members to vote against any nominee for speaker who doesn’t agree to these demands. (Read the full list here.)

To me, the most interesting of these demands is the group’s mandate that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a McCarthy-linked super PAC that seeks to elect Republicans to the House, be “prohibited from spending money or providing grants to any super PAC to engage in open Republican primaries or against any Republican incumbent.”

As The New York Times noted on Monday, that demand “reflected a top grievance of conservative hard-liners in the House who are irate that Mr. McCarthy has used the committee to back more mainstream candidates.”
You can read a bit about candidates backed by the Congressional Leadership Fund here and here.

A little background: The Club for Growth was firmly in Trump’s corner for years until a fallout last year, before the midterms. Still, the group has maintained its extremist bonafides.

For example, in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary, the group backedright-wing conspiracy theorist Kathy Barnette over Trump’s pick, Mehmet Oz, and the GOP establishment’s pick, David McCormick.

The Club for Growth’s rule would make it easier for extremist candidates to get elected. McCarthy, who’s struggling to manage the extremists already in Congress, doesn’t seem suited to handle any more. But he ultimately may risk that possibility if it means he can become speaker.

 

[X Factor]

Honestly I don’t see McCarthy’s trouble in getting the votes he needs to necessarily be a bad thing. I’d really rather Repubs not be in lockstep with each other. Someone wants a leadership position? Prove why you deserve it.

 

[Mr Person]

They helped build a monster for temporary advantage and now they've got to wrangle it.

Are there any reasonably centrist GOPers the Democrats could consider backing? Might make sense.

 

[X Factor]

The Club for Growth, which backs extremist Republicans, wants the GOP leader to agree to a policy that would make it easier for extremists to get elected. What the hell is ALEC passing out new legislation to gut rules and/or regulations that provide guidelines and block corruption?????


Jan. 3, 2023, 4:11 PM CST
By Ja'han Jones

In the lead-up to today’s voting for House speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., struggled to corral support. And in an effort to garner it, he reportedly made all sorts of concessions that diminish the power he hopes to wield as majority leader.

McCarthy, for example, has agreed to a rule that would allow a group of five lawmakers to call for a vote to remove the speaker. And he has gone along with right-wingers’ conspiratorial claims in demanding that a committee be formed to investigate the “weaponization of government against our citizens.”

McCarthy failed to secure enough votes to be named speaker when House members cast their first ballots today, sending the speaker vote to a second round for the first time in a century. And then he failed in the second round as well.

And the third round. The process will continue until someone is able to cobble together enough votes to win a majority.

Many conservatives have feasted on the carcass of McCarthy’s authority like vultures at high noon by trying to exact steeper costs from him in exchange for their votes.

On Monday, the right-wing Club for Growth waded into the debate with a list of its own demands that closely aligned with some of the most conservative members of Congress.

The Club for Growth, which releases annual scorecards purporting to grade lawmakers’ conservatism, urged House members to vote against any nominee for speaker who doesn’t agree to these demands. (Read the full list here.)

To me, the most interesting of these demands is the group’s mandate that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a McCarthy-linked super PAC that seeks to elect Republicans to the House, be “prohibited from spending money or providing grants to any super PAC to engage in open Republican primaries or against any Republican incumbent.”

As The New York Times noted on Monday, that demand “reflected a top grievance of conservative hard-liners in the House who are irate that Mr. McCarthy has used the committee to back more mainstream candidates.”
You can read a bit about candidates backed by the Congressional Leadership Fund here and here.

A little background: The Club for Growth was firmly in Trump’s corner for years until a fallout last year, before the midterms. Still, the group has maintained its extremist bonafides.

For example, in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary, the group backedright-wing conspiracy theorist Kathy Barnette over Trump’s pick, Mehmet Oz, and the GOP establishment’s pick, David McCormick.

The Club for Growth’s rule would make it easier for extremist candidates to get elected. McCarthy, who’s struggling to manage the extremists already in Congress, doesn’t seem suited to handle any more. But he ultimately may risk that possibility if it means he can become speaker.

“Club for Growth” sounds like a hair transplant clinic.

 

[Razoo]

This speaker thing really stinks. My guess this fiasco helps ALEC with their big push to over throw the USA government as in making criminal activity legal. Yes making FASCISM legal at the expense of the American
lifestyle.

 

[Razoo]

They helped build a monster for temporary advantage and now they've got to wrangle it.

Are there any reasonably centrist GOPers the Democrats could consider backing? Might make sense.

no .......

 

[watsup]

If memory serves me well this CLUB FOR GROWTH which has been around for a long while funds right wing Fake Republican campaigns along with plenty of misinformation and misleading statements. It was formed by ALEC which named a former Right Wing Sam Brownback chief of staff as the "contact person". Corrupt beyond reality.

Welcome to the Koch Brothers Paradise. It is their funding that has been behind such far right organizations.

 

[element94]

This speaker thing really stinks. My guess this fiasco helps ALEC with their big push to over throw the USA government as in making criminal activity legal. Yes making FASCISM legal at the expense of the American
lifestyle.

Let's not forget the rivers of blood that would have to flow for that to become a reality.