Both Republican and Democratic senators emphasize that any successor to Kevin McCarthy will inherit the divided government that befell him — with another shutdown looming.

  • Buelldozer
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    9 months ago

    This looks great for Gaetz…

    I’ll bet 100 USD that Gaetz isn’t around much longer. My guess is that he’ll be bounced out of the HoR before the end of the year, maybe right after they restart in 2024 but no longer than that. He ended his political career with this stunt.

    • @RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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      179 months ago

      I’d love to see it but the republicans have to do it themselves and they’ve shown that there’s next to nothing they won’t tolerate to keep a voting body.

      Now what’s interesting to me is Madison Cawthorn going down pretty much immediately. And what did he do that bought him such a quick exit? While they’ll claim x or y, to me it was him talking about republican cocaine orgies. Which sounds outlandish. But there was an immediate concentrated effort to oust him. He had that picture get dropped and whatnot. What spooked them? Odd that such an outlandish thing would get them worked up. Unless of course it’s true. Hrmmmm.

    • @mx_smith@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know I just heard an NPR article where they were interviewing people from Pensacola and it seemed the stupid republicans were happy he made this move.

    • themeatbridge
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      29 months ago

      He’s going to run for Governor of Florida, and he is currently popular enough to win.