Frost rips into McCarthy, GOP: They ‘care more about themselves and their politics than you’
3 years ago by geosoco to c/politics
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) attacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on the floor of the House on Thursday, saying that his caucus is a “circus” and can’t gather enough votes to pass any significant legislation.
“This speaker doesn’t even have the votes for impeachment, doesn’t even have the votes to fund the government,” Frost said. “It’s unclear if he even has the votes to keep his own job.”
So you're going to vote every chance you get for the rest of your life, right?
Yes bc not voting gives more power to the people I absolutely don't want running things that attack me for being audhd and bi.....regularly. In fact these are the same people who want to return to the 60s and further back when being who I am and happy was illegal. They'd rather shove me in a insane asylum than just let me live. All bc of some hogwash believing people like me are some kind of cp all the while they're the ones doing that exact thing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the extremist House Republicans, who care more about themselves and their politics than you.”
Frost, the House’s youngest member, also railed against Republican attempts to impeach President Biden over his son’s business deals.
“And the cherry on top of all of this is that instead of getting to work on funding the government, they’re trying to impeach Hunter Biden, I think, who — spoiler alert — is not the president of the United States,” he added.
Gaetz has floated votes to oust McCarthy in recent days.
The House has struggled to move forward on bills crucial for government funding, including a bill on defense funding measures that sank after opposition from far-right Republicans.
“We are 15 days from a government shutdown that will impact millions of working people, and Speaker McCarthy can’t get his own party to pass any significant pieces of legislation,” Frost said.
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Small clarification... The majority number of votes gets to pick the speaker. In theory a small number of Republicans could break off and side with the Democrats for a new speaker of their choosing, but that sadly isn't going to happen for a number of reasons. So they're left with an internally fractured party that is going nowhere.
That is correct! And I sincerely thank you for the clarification. These days, so many things hinge on rules and laws and traditions and procedures that are far more obscure than this one, and getting the details correct definitely matters.
What would you have him do exactly?
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Yea and also water is wet. We're kinda powerless unless somehow we turn a miracle out of all the gerrymandering. I'm just so done with this bs and being unable to fix anything....
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