Based on the "news", you also "knew" he was Putin's puppet during the four years of his Presidency, too.
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Based on the "news", you also "knew" he was Putin's puppet during the four years of his Presidency, too.I may be a bit older than you........don't know. But I've been a news junkie for years and I have a good memory. A lot of my stuff comes from the news years ago, especially when it comes to Trump. Started reading about him in the 1980's. Not going to bring up his crap in this thread, but I know a lot of stuff about him and the stuff he did (to other people) way before he was involved in politics. Brought up Jordan's past because he's Trump's bootlick.
Me neither. I just find it suspect when these same type of allegations are raised whenever someone the dems don't like is in the spotlight. It's standard operating procedure for them.@Joe King - I don't know. I'm not invested in the issue and have never investigated.
GOP is going to have a civil war - might eventually end up splitting into 2 different parties (<-- IMO)
I fully expect that the majority non-MAGA GOP is going to make a deal with the Dems on a compromise moderate R to be speaker and the MAGA 8 are going to be marginalized.
If there is one thing that those in DC are good at, it's making that.devil's sausage
It's always "other people's Reps" that are the problem. Well, that and extreme gerrymandering that entrenches incumbents in safe districts. Folks that are involved in party politics - where most viable (connected to funding and campaigning resources) candidates come from are invested in the system.Hopefully it'll take the next 13 Months to elect a Speaker and the public will be so disgusted with them, that every incumbent up for re-election loses.
Other than a skant few, they all suck and need to go.It's always "other people's Reps" that are the problem.
That's another thing that shouldn't be allowed. Districts should be required to be square or rectangular in shape, and drawn blindly to anything other than the number of citizens living in the area.Well, that and extreme gerrymandering t
F' 'em. I so hope they live long enough to get their Just rewards for their "efforts". All they've done, is to set the nation up for failure.Folks that are involved in party politics - where most viable (connected to funding and campaigning resources) candidates come from are invested in the system.
Shut it Down. This Corporation is BEYOND broke. Time for bankruptcy.
House Republicans are barreling toward a floor vote on their Speaker nominee — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — this week even as the Judiciary Committee chairman remains far from the 217 votes needed to win the gavel on the House floor.
Jordan clinched the nomination for Speaker in a 124-81 vote on Friday, beating his last-minute challenger, Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.). But when the conference was asked if they would support Jordan’s nomination on the floor, the vote was 152-55 — leaving Jordan well short of the 217 votes needed to win the Speakership on the House floor.
The planned vote on Tuesday is setting the stage for another public clash over the gavel, similar to the four-day, 15-ballot election that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) went through in January.
Some Jordan backers are hoping that bringing his nomination to the floor — and forcing Republicans on the record — will increase the Ohio Republican’s support and put him within reach of the gavel. Jordan will be up against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who Democrats unanimously nominated to be Speaker.
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A number of House Republicans are in talks to block Rep. Jim Jordan’s path to the speakership as the Ohio Republican tries to force a floor vote on Tuesday, according to multiple GOP sources.
One senior Republican House member who is part of the opposition to Jordan told CNN that there he believes there are roughly 40 “no” votes, and that he has personally spoken to 20 members who are willing to go to the floor and block Jordan’s path if the Ohio Republican forces a roll-call vote on Tuesday.
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Some of Jordan’s allies have pushed for votes on the floor in order to try to call out the holdouts who aren’t behind the Ohio Republican. But Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas railed against his House GOP colleagues who plan on rallying support for Jordan’s speakership through a public pressure campaign, calling it “the dumbest thing you can do.”
“That is the dumbest way to support Jordan,” Crenshaw told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “As someone who wants Jim Jordan, the dumbest thing you can do is to continue pissing off those people and entrench them.”
jordan's camp says another round today. mccarthy says he's with jordan.
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