Jim Jordan will back empowering interim speaker Patrick McHenry temporarily

TubeTalkerX , 8 months ago

So will the Acting Speaker of the House be like the Debt Ceiling, they need to keep passing resolutions on it?

SeaJ , 8 months ago

Hope McHenry avoids more of those rabid foxes that don’t seem to care for him.

FlyingSquid OP , 8 months ago

Oh I hope he doesn’t. Let them eat him.

NOT_RICK , 8 months ago

Considering his first action as acting speaker was to pettily throw democratic reps out of their offices in defiance of precedent that even McCarthy followed, I hope his pseudo-term is as frustrating as possible.

Kata1yst , 8 months ago

I understand this stance emotionally, but there's a ton of extremely important work Congress needs to get done immediately. It can't progress with a standard interim speaker.

This is bigger than "Haha, the people I don't like are going to look bad". They have a fucking job to do and a limited amount of time to do it. If it doesn't get done, innocent people will suffer.

Unless you're offering to somehow pay the salaries and contracts of the ~6 million civilians who will lose pay with a government shutdown, to say nothing of the humanitarian efforts worldwide that run off the federal budget.

NOT_RICK , 8 months ago

I still want them to get stuff done, I just want him to have a bad time herding his clown show of a caucus. I agree ton of crucial stuff is at stake both domestically and abroad.

FlowVoid , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

in defiance of precedent that even McCarthy

That order was McCarthy’s idea.

He wanted a new office.

NOT_RICK , 8 months ago

lol I thought he was a dork before but this has made me think even less of him, didn’t think that was possible!

SeaJ , 8 months ago

My comment was more meant to be sarcastic without directly calling for his death. That said, if he did happen to get bitten by a rabid fox again and he happened to not get treated for it in time, I would not really be mourning the loss.