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The 118th United States [Congress] Our long national nightmare comes to a beginning
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In Congress:
New Year, New Congress. The results of the 2022 Midterm Elections are being sworn in and are currently as follows:
United States Senate:
48(D) - 3(I) - 49(R)
The Democratic Coalition has gained one seat to have an actual majority, rather than an even split with a power sharing agreement under Vice President Kamala Harris. Resulting in somewhat more authority throughout committees, to which they have full control over the gavels, and for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
United States House of Representatives:
212(D) - 222(R) - 1(Vacant | Democratic member passed away due to Cancer)
The Republican Conference won the Majority and so has a sufficient number of votes to elect a Speaker, provided they can all agree on one due to having a single digit majority (5 flipped vote margin 10 [9 after the likely upcoming special election] abstention margin) The presumptive Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23), is going to struggle with a fractious Conference with minimal margin for error and has demonstrated he is not in any way good at that.
That's quite a government you've got there. What do you call it?
The 118th Congress!
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I'm not sure we will have a Speaker by Valentines Day which is grimly hilarious to me.
They fucked up the debt ceiling though so budget fireworks in ~ July.
Speaker needs a majority of Members seated (218) not a majority of Members present (50%+1) or plurality. A vote of 217-5-212 means there is not a Speaker agreed to and it goes to another round of voting. He presently does not have 218 pledged supporters. Though that doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't have the votes.
Conservatives in Chaos
That's what I expect, but I'm not certain I'm prepared for it.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
This will be bad... for Obama
No one has really said anything during the recess, so I think tomorrow is the big day
Except that Republicans are 99.9% lunatics, and I'm pretty certain the .1% that aren't were all primaried away. So now it's just a fight between nihilistic assholes who want to burn the government to the ground, and nihilistic assholes who want to pillage THEN burn.
Walking around the Cannon office building, the oldest of all of them, it was incredibly obvious that it was for freshmen congress people. I'd take my current 100+ year old office over their 100+ year old office. At least I get a kitchenette and there are more bathrooms per person.
especially if you're one of those congress people who's primary home is in a major metropolitan area and having to maintain a second dc home is prohibitively expensive so you sleep in your office sometimes
E: Going to 2nd ballot, that is.
This is a rare moment when I will quote the prophet Violent J.
Biggs of “gave an unorthodox and suspicious surveillance triptour to an insurrectionist on Jan 5” infamy no less
Edit: wait no that was Scott Perry, Biggs was just another frothing dipshit in all this
Don't you threaten me with a good time.
And obnoxiously so our media just blatantly ignores that. Like these people literally want the government to do nothing. They work in the thing they don't want doing anything, that's fucking insane. I mean its like the mariners front office of government!
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It will never happen but at least this is off to a good start.
I'd like a fucking day of it, but I'm sure we'll get a generic "congress in dissarray as democrats don't help McCarthy."
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Your 19 vipers. (National Journal reporter)
Democrats in crisis as many refuse to support McCarthys plan for American Prosperity, confused messaging from the left indicates that they do not believe Americans should be rich, and demand higher taxes on your grandmother. Without the support from Democrats which Republicans are due, McCarthy has been the subject of an immoral insurrection which has prevented him from assuming his ordained seat as speaker. As the crisis continues, More than 210 Democrats still refuse to accept his ascension, while more than 210 Republicans support honoring the results of those elections they agree with.
"Certain elections have consequences!" frothed McCarthy, wielding a bat with a rusty nail in it as he chased this reporter through a dark wood after threatening to kill my family, "WHY DO THE DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO OBEY ME!".
Despite this forceful leadership, Democrats still demand their say.
In other news, Republicans show Bi-Partisan spirit and embrace the true meaning of Democracy in a spirited defence of the individualist principles they were elected on. Refusing to simply rubber stamp Nancy Pelosi's successor in congress. Nancy Pelosi, a Woke Liberal from California, is the leader of the defeated and demoralized Democrats and held some roles in the House for a time. These Republicans, who call themselves "Noble and Glorious Men, each a rugged and handsome defender of the constitution" demand proper accountability from Speaker Pelosi's successor in order to defend the American people. Some called Nancy Pelosi an uncaring and despicable traitor, and Democrats could never fully disprove those claims.
Ain’t that a fucking list
Greene isn't on the list but Boebert is, makes me wonder what that deal with her cost him with the rest
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