The Trump Era Republican internal Civil War contiunes…
Democrats CAN help solve things….
With condition’s though….
That IS a problem fcor some Republicans….
House Republicans are still meeting in private but it’s increasingly clear from their public comments that they can’t pass any plan to let Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) be a temporary acting Speaker with just Republican votes.
CNN reports things are getting heated. At one point, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was told to sit down by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and refused, then Rep. Michael Bost (R-IL “got all emotional” and “was cussing at him” and “telling him it’s all his fault.”
Other Republicans stood up and expressed fury over Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for backing the empowering McHenry resolution, and suggested it was a self-serving move. Some members encouraged him to drop out of speaker’s race.
Playbook: “On Day 17 without an elected speaker, House Republicans appear to be no closer to figuring things out. In fact, they appear to be exploring entirely new frontiers of dysfunction.”
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Democrats…..
House Democrats are at a crossroads — again — as they consider whether to bail out a flailing GOP.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday abandoned a third speaker’s ballot for the moment, instead endorsing a temporary measure to formally empower an acting Republican speaker….
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Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) said that “conversations are continuing until one or two things happen: They’re successful and find a way to move forward. Or, you know our Republican colleagues — demonstrate that they’re not yet ready to move forward.”
As recently as Wednesday, centrist Democrats had been largely on board with a plan to empower McHenry, even without specific concessions, to avoid a shutdown and expedite a response to escalating foreign crises. Those centrist votes, however, could now be in question.
A group of moderate Democrats in the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus plans to huddle virtually Thursday afternoon to discuss the matter, according to a person familiar with discussions. Several of them had been in discussions with the author of the GOP’s McHenry resolution, Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio), about specific assurances that funding bills would come to the floor.
Yet putting those requirements into legislative text ran into parliamentary problems, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Liberal Democrats, for their part, were clear that they opposed the idea of empowering McHenry.
“It is a big problem. And I think it is a big problem because the kinds of assurances that our leader has talked about needing — to make sure that we are not putting this body into the hands of insurrection and election deniers, and that we are really moving only on a bipartisan path are issues that are important to all of us,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said….
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says her party is “absolutely broken”