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Well that's no fun! Glad no one was seriously hurt. Stay safe.
There have been a lot of protests/demonstrations in Seattle and and also Bellevue and Redmond which are closer to me, but no disasters yet. We are too rural for them to close.
OK, why did that never happen for me??
Will they announce the results from each ballot, then?
So how is this going to work? Do each of the combatants get to give a speech in front of the whole house? Or just the GOP? or what?
Yes he was! Not the chair's fault the panda was too big for it, though.
They have a lot of choices, but not any good ones.
NINE GOP candidates for speaker.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson, RSC Chair Kevin Hern (Okla.), Reps. Byron Donalds (Fla.), Austin Scott (Ga.), Jack Bergman (Mich.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Gary Palmer (Ala.) and Dan Meuser (Pa.)
PALMER a new name.
How nice! The almond Kringle is the one generally offered at the nursery. I see several others that I would like to try.
Yes. It's a "fruitcake" that is actually good to eat.
A local nursery serves coffee and international dessert samples during the Christmas season. Stollen is always included and my favorite which is Danish Kringle.
It's actually a German Christmas Bread, and quite good.
Most cats like ham. 2 of ours do and the third probably would but he won't take any people food. Since I adopted him in July and he's 7, I can only figure he was trained not to.
They all like fresh cooked chicken- but my oldest cat (14) absolutely adores Costco chicken. I think she would eat the entire thing, given the chance! She also likes Chinese BBQ pork and pretzels, among other things. She's very small- only about 6 lbs. so she can have whatever she wants.
We could use a few more Unicorns..............................
Sure- just like with some brood mares they have their tails cut short. When they retire, they let them grow back out again,
Yes. Actually, a lot of horses would have quite long manes if they weren't kept trimmed.
Gorgeous indeed!
We have a cat that can do that.
The children continue to be children (I don't know the why of this- it just amuses me)
@stephen_neukam
Scoop: Sources in the orbit of Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson tell me those around them would work to crush a speaker campaign by Tom Emmer.
The rift between Emmer and the right wing establishment run deep.
Not in my world! I'm reading a good Sci-fi series, so I'll be in the recliner with a good book, a warm cat, and a cold beer! Happy Friday!
This is just wrong
@Olivia_Beavers
NEW: There’s a new effort underway to get the House GOP to unite behind the next R who wins speaker nomination in Tuesday forum.
Rep. Flood (R-Neb.) is organizing a bloc of Rs who will withhold support from candidates unless they press their supporters to sign a pledge to do so
Here's what they want to have signed.
https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1715488958430200095/photo/1
A new contender - seems sane
INBOX: BERGMAN READY TO SERVE AS SPEAKER TO SAVE HOUSE FROM CONTINUING DYSFUNCTION
INBOX: BERGMAN READY TO SERVE AS SPEAKER TO SAVE HOUSE FROM CONTINUING DYSFUNCTION
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) October 20, 2023
"My hat is in the ring, and I feel confident I can win the votes where others could not. I have no special interests to serve; I’m only in this to do what's best for our Nation..." pic.twitter.com/T8N695qRsZ
So they did this
Rep. Meuser says this vote on reaffirming Jordan as speaker nominee is by secret ballot with three options:
Yes, No and Present
No option to write in another name.
@Olivia_Beavers
Told Jordan pushed for vote to be by secret ballot
Olivia Beavers
@Olivia_Beavers
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Clear difference in what you saw on the House floor
House Republicans increasingly wanted him to drop out but weren't willing to vote against him publicly
@Olivia_Beavers
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Tally:
86 yay
112 nay
5 present
@Olivia_Beavers
There will be a lot of folks throwing their names in the ring this round, from what I’m hearing
Here's a little Friday humor
@acksound
“I would call House Republicans a clusterfuck, but a cluster implies some sense of unity, they’re more like a scatter-fuck. I’ve seen more organized groups of seagulls fighting over a potato chip."
This would seem to be the best part
@KlasfeldReports
To state the obvious:
Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro's back-to-back plea deals avert a trial that would have given Trump and his co-defendants a preview of the DA's evidence.
The dominoes are beginning their fall!
That's terrific!
Look here.....
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
Pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case
I'm for Newmed's Chaplin. However- Jeffries would be good.
That I don't know.
Does he not understand that getting less votes each time is not good?
Nancy Pelosi was right when she said the R's needed a math class.
No- I wouldn't think so.
@Olivia_Beavers
JORDAN loses third ballot
TALLY:
Jeffries-210
Jordan-194
Scalise-8
McHenry-6 (Dems clap and some Rs yell Aye as McHenry says it)
Zeldin-4
McCarthy-2
Donalds-2
Westermna, Garcia, Emmer-1
And well they should be. He's already lost this round..............
And...............we're off
@Olivia_Beavers
MCCARTHY nominating Jordan for speaker
Get your popcorn- here's a start
@Jose_Pagliery
·New York judge threatened to jail the former American president for "blatantly" violating a gag order prohibiting him from attacking court staff.
It's a rainy, blustery Friday in NYC. The judge overseeing Donald Trump's bank fraud trial is set to rip him to shreds today.
The reason? The former president ignored a gag order and would not delete a post attacking court staff.
No, didn't.
Yes, it posted the URL, but not the picture.
he does and he would get no help from, the dems
2020 election certification
Arrington opposed certifying the electoral vote count in the 2020 presidential election,[36] citing "millions of American voters" who felt that the election "was not conducted in an equitable or accurate manner." He later condemned the attack on the United States Capitol that occurred on January 6, 2021.[37] In the weeks that followed, Arrington voted against the second impeachment of President Trump.
new intry?
@Olivia_Beavers
New: Rep. Kay Granger, Approps Committee chair, has pitched the idea of supporting a fellow Texan for speaker to others in her delegation, floating Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), two Rs tell me & @sarahnferris
Texas Rs meeting tmrw at her request
which box? I use the Full editor box.
It is just really hard to grasp that this is an actual reality show. And maybe only 3-4 of them have any idea what they look like to the rest of the world.
LOL! I went for the good stuff- it's too offset the bad stuff from the GOP.
But now there's this.- I have NO idea what would happen next.
In a closed-door meeting Thursday, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told GOP colleagues he might resign as speaker pro tempore if Republicans push him to try to move legislation on the floor without an explicit vote to expand his powers, according to multiple lawmakers in the room.
“If you guys try to do that, you’ll figure out who the next person on Kevin’s list is,” McHenry told the room, three sources said, referring to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's secret list of GOP lawmakers who would serve as temporary speaker in the event of a vacancy.
McHenry's comments underscore the quandary Republicans are in: They can't really do anything until they choose a new speaker, but they can't agree on someone who can get the votes to be that new speaker.
And McHenry is unwilling to set a precedent that would give future temporary speakers the full power of speakers who are elected on the House floor. It could mean that the House wouldn't need to elect speakers in the future.
It's an idea that McCarthy himself has been floating, and it was the subject of debate during Republicans' 3½-hour private meeting Thursday. During the discussion, some Republicans asked whether they could give McHenry more power "by acclamation" or whether they needed to take an internal vote in the room.
It's a different idea from the formal resolution proposed by Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, which would require a floor vote to empower McHenry to move legislation like spending bills and aid packages for Ukraine and Israel.
A GOP lawmaker described McHenry's remarks as an implicit threat of resignation. The lawmaker said McHenry had made the same suggestion to individual members before he spoke to the larger conference.
A second GOP lawmaker said that McHenry made the remarks “tongue in cheek” but that the message was clear: He questioned the constitutionality of such an option and said he did not want the greater authority unless Republicans agreed to grant it to him through a formal vote.
McHenry “will not act in a manner he interprets as unconstitutional” as speaker pro tem, a third member in the room said.
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In individual conversations with members, McHenry also has threatened to resign as speaker pro tem if such a resolution were passed on the floor, the GOP lawmaker said.
McHenry's office did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
McCarthy has been one of the most vocal proponents of the idea that McHenry does not need the House to allow him to bring legislation to the floor.
“When I put McHenry’s name down it was my belief that if something happened to me that McHenry could run the floor until we elected a new speaker. It was not my intention when I put a name down that they couldn’t do anything,” McCarthy told reporters after Thursday's meeting, during which lawmakers debated whether to vote on Joyce’s resolution.
McCarthy was referring to the fact that since 2003, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, House rules have required the speaker to submit a list of names to the clerk of members to act in case of a vacancy in the position and to ensure continuity of government.
McHenry has consistently denied any interest in expanding his role.
“I’m focused on electing Jim Jordan, the speaker nominee, as speaker of the House,” he told reporters Thursday when he briefly left the conference meeting. “That’s my goal. That’s my purpose.”
Scott Wong
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/patrick-mchenry-house-speaker-pro-tempore-threaten-quit-rcna121314