Memo to just about every damn TV talker I have heard so far today:

[Atticus]

PLEASE stop wasting everyone's time by discussing how McCarthy will have to "reach across the aisle" and "be bipartisan" in order to---GOVERN!

HE HAS NO INTENT TO "GOVERN"! He had to agree not to in order to get his name on the door of the office he moved into days before it took 15 elections to "earn" the title "Speaker".

He will do as the likes of Gaetz and Boebert demand. In other words, "investigate", slander, destroy---rinse and repeat.

( UNLESS---several House insurrectionists are indicted. )

[Lovie777]

1. Their intent is to destroy as many USA's institutions as possible .....

will they succeed, doubtful. Will they keep the house, hell no.

[Ferrets are Cool]

37. I think their ultimate goal, if they can even think that far ahead, is an authoritarian government..

with THEM in charge.

[live love laugh]

2. All that attention is taken from January 6. They stole

attention by hosting a circus — on purpose.

[cilla4progress]

4. I'm starting to think this..

Although they came across as asses in the chamber last night. Maybe Rogers didn't get the memo?

In any case, we have to outsmart and outmaneuver them!

And we have to believe we are up to it!

Faith, my friend!

[Bluethroughu]

15. Exactly!

[Samrob]

32. We are up to it! You must have missed Jeffries speech?

They are armed with lies and the gavel.

We are armed with truth and the President.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "discussing how McCarthy will have to 'reach across the aisle'"

Let me be the first to say that they NORMALLY would have demanded the reverse - that "Democrats need to 'reach across the aisle'" and cowtow to the dysfunctional MAGats, always directing the onus to be on Democrats to act, NEVER on the GOP.

So perhaps this could be considered a temporary "aberration" from how they usually frame things.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. Yes, the tv pundits usually blame the Democrats, so this is a switch for now.

[erronis]

5. A perfect summation. I hope some of the M$M actually acknowledge this.

[LakeArenal]

6. If only one Representative can ask to get rid of Mc Carthy

Why don’t we Dems call for it everyday. On Congressperson at a time?

[SeattleVet]

7. I believe their rule specifies the challenge from a member of 'the majority party'

[Atticus]

10. That may be correct---I don't know---but it contradicts what Kornacki said last night. nt

[LakeArenal]

17. That's what I heard too.

[Eyeball_Kid]

27. That can't be. McCarthy is the Speaker of the HOUSE. n/t

[Genki Hikari]

40. Why do this?

Stay out of it.

McCarthy isn't going anywhere, no matter how many times the extremists pitch a hissy fit crying for him to go. They don't have the votes to remove him, and it's unlikely that they ever will.

People are freaking out about the one-person call for nothing.

Relax. Really. And buy popcorn for all the times they'll run smack dab into that self-own brick wall, head first. It'll be like watching a live-action version of Wile E. Coyote with an endless supply of anvils.

[MLAA]

8. Exactly

[lame54]

9. Their agenda is revenge

[spooky3]

13. and protection from prosecution and confusing their voters. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

30. pick up where Benghazi left off. Let us hope a few are indicted for 1/6 but I would not bet on it.

[Paladin]

11. Bullseye, Atticus. (nt)

[Corgigal]

12. They want us,

the regular citizens of this country to live like Russians. They want to steal anything they can from us , to give to their owners. They would like a bird dog fee.

I can’t watch the news today, will read stupidity instead. Seems not to hit my central nervous system the same way.

[3catwoman3]

14. As has often been said before, they do NOT want...

...to govern, they want to RULE.

[bdamomma]

28. and give tax

cuts to their donors again. And screw Americans.

[dalton99a]

16. Yep. The crazies are in charge

[malthaussen]

19. He doesn't have to.

He's got the job, now. He can just ignore every deal he made with the fringe elements to get there. But he's obviously enough of a suck-up to DJT and the radical elements that he will indulge them anyway.

But so what, the GOP never had any intent to "govern," they don't even have a platform other than "do shit that will own the Libs." The deals he had to make to get elected won't change any of that.

The media, of course, will never acknowledge that. Because their role is to invent gravitas no matter the clown show, so that they may appear judicious and grave themselves.

-- Mal

[liberalhistorian]

20. A friend noted that the

media, their talking heads, and too many pundits just cannot seem to handle that they can't use the "Dems in disarray" trope that they usually trot out like group think clockwork, that there's simply no way to spin it to that affect this time. We found it truly hilarious.

[calimary]

22. Awwwww... Did we just pee all over their talking points?

Well boo-hoo-hoo. They can cry me a river.

[yardwork]

21. Truth.

[NullTuples]

23. His goals from two years ago have not changed!

He was and still is, a supporter of insurrection and the overthrow of the US Government.

[housecat]

24. and sentenced by a Biden-appointed judge

[bdamomma]

25. McCarthy made

concessions with Terrorists period.

[Genki Hikari]

41. With fingers crossed behind his back

Because he's just enough smarter than them to know if his lunatic fringe party has this much trouble getting him into the speaker's chair, they're not going to be any better at getting him out of it.

He's got a whole lot more supporters in the not Traitor Caucus than he does in it. He can promise the little terrors anything, and get out of it later.

And there won't be a dang thing they can do to stop him. The fractures in the party are widening, not disappearing. They're just about coming to blows against each other, already, and that will not be improving any time soon.

[Alice Kramden]

26. K&R n/t

[appleannie1]

29. I totally agree. If not he will go on the chopping block he gave them to get rid of him.

[Genki Hikari]

42. You're in for a rude awakening about that one

They don't have the votes to remove him.

Really.

[appleannie1]

44. Maybe not, but that is not going to stop them from putting it up for a vote every week.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Interesting how opposed they are to beefing up the IRS. Is it because they are all tax cheats?

Right. Only suckers and losers pay taxes.

[nwliberalkiwi]

33. Do Not Cave to the Republicans

When the Republicans shut down the government the Democrats should not cave into the demands of the Republicans. This would be a death by a hundred wounds. I am very afraid for Social Security and Medicare. The Democrats need to stand firm, and not back down!!!

[liberalla]

36. Yes, the solution is INDICTMENTS!

Please please please - do it soon!

[beaglelover]

39. I'm really not worried about the HoR at all. We control the Senate and the POTUS.

The HoR can't do anything to destroy any programs. Nothing crazy they pass will pass in the Senate. The HoR will just overplay their hand as they always do and we'll retake the HoR, keep the Senate and the POTUS in 2024.

[Genki Hikari]

43. Thank you

It's like too many people think that the r thugs will get whatever they want, when they don't have the power to do jack.

Sure, the worst of them will try to shut down the government this fall, but that will not turn out well for them. We'll have a few days of hurt, and then some kind of deal will get made with the Democrats to save the world. Well, after their donors pay off enough purple-district r thugs to save their fortunes.

[Meowmee]

45. Obstruction of gov seems to be the goal

“ ( UNLESS---several House insurrectionists are indicted. )”

Very unlikely, which is lunacy in itself.