Tom Emmer drops out hours after becoming the latest Republican pick for speaker

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Washington Post

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the House majority whip, and the third Republican speaker pick since the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), had been elected as the GOP nominee on an internal ballot earlier Tuesday. However, it became clear that he could not attract a majority vote on the full House floor because of Republican holdouts in the narrowly divided chamber. Former president Donald Trump took direct aim at Emmer as he was trying to convert holdouts. In a social media post, Trump called Emmer a RINO — Republican in name only — and “totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/24/house-speaker-vote/

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[ColinC]

1. ...

[JenniferJuniper]

2. Well. Bye.

[Ray Bruns]

10. Even Curly Bill thinks so

https://m.

[BootinUp]

3. I figured he was a dead end. How long will this go on?

[ZonkerHarris]

4. hahahahahahahahaha

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Looks like the @NBCNews ticker of how long it's been without a House speaker is going to keep on going...

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[BumRushDaShow]

9. ALL of those media need to put a counter in the corner of the screen just like that

Seriously.

If the Democrats had gone through this, bet every outlet would have done that by now.

[Rebl2]

19. Agreed

If the shoe was on the other foot, you might say, and it was democrats going through this, republicans in the House would be screaming their heads off.

[yardwork]

27. I can't even imagine the headlines if the Democrats did this.

[William Seger]

31. Well, it WOULD be much more shocking if Democrats did this

Republican incompetence in this House is almost a dog-bites-man story.

[calimary]

38. Oooo, almost 21 days!

20 days, 23 hours. At 1:35pm - assuming Eastern time. And we’re well beyond that by now, in any U.S. time zone.

So make it 21 days now. Three whole weeks. And it’s only Tuesday.

[llmart]

6. What a hot mess!

If I were a regular Republican (are there any left any more?), I'd be embarrassed to admit it these days.

[ificandream]

7. LOL...

[question everything]

8. I wish that he took his chances with a full house vote, hoping for Democrats to join

unless this would have been a kiss of death

That Whiny got his is really scary

[Army Brat]

25. Agree completely

And maybe get something.

It's fun to watch, but eventually they will get a speaker and it could be someone worse.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I seriously doubt they have any intention

of electing a Speaker. This way they get everything they want (No aid for Ukraine or Israel, government shut down, economy destroyed, etc.). Then they are all set for the only way to save the country is a full Trump dictatorship.

And the beauty of it for them is all they have to do is nothing at all. No action at all is they only action they are qualified for or capable of.

[erronis]

23. Eggsactly. And that's what they're very good at doing. Nothing.

Leader Putin has them by the gonads.

[yardwork]

28. This may happen but I doubt it's intentional.

The Repubs aren't that organized.

[Mr.Bill]

29. It didn't take all of them to get us to this point.

Just a certain amount of bomb throwers.

[not fooled]

35. I think you're onto something

No speaker no congress aligns with tuberville, vance et al. blocking appointments etc.

The only thing that might cause them to change course is if they think continuing to not perform will cost them the House. And that's only if they think the votes will count.

What a disgusting situation. The Confederacy has found a way to stymie the North.

[Ohioboy]

12. Trump leads republicans around by the short hairs

It pisses me off, because We The People voted Trump out, and through republicans he still holds power. Un-American as hell!

[Traildogbob]

20. Grab em by the pubes.

That let ya do that when you own em.

[orleans]

13. he wasn't qualified b/c he voted to certify the 2020 election

even tho he "signed onto an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election results. "

(but that wasn't good enf for the gqp)

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-speaker-vote-live-updates-10-24-2023/

[bluedigger]

14. Close the government and close the courts.

Trump is a mastermind alright.

[ificandream]

15. I would disagree they won't elect a Speaker for two reasons.

1) Too many of them care about the Israel/Gaza situation. They aren't as emotional over Ukraine.
2) The longer they lapse, the worse it looks for the party. Even with Trump's leash, there are, I think, enough Repughs who will either sit out the next election or vote for Biden because they blame Trump for the disorder.

[riversedge]

16. Emmer lasted 1.67% of a scaramucci........

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[Efilroft Sul]

41. We're now measuring time in Minimuccis.

[calimary]

43. Lasted 1.67% of a scaramucci!?!?!

Makes me want to add “…can you do the fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening, Galileo!…”

But Galileo would be as reasonable a nominee as anybody, except for being dead since 1642..

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. There isn't a leader in the bunch.

And that includes their dear leader who is nothing but a mob boss and career criminal.

[dalton99a]

18. Sure enough. The traitor is in firm control of the GOP

[SergeStorms]

21. As soon as Hair Furor....

got on "truth" social and proclaimed Emmer a "RINO" and not fit to be his official ass-kisser, Emmer was cooked.
Enough GQP representatives are still in Trump's baggy pocket to kill any designs members have of wanting to be Speaker, without pledging their undying allegiance to Hair Furor first.
Most republiCAN'T representatives are still afraid of Trump's flying monkeys, although a few are starting to break away.

[thesquanderer]

22. The last straw was probably the horse head in his bead/ (n/t)

[iemanja]

24. The GOP has lost the plot

Don't they get embarrassed at a certain point? What a disaster they are.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. Embarrassed? That would require some sense of "shame".

Jordan, Boebert, MGT, Santos, not a shred of consience among them.

[PSPS]

30. LOL. I guess his ass-kissing trip to MAL to try to make up with trump didn't work.

[Lonestarblue]

32. It's somewhat entertaining to watch Republicans make fools of themselves, but we need

a functioning government, not a circus with clowns performing for their audience of one. These idiots are making Nancy Pelosi look like a rock star, which she is!

[ejbr]

33. Clowns

[Bayard]

34. Who's left?

Anybody who may be worth a damn?

[prodigitalson]

36. seems that's what you do

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. The Repukes have proven they don't serve America, only the slobfather

[AllyCat]

39. Hahaha!!! Did y'all hear about Qevin asking to be reinstated with Gym

As assistant???!!! On Joy Reid.

[Delphinus]

40. What?!

[keithbvadu2]

42. That was quick.! They're getting more efficient at incompetence.

[Ray Bruns]

44. I know this will probably mean the destruction of our country but

https://m.

[joshdawg]

45. Last I heard was that mike johnson

has been picked to be the next victim. A trumper, election denier, and loser.

[Deep State Witch]

46. I Hope Their Constitutents

Have taken note of this chaos and will reward them by voting them out. This is ridiculous. They're reduced to backbenchers and their "cool Black friend" that hasn't even had a full term in Congress yet.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

47. They picked him, rallied around him

As the picture shows.

Then the Orange Degenerate “signaled the conference to push him out”, so they did.

Absolute fucking sheep.