"Holy entitlement, Batman! Republicans are furious Democrats didn't save Kevin McCarthy from himself
Democrats are sick of bailing the GOP out of their own messes, and boy, are Republicans whining about it"

"As soon as he was booted, McCarthy laid out his views clearly: Republicans should get to act like drunk bulls savaging china shops, and it's the duty of Democrats to come in quietly after to clean up the mess. "I think today was a political decision by the Democrats," he whined in a press conference after the vote, complaining that the opposition party owed him their votes to protect "the institution."

Reality check: This whole thing only happened because McCarthy, in his desperation to rally Gaetz's arson squad to his side at the beginning of this term, foolishly gave in to their demands to make it easy to vote to vacate the Speaker's seat. It was a Republican, Gaetz, who used that power. There is no reason to expect Democrats to vote for an opposition party's leader, especially when he refuses to offer any concessions in exchange. Yet Republicans were suddenly unified in their echoes of McCarthy's claim that Democrats are obligated to bail Republicans out of problems of the GOP's own making.

Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who has taken over as acting Speaker, complained that Democrats "can't be counted on in a moment like this." Freshman Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., one of 18 GOP lawmakers in districts that President Joe Biden won, claimed on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Democrats should have saved McCarthy to "put the country first." Former George W. Bush official Ari Fleischer griped that "foolish" Democrats were supposedly responsible for the fiasco. Brendan Buck, an aide to former GOP Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner, both of whom resigned after threats to their leadership from within their own caucuses, tweeted that Democrats can't "see past their hatred of McCarthy to recognize how bad a precedent this would be." On Fox News, hosts bellyached, "that's what you get for trusting Democrats." Former Trump aide Stephen Miller blamed Democrats, ignoring that his old boss couldn't be bothered to make a single phone call on McCarthy's behalf. At the Daily Beast, never-Trump Republican Matt Lewis wrote that Democrats "failed to do the right thing on behalf of the American people" by not stopping Republicans from self-destruction. Almost immediately after Tuesday's vote, Republicans in House leadership lashed out at Democrats, threatening to abandon bipartisan working groups and stripping Democrats of office space.

Remember: Democrats actually offered to fish McCarthy out of this situation he'd caught himself in. They just expected a few things in exchange, such as rules changes to prevent this level of chaos. McCarthy offered them nothing but fart noises — and thus got nothing in return. Republicans claim to be the party of "personal responsibility," yet they can never take responsibility for themselves."
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https://www.salon.com/2023/10/05/holy-entitlement-batman-are-furious-democrats-didnt-save-kevin-mccarthy-from-himself/

TB
Bwah, haw, haw

TB

<BigSnip>
The 'Pubes consistently refuse to govern; it's all "show and no go" for the party that no longer seems to have any core values beyond greed and the lust for power.

Enjoy the day,
dmc

On 10/5/2023 7:58 AM, dm_callier wrote:
> <BigSnip>
> The 'Pubes consistently refuse to govern; it's all "show and no go" for the party that no longer seems to have any core values beyond greed and the lust for power.
>
> Enjoy the day,
> dmc

Hey! That's not true! Jeepers! They were able to do the awfully,
terrifically arduous task of governing Pelosi out of her office. I'm
sure that one of these days, if Gaetz and the orange goon allow it,
they'll surely be able to get a light bulb replaced.
HqWhAWhAW!

On 10/7/2023 9:08 AM, kmiller wrote:
> On 10/5/2023 7:58 AM, dm_callier wrote:
>> <BigSnip>
>> The 'Pubes consistently refuse to govern; it's all "show and no go"
>> for the party that no longer seems to have any core values beyond
>> greed and the lust for power.
>>
>> Enjoy the day,
>> dmc
>
> Hey! That's not true! Jeepers! They were able to do the awfully,
> terrifically arduous task of governing Pelosi out of her office. I'm
> sure that one of these days, if Gaetz and the orange goon allow it,
> they'll surely be able to get a light bulb replaced.
> HqWhAWhAW!

Republicans furious? Maybe. Conservatives furious, hardly.
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Thousands of unchecked illegal aliens are crossing the border all the
while I have to get my pecker x-ray'd or get felt up by a TSA agent just
to get on an airplane.