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You’re wrong about that. It only takes one to make the motion but you better have enough to vote with you to vacate. There were more who would have voted along with Gaetz if it had been necessary. Jordan had 200 on the floor, where votes are on record. Where their constituents could see how they voted. Do you prefer to know how your representative votes, or do you prefer he keep his vote secret? Do you prefer democracy behind closed doors? This is not childish, it’s serious. We are $33trillion in debt, with interest nearing $1trillion per year. It is affecting our ability to defend ourselves. It is as much a threat to our country as China, Russia, and Iran combined. We’ve had interest rates this high before, but not with this much debt. Someone needs to exercise some responsibility and the public is behind doing so. That’s why the reps vote differently depending on whether there is a record of their vote. In public they tend to vote for the public interest. In private they tend to vote for K Street, Wall Street, and the MIC.

You are ignoring what I said. The motion to vacate rule is historic, and Gaetz didn’t do this alone. You can’t call what the Freedom Caucus did a hissy fit without also calling what Emmer and his band of McCarthyites did the same for having not voted for Jordan. The difference is, Jordan sides with the Budget Responsibility group, and McCarthy sides with the Modern Monetary Theory bunch.

The motion to vacate has been around since Jefferson. McCarthy’s problem was he agreed to do a list of things, then failed to do them. He promised to do budget bills by normal order and didn’t. He sent Congress off on a six week vacation instead of staying to work on the bills, and then was found to have made secret plans with Biden and the democrats to pass CRs and omnibus. I didn’t trust him from before he won the seat.

Now, why would that be? It takes you to data for progress.org, the same site-different page- as uncle bernard’s link.

Who most closely resembles the majority of the Republican Party, the Country Club Republicans or the Populist, MAGA Republicans? I’ll give you a hint: who’s leading by a runaway majority in the polls?

McCarthy endorsed Emmer, who will be unlikely to win in my opinion, showing he was never behind Jordan; the two couldn’t be more different. Judging his moves, he is positioning for a return as the only one who can lead the party and never should have been expelled. Kind of an “If I can’t have it, I’ll burn it down” play.

This isn’t about R vs D, it’s about big government, omnibus bill, no accountability spending vs appropriations bills with representatives votes on record. The swamp snakes prefer to vote behind closed doors.

We’re likely to get the best speaker money can buy.

We need an investigation into the bombing of this parking lot.

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It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.

Pecan pie.

What if biology is part of your culture?

I’m still waiting for that definition of a woman.

Haha. Not haha as in you’re funny, more like haha as in you are a joke.

Can you define what a woman is?

Another of your typically flawed assumptions. I’m sad for the passing of your parents and I will respect that. Even if it means I can’t tell how they used to hang a pork chop on your neck to get the dog to play with you. They are now in peace.

Funny. Berquam just said the dims circle the wagons; the republicans circle the firing squads.

That’s not responsive to the question.

Really, really convincing.

By whose order was this battalion created?

That the goal or mission of the American people, nor policy, has been terrorism. The CIA is a different story, though I believe they more accept barbarism than push it. They may teach tactics, kidnapping, and interrogation, but raping, mutilation, beheading, and burning are extracurricular.

Pent up resentment because his mama would avoid going near him. When she fed him in his high chair, she stood on the other side of the room and used a slingshot.

Not in the name of terrorism. Raping, beheading, and burning alive don’t require training. I have a very dim view of the CIA; Tuskegee, Gladio, Northwoods, etc. Truman regretted forming the agency, Eisenhower warned us about them, JFK died trying to eliminate them, Nixon was taken down after making statements to the same effect, yet they still exist, strong as ever. They operate as an entity unto themselves, often beyond even the president’s control. Who’s to blame?

Nor making yet another thread about himself.