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    9 months ago

    “They put us in this ditch along with eight traitors,” Rogers said at the Capitol. “We’re still the majority party, we’re willing to work with them, but they gotta tell us what they need.”

    You put yourself in the ditch by constantly pandering to the extremists, not standing up to defend norms, and going along with “one person can kill the Speakership”. We’ve been warning you guys for years and suddenly it’s our fault?

    Rogers said the disarray in the House is endangering US national security

    Funny, you don’t seem to have that issue with Tuberville blocking all the military nominations because he can’t stop thinking about other people’s genitals.

    Another Republican, David Joyce of Ohio, told reporters he’s contacted Democrats about expanding the authority of acting Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry of North Carolina so that the House can act on legislation. Joyce said he has proposed granting McHenry such powers for a limited period of time — perhaps 30 or 60 days

    Nope. You guys got yourselves into this mess, you get to sort your own shit out. Not our circus, not our monkeys.

    Steve Womack, a senior Republican appropriator, supports that idea. The “only other option,” he said, is for Democrats to lower the threshold needed to elect a speaker by merely voting present.

    Nope. Again, you guys did this to yourselves. Not our circus, not our monkeys.