And so the sad spectacle ends.
From Newt Gingrich to Kevin McCarthy (and really back to Barry Goldwater and the infamous Southern Strategy), this exhibition is the culmination of years of Republican prostitution—-making concessions and deals—-not because you want to do good by the plurality of Americans, but because you want to plunder America’s vast resources for you and your fellows ONLY.
#HouseGOP #McCarthy #Politics #News #History
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64194129.amp
1/3
As a Democrat, this is hilarious but as an American, it is humiliating that the Party of A. Lincoln and Frederick Douglass has descended to this.
And we Americans have the GALL to look down on other countries.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-35524966
2/3
The Republican Party is all about POWER. Power for power’s sake. The lowest form of political strategizing. And not even a husk of insight, self-reflection, or leadership.
“ ‘It just reminds me of what my father always told me — it’s not how you start it’s how you finish. And now we have to finish for the American public to turn around,’ McCarthy said.“
The cost is (and will be) high….for all of us.
3/3
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3803315-mccarthy-concessions-to-win-speakership-raise-eyebrows/
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was forced to give in to a series of demands from detractors to win the support necessary to win the Speaker’s gavel after a historic week of failed ballots. While most GOP lawmakers are downplaying the significance of McCarthy’s concessions, the changes — which are designed to empower rank-and-file members at the…
"Some of McCarthy’s conservative critics have also demanded that any move to raise the nation’s debt ceiling — which allows the government to borrow money to pay its obligations — must be accompanied by cuts in the nation’s entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare. A provision of the new House rules package requires a separate vote on hiking the debt limit."
#SpeakerVote2023
#KevinMcCarthy
#ZeroDaysSinceWhiteNonsense
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Attitudes of conservatives towards Reconstruction, their policy goals in reaction to it. Very interesting to read up on that line of history.
Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
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