From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7:30:42 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:   
   > On 10/5/23 9:34 PM, ScottW wrote:    
   > > On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 1:52:06 PM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:    
   > >> On 10/5/23 11:47 AM, ScottW wrote:    
   > >>> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 9:16:36 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:    
   > >>>> On 10/5/23 10:37 AM, ScottW wrote:    
   > >>    
   > >>>>> Perhaps you prefer jack booted thug.    
   > >>>> If I did, I'd vote Republican.    
   > >>>    
   > >>> That's the depth of your understanding. D comes before R    
   > >> I like a good dictionary joke. Another: pride goeth *after* the    
   > >> fall.    
   > >>    
   > >> I guess Republicans think any hard corner going unsoftened by pool    
   > >> noodles is the equivalent of thuggery, to borrow AOC's metaphor.    
   > >    
   > > When you have to borrow from AOC, you're toast.   
   > Hey! Another metaphor! Was it original? Seems kinda cliched.   
   > > I enjoyed watching a dem strategist speculating that Pelosi and Co.    
   > > really f'd up on this. His position was this....McCarthy kept the    
   > > gov't open. Something democrats have long been declaring their top    
   > > priority. McCarthy did that in bipartisan fashion. But still they    
   > > decide to vote with Gaetz and co. to take him out in some bizarre    
   > > political war mentality. Now how will they feel about a Jim Jordan    
   > > taking the reigns as consequence of their vote? Consider....they    
   > > could have saved McCarthy by merely giving a few "present votes". He    
   > > joked that it's not that hard to press the yellow button in the    
   > > middle. Imagine a Republican speaker so damaged and only keeping his    
   > > seat due to dems? But dems couldn't see the political value in that.    
   > > How about having Trump serve a few months in the Speaker's chair? You    
   > > think they might have some regrets for making that possible?   
   > I'm dubious of how "dem" that strategist really is   
      
   Not as dubious as I am of your unsourced private Politico eavesdropping BS.   
      
   >, but to address his    
   > point, it would be unprecedented for the minority party to support the    
   > majority speaker,    
      
     As he said....they didn't even have to support him.  Just not unanimously   
   join with Gaetz in    
   removing him.   
      
   >especially in the absence of a power-sharing deal.    
      
    Will they end up in a worse situation?  Looks very possible if not likely.   
      
   > McCarthy reportedly refused to negotiate with Democrats and if he were    
   > really counting on Pelosi to bail him out, he shouldn't have scheduled    
   > the vote for when she was out of town.    
      
   Why is she out of town when congress is imploding?  There's no excuse for that.   
   There was ample warning.   
      
   >    
   > If anything, the Democrats have supported the imagined moderate    
   > Republican wings for too long.    
   >    
   > If Republicans wish to help Democrats keep the government open and    
   > functioning, it's time for them to support a Speaker Jeffries.   
      
   And that is why we have dysfunctional gov't.   The two party system is   
   collapsing   
   and becoming incapable of actual governing.   
      
   ScottW   
      
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