From: pianoforte109@yahoo.com   
      
   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, but to address his   
   point, it would be unprecedented for the minority party to support the   
   majority speaker, especially in the absence of a power-sharing deal.   
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
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