Former Obama adviser, David Axelrod, weighs in on the vote for Speaker of the House as Kevin McCarthy appears to lose the 7th round of voting. #CNN #News
‘He’s surrendered’: Axelrod on Kevin McCarthy’s concessions
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I throughly enjoyed watching him flounder over the past few days. Nobody deserves it more.
@Madison Gittens The alternative is to hold a nice big super spreader event, and only invite the MAGA crowd. Perhaps enough far left Republicans will become to ill, to show up, and the number of votes needed will change.
@Blessing John Chelliah The Constitution merely states the House will make its own rules, by which to elect a Speaker. Problem is, the rules committee cannot meet until a Speaker is in place.
@O SNOOPY SNOOP 10th time 😂
@LoveMyGolden THEY DIDN’T EVEN ASK HALF THE PEOPLE AND HE HAD ALREADY LOST MORE THAN THE 4 OR 5 VOTES HE COULD LOSE = 10 GOP VOTES AGAINST HIM SO FAR AND COUNTING 😅🤣😂🤣😂
I JUST LAUGH AT TRUMP’S #1 AZZ-LICKER WHO THOUGHT HIM BECOMING SPEAKER WUZ AUTOMATIC=NOT 🤣😂🤣🤣
@LoveMyGolden 11TH NOW & COUNTING 😂
McCarthy needs to go somewhere and sit down! It’s reached a point beyond ridiculous.
Way past that point 😜
When all you want to naked power. He “earn” Karma.
A house divided against itself shall not stand. Nobody fail an exam 8 times in 3 days and qualify for promotion.
@O SNOOPY SNOOP 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!
@Daniel Evans You’re right about McCarthy. He really should back off and let someone else have a shot.
But how do you fail the GED twice? You study the questions as they would be on the test.
And I’m not so sure she has read the constitution by some of the things she has said in the recent past. But then there is no way to prove she hasn’t. There is a lot to be said for being able to comprehend what is written.
For me, the past six years have had me going back and reading the constitution over and over again.
From the bill of rights onward it’s been like going back into a civics class.
@Big Earl THEY TOLD HIM THAT HE MADE HISTORY TODAY AND HE LAUGHED ABOUT IT LIKE IT WUZ A GOOD THANG 😅😂😅😂😅
@Paul Tyrrell. Under the Biden administration the country is healing from the ORANGE SLIME’S mis-handling of the country. We see that happening.
@Big Earl ikr? The past few years have had me studying up old Supreme Court cases as well, as it seems nothing these days is presented accurately when it comes up. I’ve even started reading tax law, which is as boring as it sounds, to understand the recent chatter about Trump. I’m due for a re-read of the Constitution in its entirety.
After all these back room compromises, deals and concessions… If McCarthy somehow worms his way into this position he will be powerless. He’ll only have the title.
It’s only a trophy. He won’t even care.
@Richard I figured it must be something like that, since nobody seems to be trying to enlighten us about how things could be different if this guy takes over from that birthing person.
( clue me in on your refutational postings if ya got ‘em!!)
POsted day six from 🇨🇦 authoress.
It seems they spend a bit of time describing how an unpopular speaker in a polarized voting entity is like being the tiger’s smallest tooth.
But is there some history over Nancy’s way of running things that didn’t either start that way or end up there.
Talking about her circa minute five?
Oh yeah the tiger quote.
Well if we digitize it then we see that baby tooth balanced on the tigers back. But instead of going to tiger tummy he stay in tigers mouth.
Then tiger tamer put the muzzle over the mouth and let tiger starve to death!!
It’s probably a little more complicated then that.
The title is all he wants. 🤙🏻
@David Crandall
Do you think this Republican led Congress
plans on doing anything other than investigate the hell out of everyone they don’t like?
Watch Lawrence O’Donnell’s segment from last night (January 5th). He makes a lot of very valid points.
Of course, that’s just a suggestion. Lol?
What else is new? Neither has the present “acting” President.
Jeffries for the WIN!!! 🤣💙
@dai iahi 🤣🤣🤣🤣 is not going to happen you are dreaming🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Perry Mason XIX what the hell is the Mega crowd?🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Mike w where did you learn to read??? I never said mega… go back to third grade.
Yes you did so stop denying it you Progressive weirdo
Jeffries is a very smart and capable man.
“Like crabs 🦀 in a bucket” that’s so bad. 😅😅😅😅 cracked me up.
MCCARTHY JUST LOST FOR THE 9TH TIME A FEW MINUTES AGO 😂😂😂
Saw an analogy to scorpions recently .
A few Democrats really got to go over and bail them out of this because kowtowing to extremist Nazi election deniers’ bad ideas is a worse situation
Same here…🤣 🦀🗑
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Watching Kev fail makes me laugh so hard. Bootlicking the trump didn’t work! 😂😂😂
@Joan Frellburg THERE’S 6-8 PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY’RE NEVER-KEVINER’S SO THIS COULD GOING ON FOR WEEKS OR MONTHS, EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE SAID THEY’RE WATCHIN’ & JUST SHAKING THEIR HEADZ 😂😂😂
Maybe he should have aimed a little higher in his “licking” endeavors.
@Joan Frellburg Engine, engine, number nine — comin’ down the railroad line — time for ol’ Mc — Carthy to get off . . . etc. 🎷 🎵
NOT ANYMORE
@bobbytookalook Slip slidin away, slip slidin away ay, he’s no more near his destination the more he’s slidin away 🎵🎶
McCarthy: “So I just need you to find me 11,780 more votes…..which is one more than I have.” 🤣🤣
Kevin looks like that Indian on the test pattern to me. Just sayin’. No offence to the rightful owners of this land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern#/media/File:RCA_Indian_Head_Test_Pattern.svg
Didn’t work that time either 😂🤪😂🤪❗
Hahaha
😊😅😮😂😢
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens to those who sell their own souls, their balls and their spines. They end up with nothing.
@O SNOOPY SNOOP Wait… do you think that matters in any way? Don’t tell me CNN and MSNBC talking about it fooled you into thinking you libtards somehow win something. Hopefully your knowledge is better than that. And why do you losers keep bringing up MAGA? How much does Trump own you? I mean, he’s all you clowns ever talk about. How much does he scare you?
Your sooo right 👍 👍 👍
@Shlep Messing WHAT DO THE REPUBLICANS WIN SINCE ANYTHING THEY DO FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS HAS TO PASS THE DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED SENATE AND JOE BIDEN=OOOPSY SO DO YOUR INVESTIGATIONS SINCE BIDEN HAS PARDON POWER BCUZ THAT’S ALL THESE UN UNITED REPUBLICANS CAN DO & REP. PETE SESSIONS JUST SAID TO ERIN BURNETT THAT 7-8 WILL NEVER YEILD THEIR “NO” VOTES 😅😂🤣
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
But wait, 365 days from Now Republicans will be even more lost
McCarthy is underestimating the clowns he supported all these years. You hire clowns, you get a circus.
How in the hel l did Lauren Boebert get re-elected? Somebody? Anybody?
Kevin is one of those clowns. His past and the lack of a real agenda means he has no business in this role
“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of a tiger ends up inside.”
@William Huang Love that proverb.
@August Kling Donald Trump is the ultimate swamp creature.
McCarthy loses anyway this goes. And he thoroughly deserves this.
It doesn’t help Republicans when you still have Donald Trump going around calling Nancy Pelosi “crazy “. The man just doesn’t get it.
Pelosi is not just crazy witch, she a wicked witch
@Achim Wokeschtla Go to Truth Socialism
pelosi is crazy and senile like all the rest are including trump!
@Ian Faust Okay racist.
@Red Rick Witches are a Race?
If Kevin was a decent man, the solution to this would have been obvious to him. Offer to hand over the speakership to the democrats if the hardliners do not play ball and mean it. The hardliners hate the democrats more than they do him.
Doesn’t the Dems’ speaker still need to be elected? McCarthy can’t just hand it over, can he?
@Shie H. Hakeem only needs a few more votes. Kevin and co. should give it to him.
@Shie H. The Dems have already elected their speaker!
Hakeem Jeffries!
McConnel is the one In the way!
@Shie H. There’s only a single Speaker of the House, not one per party.
Very sad and scary for the whole World to see this unraveling of sanity in our democracy.
the democrats and severely cripple the power of congress
This was their plan. They want to destroy our government. Make a mockery of democracy and create a no win blockade against the senate. They will severely cripple the power of congress
I love it. This is Democracy at its best. The rest of the the World can learn from what is happening with the Republicans.
NO! Quite the contrary. This is democracy. Disagreeing, negotiating, = the time is finally over when Nancy can say – EVERYBODY JUMP
and the Congress asks – Nancy – how high?
The fact that George Santos felt he could lie like he did, and his party would accept it as long as he won says everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party in 2023. The fact he was largely correct given how many everyday conservatives are giving “whataboutisms” that Biden lied, etc., so why can’t we do it, or the fact that they were impressed with his lies about working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup shows in the first place, shows how utterly lost a portion of the American public are.
How can they whine about inflation and greedy politicians and then be impressed by a person working for the same notorious hedge funds and investment banks that defrauded investors and the American public at large, leading to the Great Recession in 2008? And then excuse those lies, just because they won, anyways? It’s pathetic.
Having Matt Gaetz tell McCarthy he needs to vacate the Speaker’s Office is priceless!! LMAO
@The Ripper but she’s only 4ft 11 lol
@rashida7777 he’s got a wife? Lol
@The Ripper teens for entertaining his political ambitions
@Cappiece for some freaks it’s not about the size of the women. Just an age can turn pedophiles on. Alot of creeps are married just to put on a front.
@donald cook I want to see interviews from their voters that voted the circus into Congress. Bet you they blame antifa and blm. This is fake news for them and secretly they elected Donald Trump as speaker. Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I deeply respect the woman doing the counting for keeping a straight face when Gaetz said “Donald Trump” at 3:05.
“He’s surrendered”; he has practiced it long enough. He was doing it in the privacy of mar-a-lago. Now he is doing it public!
Six moderates voting for Jeffries could blow the Chaos Caucus out of the water. I bet the moderates could get a better deal with Jeffries than if McCarthy gets the Speakership. Those who want to govern will find a way.
How many independents are available?
Kevin McCarthy should ask Brad Raffensperger from Georgia to find him some votes.😂
😂
Hahaha that’s a good one!!! 👍😆
😊😅😮😂
Perfect one
😂😂😂😂
He needs the TANK FROM ATLANTA – Stacey Abrahms
I agree.After so many concessions the position is so watered down it’s not worth bothering with.
😠 Fuk Jim Fleming what you saying here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWZeLa9aeg
Falar com O Sr. António é como viajar no tempo, é sonhar acordado, é uma lição de
He’ll be as useless as George Santos, or whatever his name is, whoever he is!
We could ask him but he doesn’t seem to know himself!😄😄