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2023-10-13 Home Front: Politix
No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise shockingly drops out of race for speaker as chaos consumes the GOP
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Rep. Steve Scalise was favorite to replace Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

  • He could not get enough support from within his own party and dropped out

  • His chief rival, Trump ally Jim Jordan, will now try to get enough support
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-13 09:28|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Doesn't want to be shot again?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-13 11:13||   2023-10-13 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Beautiful illustration for anyone paying attention that the Pubs are innately unable to close ranks while the dems never have that problem.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-13 11:19||   2023-10-13 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 ..cause the GOPe still thinks it should run things regardless of their repeated failures.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-13 12:00||   2023-10-13 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 The cataclysm of a stalemate in a legislative body that has done nothing but rubber stamp Biden policy since 2022. I would nominate Triumph the insult dog or ChuckECheese and achieve an improved outcome. Only Ukraine is sweating bullets (ours) in this current situation.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-10-13 13:05||   2023-10-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 He couldn't get a majority from the hard supporters of Jim Johnson so he didn't fight it.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-10-13 15:49||   2023-10-13 15:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Kennedy from Louisiana needs to be Speaker
Posted by 746 2023-10-13 19:44||   2023-10-13 19:44|| Front Page Top

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