On Wednesday, for the second time in roughly 24 hours, Jim Jordan misplaced a vote to grow to be Speaker of the Home. He didn’t win the gavel by dint of twenty-two Republicans, an much more embarrassing end result than the day prior, when 20 of his colleagues voted for different candidates.
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Jordan’s back-to-back losses comply with greater than two weeks of what may charitably be referred to as a shitshow dumpster fireplace of biblical proportions that, as Self-importance Honest’s Molly Jong-Quick put it, “is perhaps entertaining if the American folks weren’t reliant on these folks to fund the federal authorities in a bit greater than a month.” Now, with no precise answer in sight, Republicans have coalesced round a brand new plan: Blame all of it on the Democrats.
On Wednesday, in a logic-defying interview, Consultant Austin Scott tried to say to CNN’s Brianna Keilar that it was Democrats—not Republicans—who have been chargeable for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster earlier this month, even if (1) it was actually engineered by Consultant Matt Gaetz and (2) Republicans are the bulk get together within the Home.
“Ninety-six % of the votes got here from Democrats,” Scott mentioned. “So, Brianna, I imply, simply factually talking, there have been solely eight Republicans and there have been 208 Democrats [who voted to oust McCarthy].” To this, Keilar responded, “However, sir, who’s within the majority?” Extremely, Scott’s reply was, “Nicely, the Democrats have been the vast majority of that vote.”
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