UPDATE: Friday, Jan 6, 2023 · 3:30:51 AM +00:00 · Proginoskes
… So what does Hakeem Jeffries say? Just that McCarthy agrees to a few terms:
- McCarthy and five of his Republican colleagues agree to vote to raise the debt ceiling.
- The Motion to Vacate the Chair Rule, change the number of required complainers to something like 225.
- The Holman Rule is dead; it never makes it to a vote.
- Congresscritters Biggs, Bishop, Boebert, Berkin, Cloud, Clyde, Crane, Donalds, Gaetz, Good, Gosar, Green, Harris, Luna, Miller, Norman, Ogles, Perry, Rosendale, and Roy [I’ve probably misspelled a few names here, but I don’t really care.], who have blocked McCarthy’s Speakership bid: None gets a chairmanship or a committee, and if McCarthy wants to bury any of them, the Democrats will bring the shovels.
- No Biden impeachment, no mention of Hunter Biden’s laptop, no investigation of the FBI, Twitter, or Fauci.
Episode #106 of the Countdown podcast is up.
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- (1:33) SPECIAL COMMENT: OK, you guys. I got it. I got the solution to the Republican debacle over the endless Sisyphean votes for Speaker of the House. BEFORE Congress convenes at Noon, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries walks into Kevin McCarthy’s office and says “Kevin! Do you WANT to be Speaker? Do you REALLY want to Speaker? I can MAKE you Speaker. Right now.” And he hands him a small index card which reads “212 DEMOCRATIC VOTES” and then he says ...
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- (29:19) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: He was the most famous newscaster in Los Angeles from 1960 through 2002 and he had the most famous sign-on catchphrase and everybody in Southern California knew it by heart — except for the night HE FORGOT IT.
Well, I think the GOP did more damage today than Keith. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.