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I think one of the most important statements McCarthy has said in this entire ordeal is this:

“I’m a Republican. I’m a conservative that wants to get things done. I know we live in – our government’s designed to have compromise, but look, we are in the majority. You don’t surrender,” he said..

This is another example of Republicans saying the quiet part out loud. Again. He blatantly and specifically said that the party knows they're supposed to be compromising, but they just don't want to.

It's sad to say, but this is what politics has become in this country. You're either in the majority or you might as well just stay home. But McCarthy himself has now said that compromise with the minority party isn't a thing, Democrats need to remember this next time they have full control. Fuck even attempting to compromise with Republicans as they've made it clear that they have no intentions of compromising with you when the shoe is on the other foot.

The Democrats need to seize full control in 2024, and when McCarthy isn't in power any more and complains about the Democrat majority, they can just respond by throwing his own words back at him.

This news follows McCarthy's statement that he won't give Dems anything to save his Speakership.

K-Mc: I offer you nothing.

D's: Okay.

An under-appreciated point here is that with McCarthy gone, the math for somebody else to become Speaker is that much harder, and the odds of that person needing to rely on Democratic votes - and to make major, major concessions to get them - commensurately higher; in other words, just because McCarthy wouldn't make a deal with Democrats to remain Speaker, it doesn't mean that somebody else won't eventually make one to become Speaker.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) “definitively” called for a vote against any procedural motion to delay the motion to vacate, Punchbowl News reports.

He also instructed Democrats to vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-NY).

The Washington Post says Democrats will not vote present and the caucus is unified.

See ya later Kev

Remember, Nancy Pelosi had an identically small House majority over the last two years and this stuff didn’t happen. This is not a “both sides” phenomenon; the two parties are not mirror images of each other.

This news follows McCarthy’s statement that he won’t give Dems anything to save his Speakership.

Ah yes, the power play of showing up to the negotiation, slamming the door, and walking away. Bold move, let's see how it plays out.

They should just elect a Democratic speaker. Republicans only work as contrarians anyway, and they should realize that having Pelosi to hate on and not having to actually have consistent policy positions within their party because they aren't in leadership was a gift to their style of politics.

The Republicans basically boiled themselves down to shitty business people and criminals. None of them know how to negotiate because they are simply shit bags, that’s just what they are. Simple. Shitty. GOP.

I was hoping the article would go into who is angling to replace McCarthy. Who would want the job?

Kevin is gonna be the first Speaker in our history to be kicked out of office, lol. Great job, shit-head!

Absolutely wild that they wouldn't oust Gaetz for being a criminal who has broken all of their ethics rules as well but might actually oust him over this. Also I thought McCarthy was going to step down if even one person wanted him to - why would there be a vote held? The US desperately deserves more votes of no confidence type events.

It's way past time. Democrats need to behave like there's a civil war on and the GOP started it.

The way the text here it phrased, it sounds like McCarthy wronged the Democrats by giving them nothing, and they're getting him back by letting him go. But the article makes it clear that they asked for nothing and he expects nothing from them, and respects that.

No need to imply animosity and back biting between McCarthy and the Dems that isn't there.

It's more like "you do your thing, we'll do our thing, and that's OK, no matter how it turns out."

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him.

“They haven’t asked for anything. I’m not going to provide anything,” McCarthy said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“Hakeem runs his conference,” McCarthy said of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “He’s going to have a conference, and everybody’s going to talk about it, and I’m not going to put Hakeem in any position, and I respect whatever decision anybody makes.”

This is the best summary I could come up with:

House Democrats on Tuesday said they do not plan to save Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when a vote on ousting him from the top spot hits the floor later in the day.

Emerging from a more than two-hour meeting in the Capitol, House Democrats said they will vote to oust McCarthy from the Speakership.

“We are following our leader and we are not saving Kevin McCarthy,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.

Asked if a decision was made as a caucus not to support McCarthy, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) responded, “yes.”

There will likely be a procedural vote to table the resolution to oust McCarthy or refer it to committee before the chamber weighs in on whether or not to boot the Speaker.

“But in the interest of answering inquiries to my office about whether or not I would support Kevin McCarthy: he’s not the leader I would choose – he doesn’t have the pulse of the people of Maine’s Second District.

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Looking forward to seeing the 25 votes to select the next speaker

There's something about all this that stinks of when fascism in the past has used predictably partisan behavior to seize power.