The announcement immediately rocketed McCarthy to the top of the private sector’s target list of former members of Congress who would be powerful additions to a company payroll. McCarthy was a prolific fundraiser as Republican leader and later speaker, where he built a deep network of CEOs and major donors.
Straight to lobbying to make things worse.
This is actually a different take than I’m used to though. The power they’re saying he has comes not from his connections to the STATE, but connections to the oligarchy. Is America finally turning the corner in how it perceives itself?
It’s been corporate feudalism justified by a priesthood of politicians and lawyers for quite some time, just like Europe was once feudalism justified by the priesthood of the church.
The Power Elite is a famous book on this subject. Focuses purely on American families and their aristocratic hold on government and industry.
It was published in 1956 as a criticism of the status quo. Things have only gotten worse since.
Aww - poor little baby didn’t get to play Speaker, so now he’s taking his ball and going home. Sad.
I think that if McCarthy really does follow through on rage quitting, it might actually be the first time in his life he’s kept a promise.
I’m willing to bet he got offered stupid money to be a lobbyist and this is probably a net win for him.
Yeah, probably. It’s not like he ever gave a shit about his constituents, after all.
McCarthy was one of the key players in the decline and fall of America. When he went to Maralago he fucked us all more than everything else he’s done combined.
But Convicted Rapist Treason Trump was depressed from losing the election and failing to disenfranchise millions of Americans…
Poor Trump wasn’t eating
What a little bitch. This fuck sabatoged his own position, which then lead the house into chaos because fucktards like mtg and the pedophile had his balls in their vise, gets booted from his position for doing the one OK thing he’s ever done in his life and then tucks tail and runs cause he knows he’s an empty vessel. Fucking garbage.
McCarthy also gave a vague hint about his future plans: “I look forward to helping entrepreneurs and risk-takers reach their full potential.”
“The challenges we face are more likely to be solved by innovation than legislation,” he wrote.
Technocratic venture capital?
Is anyone know the odds that Bakersfield won’t elect another spineless cunt to represent them?
McCarthy won in 2022 with 67.2% of the vote while his Democrat opponent got 32.8%. So almost assuredly another Republican.
And for the ones following this from far away… How much
corruption… I meanelection manipulation… no… “completely innocent district restructuring” happened before to make that possible?California has independent redistricting (and has been run by democrats for decades), so you can’t blame gerrymandering for this one. It’s just a red part of the state.
All of it.
The majority margin is down to 2.
That’s not quite the way it works.
Before Santos was expelled, the count was 222 R to 213 D. The “four-vote majority” really meant that Republicans could afford to lose no more than 4 votes on a measure: if five Republicans vote against it, the measure would fail by 1 vote, 217-218, assuming all members voted.
With Santos gone, the math is 221 to 213, as long as the seat remains vacant. The margin shrunk to 3, because a majority is needed to pass anything, and losing 4 ® votes now ties the vote at 217. When McCarthy leaves, with 2 vacant seats, it will be 220 to 213, but the margin remains 3, because losing 3 votes will still result in passage at 217-216.
Effectively, each vacant seat is like half a vote is lost. But then it’s more important to see how that seat is filled. I imagine McCarthy’s seat will remain Republican, but Santos ‘s seat on Long Island seems likely to flip, and that would go further to narrow the Republicans’ majority.
Republicans could afford to lose no more than 4 votes on a measure
Yes, and after he leaves only 2
Math is hard, isn’t it?
I know razor thin when I see it. With Santos and McCarthy gone and Ken Buck a clear no, how’s that impeachment vote coming along Mr, Johnson?
Two bits says Newsom will take time figuring out a special election date.
We all know California is a bastion of fiscal responsibility, why schedule a special election at all (and all the cost of keeping polls open) when they will be a perfectly cromulent General Election in November?
Thank you for using cromulent. Words die if they aren’t used.
Your insightful commentary embiggens everyone who reads it!
Holy shit, Matt Gaetz was right
Hitler was right about animal rights. He still should have hung by the neck.
