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Superbone wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:07 am

The "honorable" Jim Jordan? I don't think so.

wow... that's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

Jordan unable to win the Speakership today. Will try again tomorrow.

I suspect a few late night phone calls to a few lawmakers overnight.

Womp womp.

An election denier shouldn't be allowed to be speaker.

Congressman’s Wife Receives Anonymous Texts Warning Husband to Vote For Jim Jordan: ‘Will Not Hold Any Political Office Ever Again’
https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/171 ... 86074?s=20
“Why is your husband causing chaos by not supporting Jim Jordan? I thought he was a team player,” read one text, to which Bacon’s wife responded, “Who is this???”

The anonymous sender then warned, “Your husband will not hold any political office ever again. What a disappoint [sic] and failure he is.”

“He has more courage than you. You won’t put your name to your statements,” Bacon’s wife shot back.

According to Beavers, “Jordan’s vocal GOP defectors during today’s failed speaker vote said they felt pressure to back him by allies/district party bosses/conservatives influencers” and “saw it as a coordinated message: Vote for Jordan or else.”


How Hannity, Bannon and others on the right helped fuel GOP speaker chaos
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1io3cz
The widely watched conservative pundit wasn’t only using his televised bully pulpit to pressure the holdouts. Hannity also spent the weekend personally calling several and having one of his producers reach out to others to lobby them on their vote. He also took to social media to encourage his followers to call wavering members and demand they fall into line.

Hannity’s effort to personally whip up votes for Jordan highlights the central role that right-wing media has played in the weeks-long drama engulfing Capitol Hill over who will wield the speaker’s gavel.

At each turn, conservative media figures such as Hannity and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon have injected high-profile disruption into a process that normally plays out quietly behind the scenes in Capitol Hill corridors.

Fox News host Sean Hannity upset several House Republicans this month after he used his producers to aggressively whip them into voting for Jordan.

After it was reported that House Republicans were “growing increasingly irritated” by Hannity’s pressure campaign, Hannity lashed out at “sensitive little snowflakes in Congress” on his show and said, “I offer no apologies for doing my job and seeking answers from those elected public servants.”

Freedom Caucus member and Fox News favorite Byron Donalds admitted that the strong-arm tactics to support Jordan backfired.

(Lest we need more evidence of Hannity’s angle here, the website that bares his own name features a story with the breathless headline: “THE LIST: Here are 20 Members of the House GOP Who Failed to Vote for Jordan —and How to Contact Them!”)

Thank goodness the GOP is focused on what matters.

Mori Chu wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:08 am

Thank goodness the GOP is focused on what matters.

With all that’s happening in the world Sarah is diligently working on banning words. You go girl!

Mitt on the Media
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messag ... e94f15/raw
Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party's standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP.

The Utah senator and one-time GOP presidential nominee unleashed a torrent of pointed criticism aimed squarely at the information universe in which most of his party's members consume their news, characterizing it in a new book as a dangerous propaganda factory detached from reality, poisoning the minds of its inhabitants.

"It's hard to imagine," Romney said in one excerpt of the book that Coppins shared with me, but Tucker Carlson is turning the GOP into "the pro-Russian, pro-authoritarian party."

His stinging analysis of the media consumed by Republicans is particularly noteworthy, given that he once harbored a close relationship with its top figures. But that relationship was shattered when Donald Trump ascended within the Republican Party, ushering in a new era defined by vicious attacks on political opponents, the smearing of the press, embracement of conspiracy theories, and a brazen assault on the truth.

Regardless of his feelings about Hannity, Romney acknowledged that the problem is more deeply rooted, blaming the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Fox News as an institution for some of the ugly rhetoric injected into the public discourse. After seeing the former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs fearmonger about immigrants, Romney wrote an email to a pair of political confidants, describing Fox as a "serious problem."

"Lou is a moron," Romney wrote, according to Coppins. "Fox is an enabler."

GOP ditches Jordan as speaker pick
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... s-00122781


And the next batter up is?

The inmates are running the asylum.

LOL.

Mori Chu wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:38 am

LOL.

Bahahaha…. He’s a chicken shit and could have ended magas GOP hold a long time ago by testifying to the Jan 6.th committee. If he would have done that I think this would all be done with.

There is no Republican Party anymore. All the people who claim to be Republicans now are the true RINO’s.

I honestly thought trump gifted them with the best mascot…. I mean compared to the other political mascots . Then again he’d claim he owned it and want a cut of any use of it.

Are we sure that wasn't him just waiting to get his Covid shot?

Dems and non Maga Cons don’t like him because he was Trumps yes man for four years. Maga Republicans don’t like him because he refused to ignore the Constitution and certified Biden’s win against the wishes of Trump. Who does that leave?

Nobody. He has zero constituency within his own party.