House Speaker Ideas?

https://twitter.com/ashishkjha46/status/1610648605383168000A new subvariant to COVID has emerged. 

Vaccines are not effective.

The sub variant went from 

Over the holidays, you may have heard about Omicron XBB.1.5

It went from 4% of sequences to 40% in just a few weeks

That’s a stunning increase

So what does it mean? Will it cause a wave of serious illness and death?

Here's what we know 

That it affects people regardless of vaccine. 

Diminished effective response the sub variant is too new to have a study...( Words for oh shit these tests must be verified....)

Source director fda csc nnaids s division tweet.

 https://twitter.com/ashishkjha46/status/1610648605383168000

I'm super comfortable.  You never see me hear flying off the handle and yelling in giant fonts.  

Mirror  

Think maybe you could direct that "giant font" statement to the two originators of Quote/Bold/36pt Font, repeat-repeat-repeat?

We all know whose two are. 

Or maybe tell Nature to stay on topic. 

0-10 hot streak!

Yeah, have to admit it is getting interesting now. Looks like McCarthy has hit a brick wall with the 20.

Not like Congress would do anything earth shattering in a week. 

Buckeyes ML vs Purdue tonight. 

C-SPAN is doing a fantastic job zeroing in on the various groups making deals & watching the real movers/shakers in DC.

How a scumbag like Gaetz can wield so much power is unfathomable to me.

McCarthy has sold the farm to those strong armed fucktards who took advantage of his spineless soul.

The Republicans finally found an election they can re-do over and over and yet they still can’t win.

Choke turnover. 

@Midnight1

@UNIMAN

 You're from Michigan & you bet on Ohio State????

Blasphemy!!!!! 

I like Sparty Saturday against the Wolverines.

What's the Over/Under at for the number of times it takes?   15.5?  Is that low enough?   

 Why not nominate Rep-elect Santos? He certainly fits the profile of the Freedom Caucus arm of the GOP these days - a big fraud who shouldn't be in Congress who is in the news for all the wrong reasons. He could easily assume the responsibility,He was already speaker of the house for six years, back before he was the Prince of Wales

Matt Gaetz threatens to resign if a moderate Republican is chosen.   He thinks that is a threat?

Too close to call at 15.5

As expected McCarthy team has managed to either bribe or threaten a few republican colleagues over night, presumably why they insisted on an pushing the vote off another day. 

Of course McCarthy will ultimately get the votes, we all knew this from the start.  Just amazing to realize how little power and influence he will have going forward as he will have to bend to the whims of the farthest right.

I can only imagine how a loyal McCarthyite from day 1 and now that he will gave the plum assignments to the FC members that switched to him that they were in line to receive! Keep in mind on every vote in the house of The People there will 3 or 4 ...maybe more ? who will have the power that Joe Manchin wheeled in the GOP side of the senate. 

good point !    not quite but almost a lameduck speaker

Oh, nothing but respect for the Buckeyes. It's their fans that can be obnoxious at times with "SCUM" and "TTUP", no M's,  silly shit. They had Purdue with a one point lead and the ball with 28 seconds. Blew it.

Like Izzo too, comical guy. Always tough with the defense.

What Gaetz really said was he was so sure democrats wouldn't help McCarty get elected that he would resign if they did, that's how sure I am he said. Not a threat and pretty sure he wouldn't resign. But hey, have fun with it.

Well he is with four votes...

And finally received more than Jefferies....

@nature1970

 He's hoping his detractors will vote "present" diminishing the threshold he needs to meet.

All these fucktards know how to circumvent & use the rules to their advantage.

It's one of the many reasons we can't trust these cretins in Congress.

Imagine voting no for a guy 11 times, then suddenly deciding maybe he is qualified.

The R’s who flipped have zero credibility.

I've been saying it for months....the GOP cupboard is absolutely bare.

So, if the Republicans can actually select a Speaker tonight, their first order of business will be to stab each other in the back.

@Midnight1

 They’d have to abolish the ethics committee first.

Yessir -- makes you wonder what they 'got' to 'flip' their vote. 

No doubt about it -- I think that already started.  That may be how they got some to 'flip'. 

It will be very surprising to see any leadership and cohesion from this group going forward.