so she wants to… defund the police
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I assume this will work about as well as “NO MERCY.”
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Told NRCC’s theme this year is to bring the tiger.
If it sounds familiar… it’s from the bad lip reading video during speakership battle re. the line “I brought the tiger”
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lmao
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men don’t go full devdas after losing a bad bitch like they used to. chee
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Mr. McCarthy’s agenda, Ms. Greene said, “if he sticks to it, will easily vindicate me and prove I moved the conference to the right during my first two years when I served in the minority with no committees.”
nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/
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Months after getting caught spreading JR Majewski's lies about serving in Afghanistan, the is caught yet again, this time spreading George Santos' lies about his mother being in the South Tower on 9/11.
There's no level Republicans won't stoop to to deceive voters.
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Raising costs on seniors… sounds like a winning message!
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“Republicans in Congress, nearly all of whom voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, have already introduced legislation to repeal the measures intended to lower drug prices”
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This is what the Republican Party is. If you’re brown or Black or anyone who looks different, this is the bullshit you’re subjected to.
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Yikes, even his own local party is done with him.
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"Nassau County Republican leaders will call on Rep. George Santos to resign Wednesday for fabricating his biography to win his congressional seat ..."
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“increase transparency” LOL
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Rules that:
→ Empower members to debate
→ Increase transparency
→ Reopen Congress to We the People
Are replacing rules that:
→ Silenced representative's voices
→ Kept deal-making hidden behind closed doors
→ Allowed for unconstitutional proxy voting
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Republicans side with tax cheats and support increasing the deficit.
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First CBO score of the new Congress is here.
Says that the GOP IRS funding bill would reduce spending by $71.5B and reduce revenue by $185.8B.
Net deficit increase of $114B.
cbo.gov/system/files/2
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Note that these measures often necessitate deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which is *incredibly* unpopular.
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NEW: A key part of this agreement is for House GOP to present a BALANCED budget over 10 years - using the 2022 baseline, per multiple sources
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. was at the Capitol on Jan 6. He is a danger to democracy - the very thing he is about to swear an oath to protect.
He "told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he does not regret supporting former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election." 1/3
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'That is a regret': Van Orden returns to Capitol two years after his Jan. 6 appearance, says he disavows political violence jsonline.com/story/news/pol — via @lawrencegandrea
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Congratulations to @GOPLeader for making history! (again)
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This will now be the longest speaker election since the Civil War, surpassing 1923's 9 ballots.
And in a few ballots, it'll be the 5th-longest on record.
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The Chaos Caucus
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This whole exercise isn't just humiliating for Kevin McCarthy, but also the entire Republican party.
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🚨 the oppo factory is hiring a *senior researcher*🚨 if you already have oppo experience and want to really stick it to state level republicans, come on down!!! americanbridgepac.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0x1xt/
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Here's a limerick:
Kevin wants so bad to be Speaker,
but his caucus keeps getting weaker.
His vote count is dropping,
and he swears "no stopping!"
His chances are bleaker and bleaker.
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CHIP ROY stands to nominate BYRON DONALDS for speaker
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couldn't have happened to a better guy
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McCarthy on track to lose the third ballot for House Speaker twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/…
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the poor House clerk
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Well, that's it. McCarthy failed to move a single vote in the second round of balloting
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I wonder if he had time to harass some librarians along the way
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Derrick Van Orden arrives at the Capitol for the first day of the new Congress on a Harley Davidson.
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👀👀👀
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A source familiar tells me the whip count against McCarthy is around 18, with nine currently in the hard no category. All still fluid ahead of tomorrow’s vote.
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NEW: Just caught up w @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy in the Capitol.
He said he's feeling "actually really good" as he entered the speaker of the House suite on the second floor of the Capitol.
I asked him if he'd set motion to vacate at one, and he smiled and walked in the office
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ABOUT REP-ELECT GEORGE SANTOS and the GOP:
A GOP source involved tells me that the NRCC and Kevin McCarthy knew Santos' record was full of falsehoods and issues.
At the same time, NRCC spokesman @M_McAdams told me on the record, emphatically "That is absolutely untrue."
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Full-Time Liar Lies Again After Insisting His Record of Lies & Deception Don't Matter. is a mess.
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By the way, Open Secrets has Santos contributing $705,000 to his 2022 campaign. If it wasn't his money, we are talking about major, major campaign law violations opensecrets.org/races/candidat
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Key point of Santos story: "He did not address how his wealth has skyrocketed in the past several years to enable him to lend hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign." Where did he get $705,000? washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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Republicans are so power hungry that they propped up this serial fabulist and spent on his behalf
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apparently his lies were a running joke among senior GOP House members! twitter.com/JulianCastro/s…
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Interesting that all the people objecting to this thread are Comms people or outside consultants. No one who actually does research.
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