Turning tide traumatizes tyrant

 

UPDATE 01:01 pm:

Question for Byron Donalds

Narrator:  He absolutely would.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Neeeeext

On Tuesday, 20 Republicans voted against [Jordan], putting him far below the threshold he needed to be speaker. Twenty-two Republicans voted against him in a second vote on Wednesday. Twenty-five Republicans opposed him in a third vote, putting him even further from the speakership.

[...]

After the third failed vote, Republicans took a vote by secret ballot on whether Jordan should remain the nominee. He lost that vote handily, losing his status as the Republican nominee for speaker.

The speaker runs the business of the House and controls the floor schedule and which bills come to the floor. Without one, the House cannot operate.

[...]

Democrats have all voted for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, in each of the speakership elections. Jeffries has said there have been “informal talks” with Republicans, but Democrats have been quiet about any negotiations. A pre-condition for any Democratic support for a speaker appears to be that they would allow any bipartisan bills come up for a vote.

  Guardian

As long as the House remains without a speaker, the chamber cannot advance any legislation, leaving members unable to pass critical bills like a stopgap government funding measure or an aid package for Israel and Ukraine. Government funding is set to run out in less than a month, raising the threat of a federal shutdown next month.

[...]

The conference is expected to return on Monday evening to hear from candidates for the speakership, with voting set for Tuesday. By that time, the House will have been without a speaker for three weeks.

  Guardian

UPDATE 08:06 am:

Donalds got votes in Kevin McCarthy's nomination fiasco.  This is what I know about Donalds:

Look 'em up if you want.  I'll wait until I see one of them actually make it to a vote.

UPDATE 09:00 am:

Even if Emmer were to wind up finding the 217 votes it would take to win on the House floor and become speaker, the source said, "He can expect a tumultuous speakership. That’s the last thing the conference needs right now."

The divide between Trump and Emmer runs deep.

Emmer voted to certify the 2020 election results, bucking pressure from the former president and his allies to overturn Joe Biden's victory. Emmer, who ran the campaign arm of House Republicans in the 2022 cycle, reportedly implored candidates not not "be distracted" by Trump and, instead, stick to focusing on policies that matter to voters.

[...]

[However,] Emmer [...] spoke glowingly of Trump during the midterms. He said Trump was a "fantastic ally" during the elections.

  The Messenger

UPDATE 10/22/2023:

I think there are 9.

UPDATE 10/23/2023:

More "misplaced" classfiied documents

I've been hearing having classified documents isn't uncommon.

A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

[...]

Pence asked his lawyer with experience handling classified material to conduct the search of his home out of an abundance of caution.

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The discovery comes after Pence has repeatedly said he did not have any classified documents in his possession.

  CNN

This is actually absurd. The USG classifies way too many documents for no - or stupid (including fear of embarrassment) - reasons. But there's no reason on earth classified documents should end up in private possession. If you don't know how to set up a system, ask a librarian.

The vice president’s residence at the US Naval Observatory in Washington has a secure facility for handling classified material along with other security, and it would be common for classified documents to be there for the vice president to review.

[...]

Some of the boxes at Pence’s Indiana home were packed up from the vice president’s residence, while some came from the White House in the final days of the Trump administration, which included last-minute things that did not go through the process the rest of Pence’s documents did.

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Pence’s lawyer immediately alerted the National Archives, the sources said. In turn, the Archives informed the Justice Department.

A lawyer for Pence told CNN that the FBI requested to pick up the documents with classified markings that evening, and Pence agreed.

[...]

On Monday, Pence’s legal team drove the boxes back to Washington, DC, and handed them over to the Archives to review the rest of the material for compliance with the Presidential Records Act.

[...]

The classified material was stored in boxes that first went to Pence’s temporary home in Virginia before they were moved to Indiana, according to the sources. The boxes were not in a secure area, but they were taped up and were not believed to have been opened since they were packed, according to Pence’s attorney. Once the classified documents were discovered, the sources said they were placed inside a safe located in the house.

[...]

“The bottom line is I don’t know how this happened, we need to get to the bottom of it,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican. “I don’t believe for a minute that Mike Pence is trying to intentionally compromise national security. But clearly we’ve got a problem here.”

Lindsey has a fine grasp of the obvious.

And maybe go through your papers if you've ever been anywhere near classified docs in your career.  (Actually, that's probably what's happening and why Mike Pence's lawyer found some.)

And, like Biden, Pence condemned the man before him for mishandling classified docs...

You might think Pence, who boasts about his Christian bona fides, would be more conversant with Biblical admonitions against casting stones and picking motes out of eyes.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 04:11 pm:  And Congressman Donalds only got two days to be self-righteous.  

That, and this, are still up on his Twitter account.  Somebody should let him know.

No comment yet on Pence's "violation of the espionage act."

UPDATE 01/25/2023:

Does that mean some people should be fired?

Perhaps they do, but unless someone credible comes foward to claim knowledge of it, I don't see this happening.

UPDATE 01/25/2023:  Still no comments on Donalds' Twitter account about Mike Pence's classified document story.