Pelosi's advice for GOP House Negotiations: "I think you would need a doctor or a psychiatrist"

[kpete]

“What level of insanity would you put on somebody who would want to be—a historic loss…it’s really sad. I don’t even understand it. Given any version of it. I think you would need a doctor or a psychiatrist”

Link to tweet

[gab13by13]

1. Too bad the MSM is not fair and balanced

or it would be saying the exact same thing, instead of playing bothsiderisms.

[Martin68]

32. As usual, I need to point out that both the New York Time and the Washington Post are giving them

hell. Relying on TV, cable or online news results in a very distorted version of what journalism is supposed to be.

WaPo: House speaker chaos brings glee and gloom for national security state
- For some officials, the gridlock is a nightmarish preview of budget battles to come. For others, it’s a moment of comedy relief.
- “It’s not just the Democrats laughing,” House Republican Michael Waltz (Fla.) told Fox Business on Wednesday. “It’s the Chinese Communist Party, the Russians, the North Koreans, the Iranians who are pointing to democracy and calling it dysfunctional, saying you better side with us and not this form of government.”

NYT: Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
- As the Republican leader has made concessions to the far right, he has effectively agreed to give them carte blanche to disrupt the workings of the House — and to hold him hostage to their demands.
-The recipe for the chaos already existed: A toxic combination of the Republicans’ slim governing majority, an unyielding hard-right flank that disdains the normal operations of government and a candidate for speaker who has repeatedly bowed to that flank in his quest for power.

[ananda]

2. Indeed, the Republican party is the living example of....

the collapse of our mental health system.

This all started with Ronald Reagan.

[Wicked Blue]

13. Just the fact that these people are allowed to run loose, wreaking havoc

is a disgrace.

[OMGWTF]

28. That people voted for these misanthropes is stunning.

[usaf-vet]

24. I think the word dismantle is a more accurate description. But it did start with Reagan!

[mucifer]

3. It's really serious. They took out the metal detectors to the House. I think those psychos could

use weapons.

[Omnipresent]

5. That sounds like a McCarthy move.

Taking out metal detectors and moving his things into the speaker’s office before he actually gets the job.
What a nervy SOB Kevin is!

[Hekate]

14. MTG and Bobo really resented those things and flouted Pelosi's rules every day. Pretty sure MTG...

…made getting rid of them one of her demands to Kevin.

Really, really dangerous.

[Maraya1969]

23. Right, and at this point do they even have the right to do that? What if a Dem put them back up?

That would maybe start a war but I still think they had no right to take them down. If I worked in Congress I would be nervous about the whole thing.

[mopinko]

4. nancy unchained?

will we see a sharper nancy out of leadership?

[Botany]

6. McCarthy is a shit. "It will be hard not to hit' Pelosi with gavel if he becomes House speaker."

Not only was McCarthy well aware of Trump being "Russian Dirty" in 2016 but he really is a
nasty piece of work. I hope he is suffering.

CNN — (August 2, 2021)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked at a Saturday night event that it “will be hard not to hit” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker’s gavel if Republicans take control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms and he becomes speaker.

“I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it,” McCarthy said in audio posted to Twitter by a Main Street Nashville reporter.

The Republican leader made the comments after he was handed an oversized gavel by members of the Tennessee congressional delegation while appearing at a fundraising event in the state. His remarks are just the latest sign of his deteriorating relationship with the Democratic leader, who was not present at the event.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-nancy-pelosi-gavel/index.html

[Hekate]

16. Knowing Paul Pelosi had just about been killed with a hammer, McCarthy still said that...

McCarthy is indeed a POS

[MagickMuffin]

19. He said it before Paul Pelosi's attack, but it planted seeds of violence

On her and her family. Words have consequences!

[Emile]

7. LOL +1

[Lonestarblue]

8. I read an article at CNN saying that a different Republican nominee would still have to live

with the ridiculous concessions that McCarthy has made to the cabal of insurrectionists, which I believe includes important committee assignments and leadership roles. Is this true? Why would a different nominee have to abide by someone else’s negotiations?

I really do not understand why so many Republicans who might be considered moderates (for example, the 22 elected in districts Biden won) when he is giving away their rights to radicals whose sole purpose in the House is to cause chaos and try to use the legislative process to destroy the government. They need to choose a new nominee and start voting foe that person, making it clear to McCarthy that he never be speaker. He will be blackmailed into concession after concession if he were to become speaker.

[area51]

9. Looks like Kevin is a masochist. n/t

[usonian]

10. Is this not a third-party situation?

People are unaware of how to deal with it.

[Hekate]

17. We do not have a parliamentary system & cannot form a coalition government

[markodochartaigh]

21. Increasingly

the Republicans can't even form a coalition party among themselves. This is what happens when ONE side has moved so far and is not committed to democratic norms of government.

[Hekate]

25. That much is true

[dalton99a]

11. Kevin is going for the record.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

31. This song comes to mind...

[Hekate]

12. Zap!

[Rebl2]

15. I think

after six votes, it’s time to let the other party automatically have their chosen speaker become speaker of the house.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. It's going to take a team of doctors -- the whole Freedom to Sedition Caucus needs help.

[OMGWTF]

29. To quote Dorothy from The Golden Girls "What you need is a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge."

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. That's for sure! Maybe a houseful of kids, too, for incentive.

[question everything]

20. Thank you for copying the comment for the non-twittiers here

[IronLionZion]

22. My advice is for 6 Repubs to vote for Hakeem Jeffries

[Mr. Ected]

26. Too bad we don't have a tiebreaker system in place when the GOP splinters

The Anarchists versus the Anachronistic.

While they bicker about who is the more despicable, America loses half of its legislative function.

Sad to say, the voters who breathed life into this disaster are watching this like a college football game in October, irreverant and undaunted. Makes the grown up in me vomit in my mouth.

[republianmushroom]

27. think a pediatrician would be a better choice Ms. Nancy IMO