The resolution to empower McHenry, appointed as speaker pro tempore after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Oct. 3, may also not have the votes, according to this source.

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      11 months ago

      Considering his first action as acting speaker was to pettily throw democratic reps out of their offices in defiance of precedent that even McCarthy followed, I hope his pseudo-term is as frustrating as possible.

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          lol I thought he was a dork before but this has made me think even less of him, didn’t think that was possible!

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        I understand this stance emotionally, but there’s a ton of extremely important work Congress needs to get done immediately. It can’t progress with a standard interim speaker.

        This is bigger than “Haha, the people I don’t like are going to look bad”. They have a fucking job to do and a limited amount of time to do it. If it doesn’t get done, innocent people will suffer.

        Unless you’re offering to somehow pay the salaries and contracts of the ~6 million civilians who will lose pay with a government shutdown, to say nothing of the humanitarian efforts worldwide that run off the federal budget.

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          I still want them to get stuff done, I just want him to have a bad time herding his clown show of a caucus. I agree ton of crucial stuff is at stake both domestically and abroad.

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      My comment was more meant to be sarcastic without directly calling for his death. That said, if he did happen to get bitten by a rabid fox again and he happened to not get treated for it in time, I would not really be mourning the loss.