“This sort of chaos was absolutely predictable by the eight Republicans and 210 Democrats who set us down this path,” says Rep. Nick Lalota (R-N.Y.), who has not supported Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for speaker.
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#JimJordan #Republicans #Speaker
Blame The Other Guys
Democrats DID NOT bring the motion for a vote to the floor. It was one of your own, even when WE THE PEOPLE have seen it with our own eyes, Republicans will tell you, you didn’t see what you saw. 😳
Why are these republicans not coming together for America. If they cant do this they need they need to put a Dem. In front of their Names. When a few people decide they will not support their party that is supposed to be representing the people because they are Stuck on getting a super Speaker that will give in to everything they want, then that person will be a Puppet like we have sitting in the White House. The House is So equaly devided it only takes a few Republicrats or Corrupt politicians to keep the kaos going the Corruption to move On and Everyone can See American Politicians getting Rich after they are Elected. That Càn Only Spell Fraud and Corruption.
Do Republicans always brag about their intent to “never” work with Democrats? So why are they clutching their pearls when getting a dose of their own behavior? Again, when will or has a Republican ever voted for a Democrat to be Speaker of the House? Crickets?
I haven’t seen a Republican yet to be interviewed during their mess where they haven’t brought up democrats. Democrats have nothing to do with THEIR mess! Matt Gaetz caused all of this. Kevin agreed to his reservation and now they are in a mess. It’s totally their fault. Stop blaming others for your own incompetence.
Of course they must blame Democrats for this. Stop it. The blame is completely on the Republican Party.
Jim Jordan quotes from the Bible and has the nerve to worship trump and preach that the election was lost and condones all the laws the man breaks! We are suppose to trust him…right!!!
I just wish the interviewers would ask “have you ever voted for nancy pelosi for speaker?” when they do the democrats fault talking point.
Can someone tell the republicans the government need funding. Dumber than a bag of rocks.
This might be difficult to understand, but the path forward would be to choose someone else.
Have you ever seen so much stupid?
For a member of the Republican party to suggest that any member of the house should reward Jordan or any member of the “Green Bay Sweep” subversion team, known conspirators, who sought pardons,
after people died. Selective amnesia of select GOP or heresy? Aiding and abetting after the fact is still a thing.
These preventable deaths are a result of the extensive facilitations, of subversion/sedition/insurrection against and with intent against the basic 14th amendment that was by design, by necessity to prevent those who conspired against the government to hold a trusted seat in which to continue to abuse powers of office to abuse privileges, dismantle, disrupt, obstruct, threaten or intimidate citizens, including other legislators to retain or regain powers given trusted seats in the peoples government. My opinion
you can’t control your own members but you want to blame the other side. It was your members who kicked out Kevin and your and your own members who can’t decide to vote in a speaker. It has nothing to do with democrats.
Republicans are asking for God to be their speaker. Listen to their demands….very sad….selfish…..corruption to the highest….
He lost my attention when he intimated that Democrats were also somehow responsible for their mess.
They’re are exponentially uncountable numbers of Republican constituents that have no respect for what all you traitors have done to our economy and the J6er protesters.Nobody gives a hoot whether you uni-party comrades play well together. Get some integrity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SALT? That’s welfare for rich people. This guy is not a Republican.
Lalota tries to lay blame on Dems while mentioning ‘toxicity.’ Nick Lalota, the toxicity is in your colon, and it’s breached the blood – brain barrier and putrified your mind.
Really truly unbelievably Jeffries has been doing everything you say you need in a Speaker
Democrats are not responsible for cleaning up your mess, and your messy speaker should, of shut his mouth
Then get a candidate whose worth his salt!!
Chip roy
Yeah was not worry about cutting spending when Trump was in office
Hopefully Mr. Kevin McCathy will return as Speaker of the House of Representatives, his face looks more dignified and straightforward than the others. Trump’s juniors are so crazy, it seems like those congressmen can also see this.
What does one’s face have to do with policy and legislative ability or integrity for that matter? God help us if this is how you vote!
Please correct him about Democrats
GOP is the problem in America
Why should the Democrats bail out the self inflicting wounds of a disfunctional Republican House Majority ?
Why would Democrats vote for McCarthy???? It has NOTHING to do with the Dems – Repugs got themselves into this hole!!!!
Stop blaming the Dems. Take responsibility for your own action!!!
What in the world would Republicans do, if they didn’t have Democrats to blame?! They are truly the, accept no responsibility party, aka, the sniveling snowflake, deflection party!
Fair enough.. he can cry like the others like it’s the dems fault .. but for the most part if he keeps with his voters about the ACTUAL issues they want dealt with. They do need to stop acting like the dems are their mommy tho
BS, do not blame the Dems for the corrupt disruptive inept GOP
The Democrats has nothing to do with you not having s speaker😂!!!
Except NO ONE asked the Democrats to help
I think it was a GOP fault for letting one person be able to end the speakership!! they were short sighted , and the speaker let them do it!
Love republicans taking no blame for their ineptitudes.
Push back? These idiots are in the pocket of rich Republicans.
Stand up and take responsibility GOP did this to themselves 🎯
The path forward is that we know who this guy is now and so it will be priority to direct funds to primary him and the other 25 RINOs who exposed themselves.
How DARE YOU continue to blame Democrats over McCarthy getting expelled as speaker!!! Shame on the reporter for not calling him out! The GOP is at each other’s throats thanks to MAGA extremism.
Since when do Democrats have to save the Republicans.
Rep Lotoya would you vote for a democratic speaker
What? Obviously this guy hasn’t taken his meds today. This was started by slug impersonator Matt Gaetz, gleefully followed by human being impersonator Gym Jordan and 6 other MAGA cult members. THEY are the ones who caused this. Republicans doing what Republicans do best, NEVER taking the blame for their mistakes and taking the public for fools.
WHY do republicans blame Democrats for their incompetence and ignorance?
Liz Cheney can come in and clean out this mess.
McCarthy reneged on May budget deal, DEMS made him pay
Anothe gop rep who takes no blame!
This guy blames the Democrats!?!!! The Republicans themselves did this mess.
Blame the Democrats when they lied and broke promises. The GOP cant admit when they are wrong.
Let’s get this right, Republicans blame Democrats along with 8 Maga to Outs Macathy, but it was 217 Republicans that vote for Macathy with zero democrats voting for him, the Maga Republicans vote him out not democrats please correct the message. No Republicans vote to elect democratic speaker ship why are they blaming democrats for their own mess
It is not dems responsibility to fix Republican crazy!
There are a bunch of whining, childish brats in DC–and only a small # know how to respect others. Even fewer know how to do their job! Nick Lalota is one of those!
hopefully republicans will choose a normal, moderate speaker this time… and stop blaming democrats… it’s tacky…
With such a narrow margin. What did everyone expect??? With roughly the MAGA 8, nothing will get done.
Jordan never sponsored a bill or authored a bill. Gymmy just blows everything up.
The blaming Democrats lie, is getting old. RapepubliKKKans didn’t vote for Pelosi once, they kept blaming Democrats whi helped McCarthy pass his bill, they push for sn impeachment sham yet they think Democrats are supposed to bail them so they can keep stab them in the back? Pathetic and laughable🤡
The host was terrible. No push backs against the pathetic attempt at blaming Democrats and lack of accountability from the far-right.
Also, the majority always elect their own speaker. It’s never been the job of the minority party to help the majority with electing a speaker.
It just shows how dismantled the Republican Party has become. Don’t blame the Dems for your own shortcomings.
Did any Republican vote for Pelosi? Nope!
Republicans still can’t take accountability for their own people. They will allow Trumpaloons will destroy themselves.
If and only if the Dems helped the pubs elect a speaker. What does the Dems get out of it?? Gotta give something to get something. That’s called negotiation!
Something the great MAGA 8 are not able to do. Therefore, everything stalls out.
Trainwreck Green and Booby Boebert have no idea how government even works.
Don’t they get? Trump would drive over them with the bus. If it means saving himself !!!
Let’s all watch and see. When all Trump
allies turn on him. He will blame everyone else.
The younger generation is witnessing history in the making first hand.
If it were reversed, would Rep. Lalota vote to keep Pelosi in power? He knows Reps vote for Reps and Dems vote for Dems. The 2 have never crossed lines to vote for the other party’s speaker.
I blame Matt gaetz and Jim Jordan for pitching a fit and then pouting and then pitching another fit and then fighting and then bullying everybody without a single plan to go forward to get back to work and this is obstruction of justice obstruction of Congress and they’re just playing / they need to be told by the Republican elders that this is for k e e p s ! It’s like the people that tackle rebuilding and engine tearing down the whole car and have no idea how to put it back
Together!
They have nerve to try and place blame on democrats for their mess. It’s unbelievable.
Mr. GOP congressman, do you realize that there is only one person available that will ensure the criteria that you just mentioned? What I can’t understand is why some intelligent people will knowingly vote against their best interests. Here is a hint for you—try Hakeem Jeffries. Sure, you will get reprimanded, but you have to put the wellbeing of voters in your district first. How hard can it be?
“Waaah, wahhhh Where’s my mommy? We got exposed for being completely useless “
its simple 5 repubs vote for jeffries and that is it – problem solved!! he literally needs FEWER repub votes the jordan!!
oh lord mr both sides of the isle and blaming dems for not voting republican!!!!! he is not FIT TO SERVE
if this guy is so concerned he can vote dem… then they are only 4 votes short for jeffries!!!! but no! unthinkable! lol what a hypocrite
It’s hard to believe that out of 420 members they can’t find one good person to be a speaker. That says alot.
This is not the Democrats fault buddy !!!!!!!!
Your own party won’t vote for these clowns and you Democrats too ???????????
What do you do buddy ????
*want
😅😅😅😂
Sooo? This republiCLOWN speaker mess is STILL Democrats fault?
Rep. Lalota obviously doesn’t realize how much the backwoods gqp HATE anything New York. Or maybe he does and won’t voice it. He and his fellow NY reps would do well to avoid any semblance of support for these ignorant, racist, belligerent rabble rousers. Lie down with dogs…
Well shame on you Mr. Lalota! You should have voted for Jordan because he’s more likely to stop the hemorrhage of money being cast to the wind. I’m darned sick of seeing tax money–the *citizen’s tax money*, not the non-existent money from the government money tree, being sent to corrupt Ukraine and now *GAZA*!!! That’s a criminal act! Get your priorities right and vote for Jordan!
Come on reporter no rebuttal now the Republicans are trying to blame the democrats, what a shame of the US CONGRESS
The reporter had no push back on this congressman trying to blame the democrats for the Republicans problems
NOT JEFFRIES
Shut down the government!!!! Stop paying these criminals who are selling us out to Iran, Russia, and China
Democrats sent those threats
The first Repugs that give the best speech will win the Speakership. This is how the Republicans operate.
It has NOTHING to do with the Democrats. The Repubs are in the majority, its their responsibility from the get go to use that majority to vote for a speaker that will push for their collective agenda. If you want more support, then you need to apply for it and support a larger agenda. Which McCarthy and the GOP don’t want to do. So don’t expect or blame the Dems when you aren’t willing to compromise. Also, don’t blame the Dems, when internal support for the speaker drops below the majority. That’s the responsibility of the GOP and the speaker they elected. It’s up to them to maintain that majority.
Republicans create the motion to vacate, vote it in against warnings from Democrats. A Republican enacts the rule and now they blame Democrats for not saving Republicans from themselves? Okay.
It’s not the Democrats job to fix the Republicans mess. They caused it stop blaming the Democrats for your own problem.
Maga’s ultimate goal is to shut down our government!
Why does the GOP keep blaming the Democrats for their own failure to pick a speaker of the House
See we have good Republicans like this good congress
😂🎉😅
At least the people know you not going to get nothing done again when a party can’t agree to a speaker.
The psychotic Trump destroyed the Republican Party and was able to create a cult with its leaders like no good, pathetic Jordan, McCarthy, DeSantis, Georgi-na Santos and others. At least he exposed the worthless morons and doggies in the party!
IT’S NOT THE DEMOCRATS’ RESPONSIBILITY TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! GOP was voted in the majority of Congress. It is THEIR duty to elect a speaker amongst themselves! GOP would have NEVER in a million years voted for Nancy Pelosi or any other Democrat for speaker, so it’s hugely hypocritical and disingenuous for them to blame the Dems for their OWN MESS!
I’m so sick of these Republicans lying
When have republicans ever voted for democrats and why didn’t the republican approach the democrats about supporting them or do they expect the Dems to do their job for them? I actually heard McCarthy one of the most odious and untrustworthy politicians I have known telling the Dems he didn’t want their help so what are you guys talking about?
Another liar. A dumplican wont admit that the chaos is down to the dumplicans Not the democrats. Unfit
Lalota blaming the democrats for the Fascist republican’s mess…. PROJECTION, PROJECTION, PROJECTION!!! LIES, LIES, LIES that is all they know how to do
Media needs to keep stating that Republicans did this not Democrats. And call out their hypocrisy. They wanted Democrats to vote for Republican McCarthy but also say constantly that no Republican better vote with Democrats. In the same situation there’s absolutely no way that any Republican qould have voted for Democrat Speaker. They alzo wouldn’t accept any blame for the situation. However as usual the Dems should have done what Republicans never would have and no matter what its somehow the Democrats fault.
It is such a dumb speaking point to keep blaming the democrats for the speaker crap, why don’t 5 republicans vote for Hakeem Jeffries then or why didn’t McCathy agree to work with them instead of saying that he will never work with democrats?
We had one, but both parties stabbed him in the back behind closed doors I don’t trust either party
They need circus music playing when they do the next vote.