Rep. Jim Jordan lost another vote for Speaker of the House, even with support from former speaker Kevin McCarthy, and is now dropped as the GOP's nominee. According to reports, this comes after the Republican holdouts against Jordan told him that he will NEVER be speaker. Glenn rips into congressional Republicans for wasting its time with petty third-grade fights while Americans suffer from inflation: "You are SO misguided!"
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STU: It seems that Jim Jordan will not be elected as Speaker of the House today.
GLENN: No. Why do you say that?
Because it was very hopeful, very hopeful yesterday.
I had to fly in. I gave a speech yesterday. I was flying in. I land.
My text message was going crazy. Looks like one more time, the Republicans. But this time, McCarthy is serious.
He will give a speech. And tell everybody, you have to vote for Jim Jordan.
STU: Yeah. And maybe that -- yeah. Sure. Maybe that will work.
I just it's highly unlikely.
But look, you hold out hope for a good --
GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait.
We've already had a quorum call. Could we -- Sara, do we have the horn music?
Because I think Stu explaining this serious, serious process.
Yeah. With that horn. Is going to make it even better. Go ahead.
STU: So we are told yesterday, that Jim Jordan, didn't want to have a vote on Patrick McHenry.
And then we heard the exact opposite.
And then we heard that Jim Jordan was going to go for a third vote. And then we were told he was not going to do that.
And he -- and now we're back, and Jim Jordan, is now going to go for a third vote.
He held a press conference this morning. Which didn't seem to really accomplish anything specific.
It was just maybe an outlying of what was going on.
He is -- had a behind-the-scenes meeting.
Can I read you a description, about how optimistic you should be about this vote.
GLENN: Oh, please do. Please do.
STU: This is a reporter. He said, a source describes the Jordan meetings, the holdouts.
These are the holdout votes that don't want to vote for him as House speaker. They described it like this.
A direct precise meeting, in which Jordan was told, he will never be speaker.
This group doesn't want anything. They want Jordan to understand, that he will not be speaker.
So this is going pretty well.
I think we're -- this is --
GLENN: Wait. We're now wasting our time with this.
STU: Don't try to bribe us with anything.
You will just never get this job. That's basically what they're telling us.
GLENN: Okay. That's good.
STU: Of course, I think he would do very well as speaker.
Again, it's not me you have to please. It's not Glenn you have -- it's not anybody who cares about conservative values at all.
It's a bunch of people who don't like Jim Jordan, that you have to please.
And it's hard to do that, with a name like Jim Jordan.
And I think that's where you'll wind up here over the next few days.
GLENN: Yeah. Now, I saw this on the Daily Caller today.
Gaetz has forced a motion to vacate the chair vote in early October.
That successfully removed former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy from office. Has continued to face criticism for many House Republicans for going against the status quo.
Yeah, that's the last thing we're doing, is sending somebody into Washington, that would go against the status quo. You know what I mean?
Hey, can we -- we have a quorum call coming up. They're exciting.
Let's just wrap around that. And make sure everything is there. And let's not upset the applecart.
Because this applecart. It's doing gangbusters. We're selling apples like nobody's business.
Just status quo, gang.
Many republicans are -- who are voting for Jordan, and also voted to remove McCarthy as speaker, say they believe, it could be seen as a win.
If -- win for Gaetz. If someone said, Jordan was elected.
STU: This is real.
What you're talking about is totally what's going on.
They're pissed off at Gaetz for doing this in the first place. And they're not going to give him anything he wants.
It is petty. It's pathetic.
But that is 100 percent the dynamic at work here, and there's no way to get around it, unless you find someone that Gaetz does not like.
Which is essentially what they will wind up having to do.
GLENN: So here it is: I have been told by a good number of people. That their objection is not personal to Jim.
Their voting in Jordan, is proceed to be rewarding Matt Gaetz and the rest of the eight.
Oh. So, you know, when Stu says petty. It might not be -- it might not be -- an accurate description. I think it might be more than just petty. Childish, as well.
STU: Yeah. Childish. Petty.
And it is important to note, that a lot of this is not directly about Jim Jordan. There are definitely members who don't like Jordan specifically.
But it's more about this idea.
That they -- if you think about it from our perspective, Glenn.
We would say, don't toss your speaker. Unless you have a plan to improve the situation.
And at least have a plan to avoid catastrophic circumstances. Right?
That would be the second thing we've talked about for a while.
For us.
The upside of this would be if someone like Jordan did become speaker. Somebody who would improve the situation over McCarthy.
That's the exact thing, that the holdouts want to prevent.
If people like us, think this is better, then it will all be seen as worth it. And we will celebrate, as if this was a good thing.
They can't have that. This is why this is so hard.
They can't let that occur.
GLENN: I know. This is -- this is -- we're in the death throws of the Republicans, that, you know, most Americans despise.
And, you know, they think that -- they are so detached from reality.
They think that -- you know, in -- in purple states, and purple districts, that people would rather have a Democrat, than somebody who is going to be preaching common sense.
Look, we have to open up the oil fields again.
We have to build refineries.
We are not going to be able to survive.
We -- if you want to be the sugar daddy for the rest of the world, okay.
But you're going to have to find that money someplace. Because people can't afford their house.
They can't afford their interest.
How many people have had their insurance go through the roof lately?
How many?
Everything is going -- is going through the roof.
I went in to buy a new suit the other day. I don't know when I bought a new suit in how long.
Because I'm constantly gaining weight.
Because I'm slipping suits, because I can't even put my arms in. Because it will rip the sleeves off.
And I'm one of those guys.
You know, I will buy a suit. I will buy it in -- I will drop this weight.
This time I went in. And I'm like, can I get one three sizes too big, please?
But I went in, and I buy a certain size of suit. I buy it forever.
You know, believe it or not. It fits me.
And, you know, it's -- it's a nice suit.
I bought a jacket. I thought it was a suit.
I bought a jacket. First of all, haven't bought a new suit, in I don't even know. Five years. Six years.
The jacket was twice the price of what I would have paid for a suit. Five years ago.
And I looked at him, and I -- he rang it up. And I'm like, Good Lord.
What -- no. I think you've rung that up wrong.
And he said, no.
And I said, come on, man. I know what the suit -- what are you talking about?
And he's like, this is the price.
And I said, wow!
Next time, could I get a cocktail before you stick your fingers in my eyes, and just press them all the way to the back of my skull!
Everything is going through the roof!
And do you really think that the average person, who is not worried about buying a new suit. Who is worried about putting food on the table.
And paying their rent.
And being able to have enough at the end of the month.
Do you really think that your elitist snobbery of, hey. We don't want to upset the applecart. We just want to keep the status quo.
Do you really think that they will like that?
Do you really think that when they're roped into two wars. Or let's just call it World War III.
And things are really bad. And they're paying $10 a gallon for gasoline, and then they start taking their houses.
I don't know. Do you think that will work out well for you, Republicans?
You are so misguided.
So misguided.
They are just out of touch. And the -- the Republicans, that -- like Jim Jordan, I mean, they're going to be called extremists. But I'm sorry. If it's an extremist position.
If you want to call me an extremist for saying gender matters, that men and women are men.
And women are women. You can call yourself whatever you want. But scientifically speaking, and this is important, that can never change.
We don't play footsy with people who are conducting terrorist activities.
We shouldn't send pallets of cash, over to Hamas, or to Iran.
I don't want to fight the war for Israel.
They're big boys. They have prepared for this, since, oh, I don't know.
1948.
They can fight their own battles. We'll stand and say, hey. They have a right to exist. And they have a right to defend themselves.
They start committing atrocities, and they lose our support.
But I'm not fighting a war for them.
And I'm not sending any more money. And I'm not sending any more children. Into death for -- for one of these wars, where we don't even know -- again, I say to Matt Gaetz.
Have a plan. What's the plan? In Ukraine?
What is it? What is it?
I need a goal.
I need a -- you know, it's like going out into a football game. Where there is no end zone.
There's just -- it's just numbers on the field.
And you can run, you can run right, left. Hell, you can -- you can run into the stands.
But you have to score.
But there is no end zone.
And so we don't really know, how to score.
How to even tell when you've made a touch down, or when the game is over.
No. Not going to do it anymore. Not going to do it.
You can't keep printing money, and raising interest rates. It's insane.
