Kevin McCarthy comes out against bipartisan Jan. 6 commission

[brucejoel99]

Why in the hell did he literally authorize Katko to cut this deal if he was just gonna oppose it in the end?

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1395130470615031809

It's never gonna happen, but god damn, I want this man to be the next Senator from Ohio so badly right now.

[brucejoel99]

~17% of Republicans voting for it means that it's still DOA in the Senate unless & until they go nuclear.

[brucejoel99]

~17% of Republicans voting for it means that it's still DOA in the Senate unless & until they go nuclear.

That is not how it works. Assuming all of the 7 impeachers vote for it, it just needs 3 more votes. I wouldn't say it's likely, but it could very well pass.

Obviously. I might've worded it badly but what I was attempting to point out was merely that if the proportion of House Republican support for the bill were to remain the same among Senate Republicans, then it still wouldn't be clearing 60.

[brucejoel99]

By the way, maybe it's just my hate-crush for her that made me notice this, but I'm surprised Mace wasn't among the 35 voting for the commission. It would have been an easy layup for her to reinforce the "reasonable Republican" image she's tried to cultivate and even fooled me with for a bit, especially when I saw some of her interviews on the day of the insurrection. She's probably relying on the old "there is nothing new to learn and we shouldn't be antagonizing Trump supporters" cop-out. Coward!

Pretty much, yeah:

https://twitter.com/nancymace/status/1395407077389086722https://twitter.com/nancymace/status/1395407079821692931

[brucejoel99]

Edit: And of course, he immediately followed it up by saying that getting rid of the filibuster would "destroy the government."

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1397931809263034372

At least "[he's] not ready" is better than an outright no, given that not being ready implies that he will be ready one day.

[brucejoel99]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1398062757220687875

Six votes presumably means:

1. Vote on Schumer Substitute Amendment, as amended, to China Bill.
2. Cloture on China Bill
3. Passage of China Bill
4. Commission vote
5. Hajjar Nomination to USPS
6. Lander Nomination

The Senate just recessed 'til 9am. So much for all of those votes happening tonight :/