On Wednesday, for the second time in roughly 24 hours, Jim Jordan lost a vote to become Speaker of the House. He failed to win the gavel by dint of 22 Republicans, an even more embarrassing result than the day prior, when 20 of his colleagues voted for other candidates.
Jordan’s back-to-back losses follow more than two weeks of what could charitably be called a shitshow dumpster fire of biblical proportions that, as Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast put it, “might be entertaining if the American people weren’t reliant on these people to fund the federal government in a little more than a month.” Now, with no actual solution in sight, Republicans have coalesced around a new plan: Blame it all on the Democrats.
On Wednesday, in a logic-defying interview, Representative Austin Scott tried to claim to CNN’s Brianna Keilar that it was Democrats—not Republicans—who were responsible for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster earlier this month, despite the fact that (1) it was literally engineered by Representative Matt Gaetz and (2) Republicans are the majority party in the House.
“Ninety-six percent of the votes came from Democrats,” Scott said. “So, Brianna, I mean, just factually speaking, there were only eight Republicans and there were 208 Democrats [who voted to oust McCarthy].” To this, Keilar responded, “But, sir, who’s in the majority?” Incredibly, Scott’s answer was, “Well, the Democrats were the majority of that vote.”
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