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“Our willingness to self-mutilate on these things really impairs our ability to get the job done. Let’s do the math here, Charlie. We have a four vote majority, right? Now we’ve kicked out George Santos, we have a three vote majority.

“Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio has taken a college university presidency. That knocks us down to two and I don’t think Kevin McCarthy is gonna stick around long. Every image of his office shows that he’s packing things up in boxes.

“So we could be down to a one-seat majority! We got a bunch of these octogenarians in our conference and God forbid any of them were to cross the rainbow bridge.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry Gaetz, Democrats won't use a majority to do anything anyway.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

No they’ll insist that the Republicans should actually have the majority and it’s only fair to wait