{"id":19655,"date":"2023-01-06T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:09:22","slug":"concessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/01\/06\/concessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Concessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/house-speaker-leadership-vote-01-06-23\/h_aa6925a3fe102cc9deb4c42a65bbbe4b\">list on CNN<\/a> of \u201csome of the major concessions and promises McCarthy has made over the course of the negotiations, according to CNN reporting.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>So below is a different list: some of the major concessions and promises McCarthy has made over the course of the negotiations, according to JED reporting.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Any member can call for a motion to officially designate the Speaker as a \u201cfoofoohead\u201d or a \u201cliar liar pants on fire.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>Bathroom breaks must be long enough to check email.<\/li>\r\n  <li>McCarthy\u2019s leadership PAC won\u2019t play Yahtzee or banjo except when requested in writing.<\/li>\r\n  <li>No member may bring <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3798971-popcorn-and-blankets-and-alcohol-gop-lawmaker-jabs-dems-amid-speaker-vote\/\">popcorn and blankets and alcohol and blankets<\/a> to the House floor. Pillows are allowed, but only with explicit permission from the Speaker.<\/li>\r\n  <li>All members are allowed to embellish their resumes with the approval of George Santos.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A hand-painted \u201cNo Democrats Allowed\u201d sign will be nailed up over the entrance.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Cap discretionary spending at fiscal 1950 levels.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A new oath will be added to the swearing-in ceremony, requiring Representatives to swear that the January 6th insurrectionists were just ordinary Americans having good clean fun.<\/li>\r\n  <li>No governing or lawmaking will be allowed while Congress is in session.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Create a committee to weaponize the word \u201cweaponization.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>Cap the debt ceiling at fiscal 1950 levels.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Restore the Fussbudget rule, which can be used to throw a temper tantrum at any time.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Any vote that doesn\u2019t go the way the Freedom Caucus wants must be redone.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Hold votes on key conservative bills. Those bills must be guaranteed to pass.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Cap the number of POC and white women in the House at fiscal 1950 levels.<\/li>\r\n  <li>All committees to be staffed exclusively by Freedom Caucus members.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Give members the ability to offer more amendments after a bill is signed into law.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The entire House must participate in thorough investigations of every living or dead human and animal with the surnames Biden or Clinton.<\/li>\r\n  <li>McCarthy must set up a \u201cconcessions stand\u201d where he will give further concessions to any Freedom Caucus member who asks for them.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Cap liberal ideas at fiscal 1950 levels.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19658,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}