Wow. We don't even need to get a new head of lettuce at this rate. Just keep reusing the existing one
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I find it quite interesting that the two candidates that are perceived to be part of the existing Leadership haven't gotten floor votes, while Jordan got floor votes that failed, and this new guy is likely to, also.
I wonder if this is intentional, because they are afraid of having Democrats decide to throw enough support to the centrist candidates to get them over the line, which would end the standoff but put the new Speaker in an even more precarious position.
Republicans can't seem to solve this in their own Caucus, nor can they work with Democrats at all, even accidentally.
Despite choosing Rep. Tom Emmer as their nominee for House speaker, the GOP faces uncertainty as Donald Trump and other hardliners reject the choice, raising doubts about Emmer's ability to win the gavel.
Have the Republicans that vote against Mccarthy and the ones that voted against Jordan sit down and make a list of every representative they would vote for. Then nominate one they agree on.
The right is too far right of the moderates to agree on anything. They need a few purple state moderates to lay down the future of their seat and sit down with the Democrats and work out a compromise. Being in a purple state and you save the house it just might work out for them. Current course is likely to get them all primaried OR replaced with a Democrat next election.
get them all primaried OR replaced with a Democrat next election
I feel like that's their choice right now. Work with democrats? Get primaried. Don't work with democrats? Democrats win the election.
Working with democrats is poison to the republican base and it's not like democrats are going to vote for a republican as their nominee just because they decided to have a somewhat functioning government.
Nevermind, they went with an election denier that would love to drag us into fascistism as fast as possible. Hopefully every R in a purple district is replaced come election time.
One day I would like to see this session of congress recapped by a literal circus clown act. I think we'd all be able to follow the story even without dialog.
In all seriousness, if the People’s business isn’t being conducted, how can they possibly be getting paid or getting benefits?
I said it in another post that Emmer may have been a decent compromise for Dems to extend an olive branch. I’m not saying they’re at fault at all, just that he seemed reasonable.
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LOL at the downvote brigade
gonna be great when there's no time to do a separate budget so they have to pass an omnibus just to pay the military and then the republicans kick the speaker out again
Aged like a banana.
More like a cut and oxidizing apple really.
Has getting nominated become something like a curse or what?