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The question is answered in the first three words. "I'm a Republican" = YTA.

The democrats are not to blame. They have been consistent throughout. They didn't want McCarthy back in January and they didn't want him three weeks ago. The GOP filed the motion to vacate, forcing the democrats to answer honestly: Nope, We Still Don't Want Him. At any time it would have taken about five republicans, fewer than half the number of republicans (and only republicans) that held the chamber hostage for three weeks, to cross the aisle and elect Hakeem Jeffries. If anyone thinks the D bear responsibility, they must admit the GOP bears tenfold.

Blaming Democrats is outright idiotic. Republicans have a majority, and offer no compromise for Democrats to vote for.

YTA. It is just unreasonable to expect a party to vote for the opposing party's Speaker, and if a Speaker can't get enough votes to save themselves, they aren't about to lead an effective coalition.

The option was already dysfunction vs a different kind of dysfunction because of the Republicans who turned against their own Speaker. They would either get a Speaker they approved of or they would bring the House to a standstill. They had already taken to blocking all House business under McCarthy. You just have to blame the dysfunction on them.

What has the Republican Party ever done for you to earn your vote?

AITA: I’m a Republican

YTA

Could have stopped at "AITA: I'm a Republican..." and the answer would be the same.

Yes.

GOP being GOP.

I feel like a lot of people didn't read the article... There wasn't a thread about this, it's just a framing device.

Or maybe I am just being pedantic, idk

YTA and go fuck yourself for voting republicans.

Next?

Disappointing to see so many impulsive replies. READ THE ARTICLE folks, it's well-written.

The claim that Democrats are responsible for the House impasse reads to me like an AITA post. So, imagine that the Republicans claiming that the House inability to get any work done is the fault of the Democrats wrote in to AITA. What would the judgment be?

This isn’t the dems fault, and I don’t think this would have worked (the republicans probably would have chickened out), but in a dream scenario where politics wasn’t politics, I would have liked to see a coalition of both sides come together to elect someone like Emmer (hopefully I got that name right). He was the best solution the dems were ever gonna get, and personally I would have had a lot of respect for dems swallowing their pride and voting for him to keep the far right from taking control.

Of course, it’s all moot as long as the house keeps that awful single person can vote to vacate rule on the books. The far right would have just taken turns with movements to vacate and create a different flavor of turmoil.

All that said, it’s not the dems fault we are here - it’s the fault of the freedom caucus, the party that let those people become candidates, AND the people that voted for them.

The concept behind AITA is that even though a title can lead people in one direction the explainition may take you in another. All the people who didn't read the article and instead made snap judges based off a title.. YTA

Or rather a EHS

Don't you all see how the current reflection of governance is not aligned with the views of the people? Your news pits you all against each other with fear factors. I don't agree with views of Republicans but freedom caucus and my neighbor Bob have different agendas. One is being told someone is trying to destroy them and the other one is on tv telling them that. It's easy to fall in with views your comfortable with and stay there long after they get out of hand. Education takes time

if you think of yourself as a Republican right now, your default state of mind is finding someone to blame for your little headache.. and your default activity is bitching about it as loud as possible to whoever will listen to your crying ass..

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You’re not an asshole. You just don’t understand how majorities work.

Really interesting to spend 2/3 the article framing the discussion. I totally think it works, but I was surprised how much time we devoted to tardiness and speeding tickets.