Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is marching ahead with his Speakership bid despite increasingly grim signs for his path to the gavel, eyeing another floor vote on Thursday even as GOP lawmakers signal that his opposition is likely to grow.
“The expectation is, at least from the chatter I’m hearing, is that there will be some others that will move away from the Jordan candidacy,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), who voted for Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the first two ballots, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s very clear that those numbers are not there and that it’s gonna get a lot worse,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who also backed Scalise in the first two rounds of voting, said after Jordan’s second failed vote, noting that he does not think he has a path to the gavel.
One centrist Republican who supported Jordan on the first two ballots said they are planning to jump ship.
“I committed to two votes. I’m not able to on the 3rd,” the lawmaker told The Hill in a text message.
Another Republican told The Hill that slowly increasing the number of votes against Jordan is a strategy among those opposing the Ohio Republican.
“I ache for him,” President Biden told reporters while chuckling when asked if he has a view on Jordan’s “current predicament” on Capitol Hill. “No. Zero. None.”
Glad to see POTUS being nonpartisan and not acting like it’s junior high school politics… not… Kinda has a little more impact than just the shitty optics. I don’t really give much of a fuck that the republican party is looking like a little tiny car with a whole lotta clowns in it, but I damned sure give a shit that it’s having some collateral effects, and POTUS damned sure ought to as well.
This stupid fuck had 8 years as Obama’s second, watching him react to situations just like this by telling people to be mindful of the consequences of their actions, or sometimes, just outright telling people to grow the fuck up… Biden could 100% have responded to the media with “republicans need to grow the fuck up” in exactly those terms, and cashed in huge returns in public and even legislator opinions of him, but he doesn’t even have the tiny bit of sense it takes to understand that.
I hate literally all of these fuckers… I hate that theyve all become 12 year old children in their level of maturity, I hate that the majority of politics is focused on making anyone else look really shitty so their own shittiness seems ok, and I really really fucking hate that everyone is so absolutely fucked right now that trump is an actual viable fucking option. The bar should have never ever gotten low enough for trump to have a shot at it, and an actual second shot at it is just fucking absurdity…
Literally everyone in politics right now needs to grow the fuck up a little.
That’s the Fetterman approach - and good on him. Biden is built different and that’s not a bad thing. Let Fetterman attack and the President reconcile.
I like fetterman :) Dems oughta put that dude on the next ticket if he’s willing, he’d bring some much needed respectability and bipartisanship back to the POTUS position, and I’d put good money on him sweeping the swing states easily.
It’s genuinely hilarious that you don’t see the irony in criticizing them for being immature 12 year old children while simultaneously being unable to write a single sentence without using “fuck” and calling Biden a “stupid fuck”.
Truly, that is the mark of wise maturity.