I wonder how long it will take for 5 or 6 Republicans from strong Biden districts to say fuck it and throw in behind Jeffries?
And is that longer than it will take the Republican conference to get their shit together and vote on a new speaker?
It seems to me like the problem the Republicans have is the Trump faction that has no interest in government functioning at all. If we assume those votes are unattainable, do they even have a majority/plurality?
Can the Speaker Pro Tempore keep the house out of session? If it’s “pending the call of the chair,” do they still do the daily pro forma session?
Hey, with the House like not actually running, can Biden make a bunch of recess moves? I feel like I remember Pelosi purposely keeping the House technically “in session” to cock block Trump on some things…
If 5 or 6 Republicans support Jeffries, they will effectively be leaving the Republican party. They are guaranteed to have a primary challenge, and lose any funding from the party. I don’t think that’s likely to happen, but who knows? Maybe a small group will decide they have a better chance running (I) than ®.
The Freedom Caucus absolutely is interested in governing, they just want to govern on their own terms and view any compromise as weakness. They place so little value in a functioning government that they would rather bring it all to a halt than compromise. Remember what got us here in the first place, they were ready to shut the entire government down and got mad when Kevin used Democratic votes to pass a stop-gap. They will take shutting down the House for all business as a consolation prize.
I would be curious if a centrist Republican could work with (centrist) Democrats to gain the speakership in exchange for some key concessions, such as pledging to not follow the Hastert Rule (a rule that most Republican speakers follow, that they will block a bill that does not have the support of the majority of the majority (Republican) party even if a bipartisan majority supports it). That assumes that a lot of Democrats will trust a Republican to be bipartisan and not weasel out of their word or be pressured by their party follow partisan lines.
There is zero reason for Democrats to throw any votes behind a Republican speaker. If the majority party can’t find a leader they agree on, that’s on them. Dems only need 5 Reps to back Jefferies.
Actually, the main thing that would block this at this point is that there is a Speaker Pro Tempore, and while he can’t do much one of the few things he can do is keep the House in recess until a Republican has enough Republican votes to win the election.
So, even in the hypothetical case where there is a centrist Republican who can pull this off, that person will have to get Patrick to agree to open the House to hold the vote in the first place.
It would have been more news worthy if they actually had managed to agree. At this point the squabbling pack of cranky toddlers masquerading as adults that are the Republican party shouldn’t really be surprising to anyone. It would be funny if these absolute wastes of oxygen weren’t nominally running a country.
Their intention has never been to run the country. It is to KEEP the adults (Democrats, sane Republicans, if there are any left) from running the country and paralyze the government. If nothing can get done, then the government isn’t, for example, passing laws to restrict corporate power, or make anybody’s life better. The rich and powerful have no counterweight.
Look at it from a purely strategic point of view. There’s no reason any smart person would want the job at this point. The Clown Team has shown that they can do exactly what they want with zero consequences, so there’s no way a GOP Speaker can make any kind of deal with anyone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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Did you use an AI tool for that summary? I’d love to get access to it if so, it’s the most accurate I’ve seen so far!
Scalise is bleeding votes.
Apparently publicly calling yourself “David Duke without the baggage” creates baggage…
Guess not all Republicans are ready to stop pretending they care about non-white people.
Funny thing is compared to Jordan, Scalice is the “sane” option.
These chucklefucks couldn’t lead themselves out of a wet paper bag.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Republicans were on the verge of open revolt Wednesday after the ideologically fractious conference failed to coalesce around a speaker nominee, leaving the chamber rudderless and leaderless for an eighth day.
The inability of House Republicans to agree on who will lead them has left the chamber in an effective standstill since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted as speaker, unable to consider any legislation to aid Israel in its war against Hamas or pass any appropriation bills to avoid a potential government shutdown in mid-November.
But in a conference where emotions are raw, divisions are deep and grudges are held after the McCarthy ouster, the slight was another example of the discord that has complicated House Republicans’ ability to elect a new speaker.
Democrats have no plans to help elect either Republican candidate as speaker and instead will vote for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) as they did during the 15 rounds of balloting it took for McCarthy to win the gavel this year.
Scalise and his allies worked on tabling the motion because they knew he would win the nomination with a simple majority, and made a bet that it would be easier to coalesce around him on the House floor with the public pressure of the cameras rather than if the vote were closed.
Multiple lawmakers who attended candidate forums this past week said Jordan proposed putting forward a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, that funds the government at current levels for six months.
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A CR that’s six months long is just a budget by another name.
Deja Vu. 🍿
There’s pressure on them to figure out something quickly with ongoing world events. That’s pretty much the last thing the GOP needed to calm down divisions
