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You know who would make a great speaker if the house? Liz Truss.
Ah yes... the old "putting out fire with gasoline" approach
Actually, lettuce is fire resistant.
When it's this dry at this point?
Liz Cheney!
I know this isn't going to happen, but at least 5-6 Republicans should vote for Hakeem Jeffries. If the speaker vote isn't going to end, that's their only choice to ease suffering. Meanwhile, I'll just be laughing.
Then Fox News could blame the Democrat-led House for not getting anything passed!
They blame the democrats anyways
Honestly hoping for it. The MAGA crew is going for full dysfunction so they'll stonewall as much as possible. I highly doubt the next speaker will make the concessions mccarthy did, so the best bet to seat a speaker and avoid the endless voting and looming shutdown is to vote for a dem.
No matter how this ends, the Republicans will look even weaker than they already do, so I'm just gonna watch with popcorn.
A candidate forum on Fox News for speaker, lol
What nonsense. I guess that's the only way to get Trump senpai to notice them.
Trump already endorsed Jim Jordan.
Remember a couple three decades ago when we would shake our heads at the chaos of Italian politics with coalitions, porn stars, and nazis? We were so superior.
Fuck ‘em.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Over the past four days, Scalise and Jordan have racked up endorsements from their allies to try to position themselves as the consensus GOP candidate heading into next week’s secret ballot in the Republican conference to be the next speaker.
Trump is also paying close attention to another leadership race, according to sources familiar with the former president’s thinking: House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, who is running to succeed Scalise as majority leader if he moves up the ladder.
Democrats have limited options after they played their hand Tuesday by declining to come to McCarthy’s rescue, and now await whoever emerges as the next speaker – and their negotiating partner with the threat of a shutdown still looming a little more than a month away.
He outlined his case for the speakership on social media Friday, arguing he can build a unifying coalition and naming some top priorities that are big issues on the right: the so-called weaponization of the government, spending cuts and border security.
There’s also a faction of Republicans – particularly those vulnerable in districts President Joe Biden won – concerned about what’s going to happen in mid-November, when the stopgap spending bill that McCarthy helped pass with Democratic votes expires.
Jeffries wrote a Washington Post op-ed on Friday defending Democrats’ decision to vote out McCarthy, saying Republicans rejected making bipartisan changes to the House rules.
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