Compromise is the heart of democracy; it might taste vile in your mouth, but coming to an agreement with your countrymen is the only way forward. Republicans only want a government that represents them and represses everyone else. THAT is why they love the traitor trump, because he promises to only be their president and no one else’s. The truth is he only cares about himself and will sell this country for a song if it is to his benefit.
Just like he did when he shared highly sensitive information about the defense system in Gaza with Putin, who then traded that info for ammo to the Iranians, who then passed it along to Hamas, who, well, you know how that went.
I nominate Arnold Schwarzenegger for speaker.
He’ll get enough votes from both parties. His dad also fought for and was ruined by fascism so he has a pretty big hard on against all of it. Sensible choice in nonsensical times.
The doors really open wide when you consider that the nominee can be someone outside of the House. I nominate my 14 year old nephew, i think he'd at least do better than any republican in congress.
i nominate a magic 8-ball for the same reason
Nominate the gavel. At least it has experience.
Exactly.
Democrats can (and should) go out and find excellent, apolitical candidates. National heroes. We can't get Jeffries, OK. Understood. You can't all agree on much, but you are united in not wanting a Democratic political operative as speaker. Understandable.
Can any of the 221 GOP representatives stack up against former astronaut Scott Kelly? How about a random 9/11 firefighter? Any of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients?
Any candidate for speaker think they can compare favorably to any of these people?
The speaker does not need to be a member of Congress, and the Speakership does not need to be a political position. Let's establish a tradition where if we can't get a partisan majority for speaker, we look for our candidate from the nation as a whole.
I suggest a magic 8 ball, and a person to shake and read it.
Seconded. Swear em in
I can’t wait to see how they try to blame the Democrats for this.
Jordan is a democrat plant, obviously.
Edit: this is a joke, I didn’t want to insult all the plants. I love plants. I hate Jordan.
He's antifa duh
I think there is an easy but painful way out, vote for Jeffries.
The easier (and less painful) way out is to elevate SpongeBob... Er.... Patrick temporarily to get shit done. But the idiots on the Right don't want to do anything at all that includes Democratic votes. They are acting like they have a 40 seat majority , not a 4 seat majority.
He himself doesn't want his role to be elevated and is threatening to quit if they do that. And if they want him to be the speaker he wants to be officially elected.
Good on him for that, and may we all follow in his footsteps; don't accept additional work responsibilities unless it comes with the title, pay, perks, etc.
I could be mistaken but I thought he was threatening to quit when some Republicans were floating the idea of him doing more without elevating his role with a vote. Like just start doing speaker stuff anyway.
I oppose Republicans, but I don't want to see that done either. They should either eliminate the position entirely (change the Constitution) or elect someone. If they can't elect someone, then Congress should grind to a halt until it's done, and we deserve the fallout that brings.
Because we, the people, voted for this shit show.
Hopefully we do better next go around
Not all of us, but yeah, large swaths of gerrymandered (and not) population did.
There’s also the classic problem of “they’re all crooks and bums… except my guy.”
We? Fuck no.
Keebler elf is immediately what I thought.
They act like they have all 435 seats regardless of if they have a majority or a minority.
I have the same reaction as AOC last time this happened.
That is an incredible photo, lol.
I rarely save pics anymore, but goddamned, that one's a classic.
And another Trump endorsement fails spectacularly.
I guess all those coordinated death threats backfired.
Now he can go back to his old job- Appearing on Fox. He's done so 128 times this year.
Oh come on, he's been in office 16 years and passed exactly...checks notes ... 0 bills!
Wait, I'm confused. I thought he wasn't going to run a 3rd time? But he still ran and lost, and now the GOP is dropping him entirely from the running?
It's almost as if the GOP is suffering through a clusterfuck clownshow of its own making.
Secret ballot - they were finding out what representatives really think about him by not doing it in public
do republicans even have a “square one” anymore?
It's hard to find square one when they have Trump's balls in their mouths.
A well deserved bye to Gym Jordan
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these chimps have no idea where to find Square One.. they're trying to drag everyone else down to Square Zero with them..
Buh bye Gymbo
Why was this clown even in the running. This party is insane.
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