Multiple members emerged from the House GOP’s speaker forum on Tuesday saying they don’t see either candidate being any closer to having the votes needed to secure the gavel on the floor.
Driving the news: “No one is close to 217,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said after Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pitched members on why they believe they should be the next speaker.
Lol is this supposed to be a surprise? They had to vote 15 different times to get their “best” choice just a few months ago. Were they expecting this was somehow going to be easier?
What truly blows my mind is that our government was designed with compromise in mind, but Republicans drank the New Gingrich Koolaid so hard that the idea of compromise has become political suicide for them. I’m hoping that this situation finally makes them realize that a 9 seat majority isn’t exactly a mandate from God, and that they need to work across political lines to govern.
I’m too much of a realist to expect that to happen though. I don’t believe the modern GOP has any interest in governing.
Republicans don’t want to govern though. They’re perfectly fine with the federal government being absolutely crippled; the only reason they’re panicking right now is because they are squarely taking the blame for it and can’t spin it as the Democrats’ fault.
They absolutely will spin it as the Democrats fault and their voters will eat every bit of it up.
It’s the independents (whoever they are) that swing elections in places. And those places fill seats.
We need all swing voters to see the shitshow that is the GOP. It’s already obvious, but I’ve encountered way to many"enlightened/disengaged" voters and I’m ready for them to see that can’t afford that shit now.
Oh, I didn’t say they weren’t trying. But even a dim bulb can figure out that if it takes a majority of the House to elect and keep a Speaker, and the House has a Republican majority, then the reason there isn’t a Speaker is because the majority party can’t keep their shit together.
I think you’re overestimating the majority of the American electorate. A solid chunk of low information voters think Biden is in charge of everything and anything bad that happens is solely his fault.
FTFY
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Kevin McCarthy explicitly said that they know the government was designed with compromise, but they don’t want to, because they’re in the majority and therefore should be able to do whatever they want.
I don’t disagree, but want to add that the beauty of this clusterfuck is that they’re so damn selfish that they even lack the ability to get anything done even with the majority.
Like…you literally have the votes for whatever you wanna do, all you have to do is agree amongst yourselves, and they can’t even manage that. There’s no “we”. Even though “they” have the majority, they really don’t, since a majority doesn’t mean anything if you can’t organize your party.
Of course all of this completely ignores the other 200 plus members of the House, but it’s just plain beyond the realm of possibility to even imagine a world where the GOP centrists, sick of the stupidity from the MAGA wing, lean over the aisle and go, “Okay we’re sick of trying to appease them. What would it take to get a dozen of you guys to sign off on a piece of legislation?”
And the only reason that’s unthinkable is because the entire party is just as pigheaded as Gaetz, they’re just less extreme in their positions and less loudmouthed about it.
Damn them for changing the formula. BRING BACK OLD GINGRICH KOOLAID
It has hotdogs floating in it.
Apparently my phone’s autocorrect refuses to acknowledge that a loving mother would ever name their child Newt.
Back in the day, Ronald Reagan talked about ‘The Big Tent’ and how GOPs shouldn’t slash each other.
Of course, Reagan himself happily backstabbed Gerald Ford by demanding Ford keep the Panama Canal…