Rep. Tom Emmer dropped his bid for speaker of the House of Representatives, just hours after he secured the nomination, with former President Donald Trump and dozens of Republican lawmakers expressing opposition to his candidacy.
I said it in another post that Emmer may have been a decent compromise for Dems to extend an olive branch.
Emmer withdrew without ever having a vote by the full house. He chose to withdraw because he couldn’t convince 217 republicans to support him in the private, republican-only votes. At no point did he seek support from democrats, or even give them a chance to vote for him. Republicans are clearly not interested in any olive branches from democrats.
I think it’s just always been party line. Bipartisanship is mostly dead these days too so it’s a tough time.
Eventually we are going to be talking about the democrats bailing them out for nothing because we are about to run out of funding for the government among other things.
Emmer withdrew without ever having a vote by the full house. He chose to withdraw because he couldn’t convince 217 republicans to support him in the private, republican-only votes. At no point did he seek support from democrats, or even give them a chance to vote for him. Republicans are clearly not interested in any olive branches from democrats.
Fair point. If they’re bent on pushing it through along party lines, I can’t imagine a single nominee that’ll satisfy the fringe.
I think it’s just always been party line. Bipartisanship is mostly dead these days too so it’s a tough time.
Eventually we are going to be talking about the democrats bailing them out for nothing because we are about to run out of funding for the government among other things.