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btaf45 ,

Dems need to nominate Liz Cheney for speaker. They could easily get 20 GOP votes (she was their former leader) but would only need 5 of their votes. She would still be Republican but she is also a loyal American.

stolid_agnostic ,

Didn’t she not get elected?

nolefan33 ,

Weirdly enough, being a member of the House is not a requirement to be Speaker.

stolid_agnostic ,

That’s true.

btaf45 ,

You don’t have to be a congressman to be the House Speaker. Putting her up as Speaker would be a big fuck you to the people who didn’t reelect her.

stolid_agnostic ,

I approve.

pastabatman ,

The reasonable Republicans have always had the option of approaching the Democrats and making concessions in order to get a speaker elected on a bipartisan basis, they just haven’t.

btaf45 ,

We are talking about a speaker elected by all Dems and a small number of Republicans. It would have to be Dems to set that up.

candybrie ,

Won’t work this go around. The speaker pro tempore wouldn’t let the vote get to the floor if they thought that might happen. It’s an all republican circus this time.

btaf45 ,

He literally has to schedule floor votes. It is his only job and the constitution requires that there must be a speaker. His only power is to decide when the next vote is scheduled. He cannot control how anyone votes.

candybrie ,

Yes but he will not be scheduling a vote if he thinks that has any chance of happening. And you aren’t coordinating 217 people without him noticing. The constitution doesn’t say how often they have to vote and there aren’t exactly precedents requiring him to schedule a vote if he doesn’t want to.

btaf45 ,

Yes but he will not be scheduling a vote if he thinks that has any chance of happening

This assumption that one person could force the House to never have a speaker is a ridiculously nonsensical argument. It is literally an impossibility for there never to be a vote for speaker. There is a 0% chance of that happening. The constitution requires it. If there is too long of a delay than the members can and obviously would hold a vote without him. And the GOP would pay a huge price in the next election for attempting to bring the idiocy to a new level.

candybrie ,

You’re right, it’s an impossibility for there never to be a vote for speaker. But the GOP is in the driver seat. They’ll either come to a consensus or there will not be a speaker until the next congress, which is in 14 months. They’ll probably come to a consensus because, you’re right, the electoral consequences are probably too great if they don’t. But there is virtually no chance that democrats and a handful of Republicans are going to get to decide the speaker this term.

btaf45 ,

or there will not be a speaker until the next congress, which is in 14 months.

That is not a possibility. That is a completely impossible scenario for a large variety of reasons.

But there is virtually no chance that democrats and a handful of Republicans are going to get to decide the speaker this term.

There is a very significant chance. Cross party coalitions are a very common thing in state legislatures. And even Republicans are getting totally fed up with the anti-American neofascists in their party.

paholg ,

Is it really that ridiculous? One man forced the Senate to never vote on a Supreme Court Justice, and they have the constitutional obligation to do that.

The GOP also paid no price for that.

btaf45 ,

Yes, it is really that ridiculous.

One man forced the Senate to never vote on a Supreme Court Justice

Nope. That one man was backed by the majority of members.

paholg ,

If you think the majority of the GOP want a functioning government, then I got some bad news for you.

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