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Martin Alvito
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One way to make it clear how bent you are about what just happened.
I would think the holdouts could coalesce around McHenry when they have the ability to block anything as they please, but it's not impossible that I'm more conversant with House rules and their implications than both them and their staffs. I can't see any of them doing their homework, and I can't imagine a rules nerd taking or being offered a position on staff with one of the camera-chasers that put the House here. It only makes sense to hire a nerd if you intend to legislate.
Tactical move to prevent the conference from putting Jordan on the floor. Delaying move while they scramble to find an alternative.
Martin Alvito
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At least there would be the very real threat of getting body-slammed if someone made another motion to vacate the chair.
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House GOP considers Trump-backed Jim Jordan as speaker. Not all Republicans are in favor
Attention has swiftly turned to Rep. Jim Jordan, the pugilistic Judiciary Committee chairman as the next potential candidate.
www.pbs.org
“Someone said ‘You know, you could put Jesus Christ up for Speaker of the House, and he still wouldn’t get 217,” said Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., about the number needed to win a floor vote.
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Perish the thought of them actually working during the weekend.
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I've seen them do it, but it takes a lot. It's probably a good idea. Tensions are running high, blood is up and they all need to regroup. They've already exhausted the logical establishment and Freedom Caucus candidates.
The ones that might find a solution will be working over the weekend. They just won't be doing it in conference.
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Democrats refuse to help GOP out of House speaker mess, trashing Jim Jordan as an 'insurrectionist'
Democratic leaders spoke on the steps of the Capitol and dialed up their rhetoric against Republicans for nominating a conservative firebrand to be the next House speaker.
www.nbcnews.com
Looks like Jeffries has decided to play some hardball.
Democrats refuse to help GOP out of House speaker mess, trashing Jim Jordan as an 'insurrectionist'
Democratic leaders spoke on the steps of the Capitol and dialed up their rhetoric against Republicans for nominating a conservative firebrand to be the next House speaker.
Looks like Jeffries has decided to play some hardball.
I don't see what else they can do. They're not going to help put someone from the Freedom Caucus/MAGA wing of the Republicans in the chair, and if they lend votes to a more centrist character on a promise of some bipartisanship (not that any of those are making much of a name for themselves at the moment) then that Speaker instantly has Gaetz et al baying for their blood and looking to re-enact the McCarthy knifing. Meanwhile the GOP look like absolute clowns who are unable to wield power, which you'd hope harms them electorally next year.
The downside of course is the imminent Shutdown and the fact that a disfunctional House is a wider problem globally with so much kicking off across the world. The US shouldn't be in the position where it plays world policeman and safeguards peace for so many... but that is the reality.
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House rules can be amended with the same simple majority of the House needed to seat a Speaker, and with it they can rewrite the vacate-the-chair rule however they want. That would certainly be part of any deal the Democrats might cut with moderate Republicans, along with committee chairs (they'll want Judiciary to spite Jordan, and stymie the Biden investigation) and a reshaping of Rules.
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