Speaker of the House Vote Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t tease.

I’m popping in from the regular threads to the politics forum- hi. Can Democrats join in and help vote moderate? Is this possible?

The Republicans would have to nominate a moderate first.

I guess the meat of the question is that the Democrats could join in and help get somebody voted in? I didn’t know this. This is unprecedented in my lifetime.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

link?

He told Fox News, that everyone will be shocked today!!! That means he got the votes!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

link?

He told Fox News, that everyone will be shocked today!!! That means he got the votes!!!

Sure, Jan. He's been claiming he's on the precipice of victory for three days now. Are you the idiot who insisted that he was going to win when Trump came out for him (again)? There's no indication anything has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

You mean all of this preening was just fake theater for the cameras and social mediation?! No way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

You mean all of this preening was just fake theater for the cameras and social mediation?! No way!

Sooo...
Are you anti-McCarthy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

You mean all of this preening was just fake theater for the cameras and social mediation?! No way!

Hey now, don't forget the fundraising opportunities!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

Womp womp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

Womp womp

Shocking...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t tease.

I’m popping in from the regular threads to the politics forum- hi. Can Democrats join in and help vote moderate? Is this possible?

The Republicans would have to nominate a moderate first.

I guess the meat of the question is that the Democrats could join in and help get somebody voted in? I didn’t know this. This is unprecedented in my lifetime.

Yes, any member can vote for whomever they want. So six republicans could end this today by voting for Jeffries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the two year anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection today. Members-elect should wear black armbands, acknowledge the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol, and ask for a moment of silence for the law enforcement officers who died as a result of the attack.

Members-elect should also acknowledge all the members of Congress who, on that day two years ago, worked to keep our democratic republic alive. AND SPECIFICALLY thank Kevin McCarthy for his attempt to stop the violence on that day, quoting his own words, “When they started breaking into my office, myself and the staff got removed from the office. In doing so, I made a phone call to the president telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video, to go out. I was very intense and very loud about it." and reminding everyone of McCarthy’s concurrence with Mitch McConnell that January 6th was a “violent insurrection”.

And after that acknowledgment of McCarthy’s anti-insurrection stance (but not his subsequent back-tracking and Trump licking) just enough Democratic members-elect should vote for him to ensure his election as Speaker of the House on this anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection.

The combination of Democratic votes and an on-the-record, highly visible reminder of his (admittedly brief) stance against Trump and other insurrectionists will erase whatever remains of McCarthy’s ability to lead the Republican party and the House … from the very first day of his Speakership.

While not on the floor of the House, House Minority Leader Jeffries led this very moving ceremony on the Capitol steps this morning:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?525199-1/house-minority-leader-jeffries-marks-january-6-anniversary

During House proceedings today, will even a single Republican member-elect acknowledge the violent attack on our republic two years ago?

[Anonymous]

Okay, it's prediction time.

What's the end game.

I think we all know the most likely thing is that the anti-McCarthy caucus folds at some point.

The question of why they fold is the interesting part:

Someone who actually holds power over them comes in and threatens to take away their cookies and make them go home if they don't finally buckle under. (Who though? Trump? Russia? Fox News? This is the interesting question. Not that we'll know the answer to the question necessarily.)

The Republicans in their districts tell them to get their acts together in some un-ignorable way.

They don't get their paychecks and their staff doesn't get their paychecks and that leads to enough pressure to call their bluff.

I mean, the weirdest part of all of this is their total lack of end game. What is the goal? Do they know? It doesn't seem like they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has the votes!!!
He has the votes
He has the votes!!!
He did it!!!!

Womp womp

Shocking...

+1. Ya think he might have learned something from the first dozen failed votes. He’s like Charlie Brown and the Freedom Caucus is like Lucy with the football.

[Anonymous]

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Also heard from Santos-“chaos like this didn’t happen when I was speaker of the house.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, and I haven't been following this that closely (for shame, especially since I'm a fed! lol)

The Washington Post just announced that Rep. Ted Lieu (D) just voted for Hakeen Jeffries for Speaker. Are the Democrats voting? If so, why don't they just all vote for Jeffries for Speaker? They only need to get a few Rs on their side (which, I know, is pretty much an impossibility).

In a nutshell, no Democrat will vote for a Republican, and no Republican will vote for a Democrat.

No, this is not true. Democrats won't vote for an election saboteur nor someone who will not partner in good faith. If GOP put up one of the handful of non-election deniers a Speaker, Dem would consider it.

Don't try to both sides this. GOP dysfunction and everyone expects the Dems to clean up their sh!t. Just like maintenance had to clean up insurrectionists sh!t.

Like who? I'm struggling to think of any GOP rep who is not somewhere on the spectrum of crazy.

Fred Upton?

He's no longer in Congress. And he's not there because he was run out by the crazies. Why would we think the crazy people that ran him out would now vote for him?

Speaker doesn’t have to be a MoC, which is curious given they are second in the line of succession.

Very interesting. Your point?

NP. The point is that the line of succession was changed from Sec.of State, 2nd in line, to Speaker because it was thought that it should be someone who had been elected,by the people.

Next time maybe you should know what you're talking about before castigating someone else.

Google Presidential succession act of 1947.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michael Waltz (FL) on CNN right now. Basically he said he will not work with Ds and wants to govern as a conservative. And have a tirade against Biden.

F all of them. Let them eat each other while I watch with a nice glass of Chianti.

Don't forget the favs beans.