It would be against house rules for the GOP to nominate Trump for speaker, because he has been indicted for crimes with penalties in excess of 2 years. |
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It would also be really dumb because he's not a consensus-maker. |
I read this on the CNN story: "As speaker pro tempore, the Republican can only recess the House, adjourn the chamber and recognize speaker nominations." So how does he have the authority to order this? |
I hate Trump - a lot - and I don't think he's stupid enough to do this. |
I’d love to hear from the democrats here. Isn’t Scalise, Jordan and Stefanik worse than McCarthy? What is the play from democrats sitting back? To be clear, I don’t think the democrats had the responsibility of saving McCarthy. I just think other options (people) for doing bi-partisan deals are worse. Scalise, Jordan and Stefanik will try to ram down MAGA policies. Sure they won’t get far in the senate. But the one thing that has to get done is the budget. And I see these three nutcases passing so 30% cut to all non-defense agencies. |
I agree. I think the House Dems should have tried to make it work longer with McCarthy. The alternatives are way more extreme. |
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The Democrats voted in a block with the hard right to oust a moderate Republican speaker. The fallout from that will be felt by everyone, not just the hard right. |
If anybody could trust that guy farther than they could throw him he wouldn’t have so many problems. |
If all the Dems and just a few R’s can oust the speaker, then why can’t all the Dems and just a few R’s elect a RINO speaker? Bottom line is that it’s insane that we would have a shutdown when the vast majority of congressmen/senators think a shutdown would be terrible. |