House Speaker Ideas?

Now batting, Kevin McCarthy.  McCarthy is 0-6 this year and really struggling to keep his spot in the lineup.  

Yes he is a slump... off the bench now Roy Hobbs..

Yessir. About to be demoted to minor leagues 

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that she was told today there could not be ceremonial swearing-ins without a speaker.

This morning Pelosi had advocated for some sort of swearing-in as family members and others are in Washington for the first day of the new Congress.

“We had to have a speaker in order to do that,” Pelosi said, “we pursued that, they said you have to have an absolute speaker .

See a majority needs to come up with a speaker. This happens abroad much more frequently than here but as speaker 218 duly elected representing districts elect who leads the majority...

I know the qanon trump supporting election deniers make you 17 whole votes...and always pelosis pelosis first fab five groupies make up another 35 or so votes...

Could possibly an independent bipartisan centrist law makers form the new speakership and Congress???? 

Beauty of the speaker ship is you don't even have to be a member constitutionally to hold the post.....

You act like it’s the dems fault that the Republican Party doesn’t have their shit together. Dems don’t have a majority in the house so therefore they can’t block anything. 

Now 20, they are out of the loop as their corporate sponsors haven’t told them who to vote for yet.

Maybe they should elect George Santos as speaker. Check his resume as its probably in there that he has experience.

The one thing Congress does well is waste time.

Or they can elect Joe Biden speaker.

"I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship," Biden said. "The first year in law school, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class. And then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class."

Biden also claimed he "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school."

Biden graduated from Syracuse University’s law school in 1968, but not in the top half of his class. He also did not receive three undergraduate degrees.  Biden didn’t attend law school on a full academic scholarship, either.

Irony here is the majority in the GOP are genuinely ticked that a MINORITY of elected reps are voting only to block McCarthy.  They offer no alternative; to fix things.  No.  No plan, no better alternative.   Just stubbornly voting against what the majority wants.

Funny how things come full circle like that on the republicans.

It's almost as if they are getting exactly what they deserve.

Imagine if Nurse Ratched put Randle McMurphy in charge of medicine time and then complained that things were not going so well at the hospital.

That is the House GOP in a nutshell.

Mercifully the "GOP 3 ring Circus and Clown Show" has been pushed until noon tomorrow.

My republican neighbors have stopped talking to me.  Not for anything like differences in ideology.  No, we get along fine, great even!  It's just that right now they are way too embarrassed by the House GOP.

Thank God the Biden administration never embarrassed anyone.  Especially Kamala Harris, Buttiegieg and Joe Biden himself.  They are really doing an amazing job.  Terrific.   

You're seeing the light!    

Bobo Boebert being interviewed on FOX tonight...

Brett Bair: "Number one, moving the goalposts but number two, they say is untenable for any leader. How do you respond?"

Bobo" "Um, there is nothing we proposed that is unattainable for him."

She embarrasses all you GED educated deplorables out there.

Good Lord....

BTW..watch Bobo play the fool on Stephanie Ruhle's show tonight. Ruhle will have to use little bitty words of two syllables or less during the interview for her.

This will be an accident waiting to happen...

Can't wait..

Greg Steube (R-FL) with tragic news:

“Every day that we sit up here .. with these 20 Members holding out .. is a day that Jim Jordan can’t get on the Judiciary Committee & start investigating the FBI, DOJ, Hunter Biden, Afghanistan .. We can’t do anything until a Speaker is elected.”

Those are the priorities. Not the border, not the crime, not the fentanyl, not infrastructure.....nope, none of the country's real problems. Nope...

This is your GOP!

Jim Jordan trying to save a guy getting screwed?????

Well, that's out of character for him.

Negotiations begin with democrats.

Speaking with The Intercept, Ocasio-Cortez said Gaetz told her that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy — who is vying for the role of House speaker — was trying to convince the GOP he could cut a deal with the Democratic Party to get the job.

Maybe not Kevin however another perhaps... Who is the majority whip in this class....

There is history here.

So stop saying unprecedented.

Gillett was a 72-year-old Boston Brahmin with a Harvard law degree who was serving his 15th term in the House. He had first grasped the big gavel years earlier, after Republicans seized the House majority in the 1918 midterms the month World War I ended.

Two years after that, Gillett's party rode to a huge majority on the same postwar wave that swept Warren G. Harding into the White House in 1920. The party of Lincoln was gaining ground in most of the country and beginning a decade of Washington domination in the White House and Congress alike.

But the brief era of the Harding administration stalled the party's momentum. The economy was still recovering from its postwar recession and labor unrest was widespread, including major strikes by coal miners and railroad workers.

The House had also brought criticism on itself in 1921 and 1922 by refusing to accept the official U.S. Census of 1920. That renewal of the decennial study documented how immigration had exploded and, for the first time, more Americans were living in urban areas than rural.

These controversies, coupled with the typical swing of the midterm political mood led to Harding's GOP losing 75 House seats and a net of 6 Senate seats in 1922. It was a worse shellacking than Barack Obama or any other president of the past four decades would experience in his first midterm.

Ultimately, however, Gillett survived. Although the voting continued for days, no clear alternative emerged with any chance of getting a majority. In the end, he was able to win over the Cooper voters with the help of his No. 2 leader, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. Widely viewed as Gillett's heir apparent, Longworth was able to convince enough of the progressives that there would in fact be procedural reforms.

Getting Gillett over the finish line took a total of nine ballots, and in the end some of Cooper's backers simply voted "present." The speaker was reelected with just 215 votes. (That was a majority because by then only 414 members were present and voting for a name.)

There were those this week who suggested this might be a model for McCarthy's strategy as well: Vote, wait, vote again, repeat. Over many votes and ballots, some of the less zealous members might drift away as the hour grew late or the weekend grew near.

I no it looks like a no hitter but be patient the last fiasco involving a damaged administration indeed worked out till the great depression where democrats cemented control....

How many Kevin McCarthys does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Well, he needs the House first.

Actually, that was a trick question because McCarthy doesn't have the volts.

I'll be here all week...

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