Why not just vote for him as the new Speaker, rather than changing the rules?
Chaooooooos
Doesn’t government funding end (again) in like a month?
Goddamn this is a shitshow. If the government shuts down & this hasn’t been resolved, what happens?
Idk in reasonable countries it seems like there’d be an election because our two party system keeps failing to form a government
In a reasonable country, we’d have a parliamentary system that enables more political parties, and in a really reasonable one we’d have preference style voking like Ranked Choice Voting (fairvote.org) so that extremist primary candidates wouldn’t control everything.
The main threat the GOP is using to force their caucus to vote for an insurrectionist Speaker candidate is the threat of being primaried by a MAGA nut job if they don’t toe the party line. Our system is built to reinforce a two party system, no matter how crazy one of parties is.
If the government shuts down & this hasn’t been resolved, what happens?
The GOP blames Biden.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Jim Jordan’s first failed bid to secure the speakership has renewed calls for expanding the limited powers of Speaker Pro Temp Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.)
Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.) – who has pledged to continue to vote for McCarthy for speaker – told reporters Tuesday that moves to further empower McHenry have gained momentum – “as they should.”
“If it’s gonna take us a while to get to a Speaker, then yeah, we need to give Patrick McHenry some of those powers and allow the House to conduct its business.
His move comes after a letter from the Republican Governance Group last week likewise encouraging some sort of expansion of McHenry’s role.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who has said he will not back Jordan, said he would support a resolution for “a 30-day speaker,” calling McHenry a logical choice for handling “urgent” issues supplemental funding for Israel and Ukraine.
And Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), another longtime Jordan backer, said he doesn’t know that a resolution to expand McHenry’s role would be able to secure enough votes.
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