Nothing embarrassing about it. This is just the process that is in place that is working.
I don't know, kinda looks like a clown show to me. Those 20 are showing the other 200 they think they are more important than them. I don't think any of the options for speaker is better than the other, but I'm ready for them to at least start the useless investigations. Need to get on with it and vote in McCarthy b/c the next option will be to change the rules to a simple majority and then those 20 won't have a choice unless they want a democrat to be speaker and they would look pretty damn stupid then.
A simple majority is one of the things the 20 is demanding. They want to have it so just five members can oust the speaker.
It's the minority running the majority. Usually when that happens on here or anywhere else, folks usually say "Shut the hell up and go away."
That doesn't make it OK. But it's usually what happens. Not this time, though.
None of this is new, though. It's happened in Congress before albeit not to this public degree. When a little gaggle of Ds or Rs haven't gotten their way before on something, they muck up the votign and proceedings until they get changes or it dies. Typical politics. It's just being played out bigger now because this is the third in line to the presidency and McCarthy has been a looming figure for years.
I agree with hallb, this isn’t the hill to die on.
Ok so McCarthy is a special interest dweeb, how is Jim Jordan not? Any of them that’s been up there for longer than one term answers to someone other than their constituents. This is just more BS political theater
Exactly.
