Though the House still hasn’t been called yet after the midterms, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) kicked off his long-awaited journey to the House speakership on Wednesday, sending a letter to the rest of the House Republican Conference that formally announced his campaign for the top leadership role.
GOP in ginormous disarray…
Trump won’t do it, too much work.
And Gym needs to think about how many times he’d have to wear his suit jacket.
I don’t have it in me to feel bad for McCarthy, but I have some popcorn for the schadenfraude headed his way. God, just imagine a less herdable group of feral cats he has to deal with with barely a vote to spare.
Sadly, the best choice for a Rethugliklan Speaker — Louie Gohmert — is no longer a member of the House. But there’s always Virginia Foxx.
but you’ll never see that as a NY Times headline…
Nevah!
Bigly
Geeeeesus! Virginia Foxx! She could handle the MAGGOTS. She is certainly vicious enough to keep them in line, but that “line” would be the nth degree of authoritarian dictatorship.
Inflation hurts everyone. The remedy of high interest rates, puts bankers first in line for relief.
The better policy to fight inflation, a sharply progressive income tax that would balance the federal budget over the business cycle, is not even on the table because Republicans are life and death opposed to that while Democrats are by and large chicken shit to even mention the topic.
So the two parties take turns firing one another without the right policy ever even being tried. This is why people get angry enough to go beat the Speaker’s husband nearly to death.
The real problems that people are right to be angry about, keep never getting solved.
If, when the time comes for a vote for Speaker, they are unable to elect a new Speaker, would that mean that Nancy Pelosi would remain as Speaker?
If you ain’t screwing under age girls you have no place in the Republican Party.
Once Republicans realize the Speaker gets to stand behind Joe at the SOTU, the Race to the Bottom begins.
They will backstab each other to be able to performatively Rip up Joe’s Speech for the cameras…
I believe it is like the pope. Until the white smoke nothing gets done
No. From wiki:
To be elected speaker, a candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast. If no candidate wins a majority, the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. Multiple roll calls have been necessary only 14 times (out of 126 speakership elections) since 1789; and not since 1923 68th Congress, when a closely divided House needed nine ballots to elect Frederick H. Gillett speaker.
Wish it were a plurality instead of a majority. Then we could wish for Republican infighting to keep the gavel in Pelosi’s hands.
I hust saw that the members want to establish a rule that any member can call for the speakers resignation for any reason
PLEASE pass that and let the good times roll
Margie Three-Toes wants to be Speaker.
I couldn’t type that without laughing out loud.
While I am hugely enjoying watching qevin thrash and twist, I have a bad feeling we’re gonna end up with Speaker Singlet.
Thanks, but what you cited “from wiki” does not really answer my question. It merely states the procedure for electing the Speaker. It does not address my question, which asks who, if anyone, serves as the Speaker until a new one is elected.
The Speaker is not required to be a member.