Republicans officially take over the House Tuesday with a razor-thin majority. Freshman representatives will be sworn in and members will vote on the House speaker. There is still a lot unknown about how the speakership vote will go but it is expected to be long and chaotic.
I keep thinking, “people voted for this.”
Let it burn.
Voters may not have all realized that a vote for any Republican these days is a vote for the most extreme MAGA/QAnon figures to lead the party.
McCarthy is such a dummy. We should thank our lucky stars for him every day. Imagine the damage someone with a brain (like McConnell) could do in his position.
It’s no accident, of course. Stupid ideologies yield stupid leaders. McConnell is a holdover from a previous generation.
Disfunction is the best we can hope for.
With all the news coverage about poor Kevin, I haven’t seen anything about the the Dems are up to. Typical MSM coverage of Republicans as The Story. Will the Democrats vote uniformly for their leadership? What parliamentary wrenches could they throw in the works?
And way too many Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters were happy to concede the House in 2023 the moment Biden took office in 2021, even knowing the outcome would be a total shitshow. Granted, they did overperform expectations so they didn’t totally give up, but imagine if the tone was always that sort of optimism and not the doom and gloom we mostly got.
(Note this is not a Blame the Democrats post. This is continued frustration at the defeatist mentality before the contest even started.)
Can’t wait until Qevin loses the first few rounds and the NYT launches the whole “The Democrats should be responsible and join with the Republicans to elect a speaker, for the good of the nation” take.
Stupidity, being wooden-headed, selfish, and bigoted is in the Kevin McCarthy DNA.
I really hope it goes to 3 or 4 votes. 
According to CNN dear little Kevin raised his voice in his own defense.
What does a Putin/Trump wimp sound like when he raises his voice?
A real sap.
(Can’t spell “speaker” without “s-a-p” …)
“Freshman representatives will be sworn in and members will vote on the House speaker.”
There’s a problem with that statement, assisted by the media’s insistence that Kevin needs George Santos’ vote for Speaker.
Freshmen Representatives are sworn in by the Speaker. They aren’t Members until a Speaker is chosen. So, none of the new GOP reps (or Dem reps for that matter) can vote for Speaker until that election is over and he (I don’t think there any female candidates) swears them in. According to Lawrence O’Donnell last night, until there’s a Speaker the Clerk of the House (in this case chosen by Nancy) is the acting presiding official for the purpose of keeping order.
Moreover, they can’t change the rules of the House to allow Freshmen to vote before being sworn, because the existing rules require the Speaker to put them to a vote.
That’s what they said on RMS last night as well.
So far as I understand it, the only leadership position that requires a majority vote of the full House is for Speaker. Every other position is voted on by the respective caucuses, not the House. So if a handful of Dems want to take a stand against Hakeem Jeffries for whatever reason, it’s not going to make the slightest difference to his election as Minority Leader.
“It’s MY TURN!” he sobbed.
I prefer Squeaker.
