For more circus laughs, GOP should go with Plan C, and then McCarthy should resign.
For more circus laughs, GOP should go with Plan C, and then McCarthy should resign.
I was pointing out we had diverse leadership with Nancy Pelosi as speaker and that worked fairly well. Republicans go back to white guy rule and this is the result.I had to read that a few times to figure out what you were saying. Evidently you mean diversity, why do the Rs hate it. Well, thinking, people who are out there on the diversity scale tend to shy away from those who do not embrace diversity, eh? Common sense. Therefore the Democratic Party, those who represent and those who vote for their candidates are more diverse.
Where I live almost nobody votes R! I have never in my life. It's hell of diverse here, so much so that I have the sense that everybody is in the minority, unless you lump together various constituencies.
I AM a Nancy Pelosi fan! She said she got her chops managing a large family, said that managing The House was way easier.I was pointing out we had diverse leadership with Nancy Pelosi as speaker and that worked fairly well. Republicans go back to white guy rule and this is the result.
That's in 1/2 an hour.Supposed to start at noon.
Yeah with how much pandering the spineless one did, afraid what the next jellyfish speaker is capable of?I absolutely fail to see what sort of improvement Gym Jordan would be over McCarthy, especially if they retain the same rule allowing any R to bring down the speakership.
The best practical resolution at this point would be Jordan fails and McCarthy comes back, but only after he insists on a repeal of that rule first. Of course that would require McCarthy to show a spine-odds are if he does come back it will under the same set of rules as before.
If it ends up being little Gymmie...he won't need to pander much. He's one of the extremes in there already, focused on conspiracies instead of reality and acting vindictively towards Democrats or anyone he doesn't like (or that the orange god doesn't like, etc).Yeah with how much pandering the spineless one did, afraid what the next jellyfish speaker is capable of?
To be elected speaker, a candidate must receive a majority of votes from the members present and voting. If no candidate wins a majority, the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. Looks like Jeffries will get about 49%, Jordan about 46%, and others make up the rest of the votes. No one got a majority (over 50%). Jeffries will get a plurality (most votes but not over 50%).What is the voting system involved here? Why can't all the candidates just put themselves forward, and then the one who gets the most votes become Speaker? Presumably it's not just simple majority vote (or plurality or single-transferable vote, or ordered-preference voting) or this would have been resolved ages ago, but what's the exact complication that seems to make it impossible to elect _anyone_?
(Tried to google that but just found lots of accounts of the shennanigans that have been going on, without a clear explanation of what the voting procedure actually is in principle)
There's really no complication here - it's that Republicans are insisting on electing a speaker with only Republican votes and they can't settle on anyone. It would be extremely easy to elect a speaker if a handful of Republicans made a deal with Democrats to elect a moderate Republican in exchange for some process concessions.What is the voting system involved here? Why can't all the candidates just put themselves forward, and then the one who gets the most votes become Speaker? Presumably it's not just simple majority vote (or plurality or single-transferable vote, or ordered-preference voting) or this would have been resolved ages ago, but what's the exact complication that seems to make it impossible to elect _anyone_?
(Tried to google that but just found lots of accounts of the shennanigans that have been going on, without a clear explanation of what the voting procedure actually is in principle)