Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:

That would be a good development but not very 2023. Still we can hope.

Ain't gonna happen. I'm surprised that even it got as far as it did...

[jon-nyc]

@taiwan_girl said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:

Yes, I dont see how Rep. Jordan can win. As one of the reps. said, voting for him is rewarding the very few few R. representatives who voted to remove Rep. McCarthy.

That would be letting the terrorists win.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Jordan lost the vote.

In other heartening news, there was a brief bipartisan moment.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-could-become-speaker-without-house-majority-risky-gambit-last-used-before-civil-war

...Jordan does not necessarily need to get the required House majority to take the gavel. The House has elected a speaker a few times in history on a plurality rather than an outright majority.

The House is allowed to decide how the speaker election is held, according to House Practice, so changing the threshold is an option on the table.

In fact, there have been two plurality elections to decide the House speaker in American history.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah but the people who don't want Jordan to be speaker wouldn't vote for that either, one would think.

[Jolly]

Fine.

Let it just sit.

[jon-nyc]

Going after the spouses?

[Horace]

Is that like "death threats" and their usefulness in the social discussion?

[taiwan_girl]

@Horace said in Will McCarthy be Vacated from Speakership? Who Will Succeed McCarthy?:

Is that like "death threats" and their usefulness in the social discussion?

I don't it is equivalent to death threats but it is pretty low to do something like that to a spouse.

Of course, there is no proof or evidence of who was doing the message to Mrs. Bacon.

[jon-nyc]

He lost vote 2 by an even larger margin.

Time to go, Jimbo.

[George K]

What a bunch of maroons.

What's the end game for these clowns?

[jon-nyc]

I think they’ll end up giving full speaker power to the pro-tem guy, without actually electing him speaker.

It’s sort of like the budget, they can’t pass one, so they do ‘continuing resolutions’. Now they bring that concept to house leadership itself.

[Axtremus]

McCarthy was close to and appointed that pro-tem guy, so it will be a lot like a continuance of McCarthy's speakership. And once given power, the pro-tem guy may have even freer rein to compromise with the Dems because he's not gunning for real Speakership and thus not as beholden to the moron caucus.

Is too optimistic?

[jon-nyc]

John Boehner received a vote in this last tally. Lol. That’s a great ‘fuck you’ to Jordan, recall Boehner once called Jordan a ‘legislative terrorist’.

[jon-nyc]

Interesting piece about how limping along with McHenry might work, written by a former staffer to Speaker Boehner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/opinion/patrick-mchenry-interim-speaker-powers.html

[Jolly]

I ain't skeered...

[George K]

Jordan gives up his effort - wants to enable McHenry to be Speaker Pro-tem.

[Axtremus]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/patrick-mchenry-house-speaker-pro-tempore-threaten-quit-rcna121314

The pro tempore guy Rep. McHenry is threatening to quit if the House GOP pressures him to move legislation without explicitly voting to expand the pro tempore's powers.

I don't blame him. It would be chicken shit of the House GOP if they force the pro tempore to move legislation without having the courage to vote to give the pro tempore that power.