What will the Speaker vote look like?

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...

Why do you think the "90%" figure is correct or that it is important?

[89th]

@Jolly said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Y'all do realise that 90% of the country doesn't know this is happening or doesn't care...

That is probably true. Heck, I didn't care until about yesterday when I started to google what this was all about.

[taiwan_girl]

@Axtremus said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Op-ed/analysis on why McCarthy won't ask Democrats for help to be elected Speaker:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/mccarthy-speaker-vote-stalemate-what-matters/index.html

I am guess that the moderate Republican and moderate Democrat have more in common with each other than the moderate Republican and extreme Republican.

No reason it would not work, but like @jon said, if they agreed, then probably a primary by an extreme member

[mark]

[jon-nyc]

Lol

[89th]

@mark LOL

[mark]

[xenon]

@mark lol

[mark]

Saw this on FB.

Kevin McCarthy has been rejected almost as many times as Lauren Boebert failed the GED.

[jon-nyc]

Lol

[Jolly]

@mark said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

Saw this on FB.

Kevin McCarthy has been rejected almost as many times as Lauren Boebert failed the GED.

Boebert only took the GED once.

[jon-nyc]

We’ll see.

[Horace]

Probably had to promise to leave the Capitol doors unlocked after every Dem presidential victory.

[jon-nyc]

[Renauda]

@mark said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

That’s very good.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Renauda said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

@mark said in What will the Speaker vote look like?:

That’s very good.

You've got to wonder what she's smoking.

[89th]

Lots of cheering during the 14th vote roll call. I’d imagine that means there are key votes flipped. Gaetz might be waiting until the end for an attention-seeking final vote.

[Doctor Phibes]

If McCarthy offered to lower the age of consent, do you think he'd be a shoe in?

[89th]

Looks like they were one “present” vote short. Drama on the house floor, someone had to be held back while talking to Gaetz and ilk.

[89th]

Sucks. Someone flipped. A rep missed the birth of their child, others had funerals missed, or family members with strokes. Lots given up to attend what was supposed to be the last vote!