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

[George K]

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

The stalemate, now in its second week, has thrown the House into chaos, grinding all other business to a halt.

It’s a national embarrassment.

Once this is resolved, I would expect the House to implement a mechanism whereby this is prevented.

Perhaps giving the Speaker Pro Tem authorities that the Speaker has for a limited time.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-adjourns-disarray-support-jordan-looks-weaker-than-expected

Jordan won 124 votes against his rival in the race, Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., who won 81.

After the first ballot, Jordan called for a second round in which lawmakers were asked whether they will support Jordan on the House floor.

He managed to win 152 votes on that round, but 55 Republicans still said they would vote against him. A GOP candidate for speaker would need to reach 217 votes to win a House-wide vote with no Democratic support.

[Rainman]

A google response to my question stated there were 59 members in the House originally (59 - 65). Of course they didn't have Smart Phones so it all equals out. That's sarcasm, AX. Don't fret that I'm increasing in idiocityness.

[Jolly]

There is some talk about bringing Dems in for a bipartisan vote.

[jon-nyc]

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

[taiwan_girl]

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.

[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.