Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
acastcandream ( @acastcandream@beehaw.org ) 50•9 months agoLet me get this straight. Jordan and all them set an artificial rule that nobody’s going to go out there and be voted on unless they have the votes. Scalise decides to bow out because he cannot get the votes locked in before the actual vote. Then Jordan and them dispense with this rule they created, go to the floor, and immediately start going through what they were allegedly trying to prevent days later?
Wow.
Scooter411 ( @Scooter411@lemmy.ml ) 11•9 months agoWhy… if I didn’t know any better I would think you are accusing them of being hypocrites.
acastcandream ( @acastcandream@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months agoI mean I get why but it’s still baffling. It was a reasonable rule too! Why go through all this embarrassment? My guess is Jordan just wanted to get Scalise out and now he wants to weaponize the public process to build pressure on holdouts.
e_t_ ( @e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net ) 19•9 months agoJordan deserves at least as much embarrassment as McCarthy received during his campaign for the speakership.
ulkesh ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months agoHe deserves far more than that. Such as getting a cactus shoved up his ass once an hour every hour.
pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English2•9 months ago
jkmooney ( @jkmooney@kbin.social ) 12•9 months agoIf Jordan becomes speaker, he’ll try to use the authority to paralyze the House in a bid to get charges dropped against Trump.
stolid_agnostic ( @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml ) 4•9 months agoFortunately it’s in the hands of the executive branch and he can’t touch it.
MisterD ( @MisterD@lemmy.ca ) 6•9 months agoDo you really believe that Jim cares that it won’t work?
He’ll just say that Biden vetoed it. It’s always Biden’s fault.
- Juno ( @Juno@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months ago
“Try to blame Biden!” Has become my refrain when anyone complains about something political these days.
Tak ( @Tak@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 months agoStalling student loan repayment was in the hands of the executive branch… all it took was republicans holding the government hostage over a shutdown like the one coming up again if they don’t pass a budget resolution.
pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English5•9 months agoI feel so sorry for the Republican Party right now. Soooo sorry. They totally didn’t dig this hole for themselves. Nope. Not at all. When they hitched their wagon to a fire breathing dragon, there was simply no way to know they would get burned. They do not deserve to be in this situation.
ormr ( @runblack@reddthat.com ) 2•9 months agoWhere are the spongebob memes?