Bipartisan discussions about how to end the two-week speaker vacancy are growing in seriousness as Republicans’ chaotic efforts to elect a permanent speaker struggle to gain traction.
Bipartisan discussions about how to end the two-week speaker vacancy are growing in seriousness as Republicans’ chaotic efforts to elect a permanent speaker struggle to gain traction.
Man, if this were a secret ballot it’d be ugly as hell for ol’ Gym Shorts.
That said, I still think it’ll be pretty ugly. I foresee serious defections.
Don’t forget Reagan’s 11tg commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” Republicans don’t typically have as much internecine (i.e. intragroup) conflict - typically - this fiasco is an outlier. It’s a little more common for Democrats to fall all over themselves. Sometimes that’s good, Democrats calling for menendez to step down, and sometimes not, calling for franken to step down (my opinion).