Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches from the congressmen seeking the job, though none has a clear shot at the gavel. Eight candidates are in the running for one speaker after one dropped out. Behind closed doors, they made their elevator pitches to colleagues ahead of internal party voting.
Senior-most among the hopefuls is Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, but neither he or the other lower-level Republican lawmakers are expected to quickly secure a majority. Instead he and others are reaching out to Donald Trump for backing ahead of elections to choose a nominee. One, Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, dropped out.
“They all called asking for support,” said Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, who was in New Hampshire registering for the state’s primary ballot.
Ah yes, I definitely had "Republican party needs to call Trump to help decide who needs to be the leader of their constituency so they can govern" on my 2023 bingo card.
Man, this is just a never-ending disaster for the conservate wing, but they totally deserve it for pointing at the far-left Congresspeople and saying how not united the Democrats are.
In a more reasonable government this would be at least a 4 party system, but no chance ever of that with FPTP.
We would just be happy these boot lickers found such an inept boot to lick. There's no policy proposals or points of leadership they can emulate to gain trump support because he's devoid of policy or leadership.
Tom Emmer was my congressman for many years. He only wins because the district is gerrymandered. He is a regressive fuckwad who is a Trump Sycophant. Plz dear God do not let him become Speaker.
Here is the level of clusterfuck in the House right now …
“Is there anybody that can get there? I don’t think there is,” said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, who has repeatedly suggested Trump should be elected House speaker.
I mean can you imagine the orange kumquat as House speaker?
I believe the plan is to simply never elect a speaker, and all of the GOP have agreed to it. Continue the spectacle indefinitely to prove their longtime claim that government doesn't work. Putin loves his R clowns.
And blame it on the democrats.
And blame it on the democrats.
As is tradition.
That…makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I do see the overarching point you're trying to make but your suggestion is not how this will play out.
I hope it resolves. Ukraine's survival and democracy around the globe depends upon a resolution.
I hear ya, the democracy part might be a lil hyperbolic but even if we get to the funding deadline next month, there will be plenty of ripples felt. I do think they will eventually settle on Donalds (the rep, not orange Donald) or someone close to the freedom caucus but whoever they settle on will have the same issues as McCarthy.
Donalds is pro-trump/putin/insurrection. I'm not being hyperbolic about democracy hanging in the balance.
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The conversation should be shifting (in the media) to which Democrat the Republicans should be supporting.
And how far the candidates can distance themselves from Trump, not sucking up to the blood criminal.
I think the Democrats decided on Hakeem Jeffries a while back, and Republicans aren't gonna talk about it openly.
I'm (hilariously) holding out hope "moderate" Republicans jump ship and form a third (anti Trump, centrist-conservative) party. That then creates a coalition with the Dems. Saving our democracy, dooming Trumpkins, and putting moderate liberals in charge of the House.
. . . that's when I always wake up.
And it's finally revealed that all of the Trump stuff has just been a huge guerilla marketing campaign for a new Home Alone movie reboot releasing this Christmas, co-starring President Joe Biden and Macaulay Culkin.
I don't see it happening either. It's striking just how many unprincipled cowards there are in the political center or center-right. Just gutless yes-men, with a smattering of yes-women who would much rather see the country burn than get called out by Trump.
Well, they'd better hurry up and figure out what they're doing because they don't have much longer until the government loses funding. Something makes me think that this time around even the essential employees will be walking out if the government shuts down.
all Republicans should be fired immediately
lower-level names seek Trump's support
They're unclear on the concept.
What I find really great is that with the modern election cycle, we have already had debates for president.
This just showcases how much of a worthless cluster fuck one half of The Party has become at producing a leader.
Moscow Mitch the Russian Cock Sucking Bitch is all up in arms about being politely asked about his health, still strangleholds his side of The Party, but still hasn't thrown his hat in the ring to run for President.
On the other side, where are the debates for the other half of The Party?
Poli-Sci majors might want to roll in with their spineless rhetoric right here, but why wouldn't a strong encumbent President relish the opportunity to defend his seat in high spirited and federal level publicized exercises in discourse?
No. At the advanced age of 250, America is just a sesspool of half assed high school model UN asshats who can look just pretty enough to get elected to middle of the road bribe recipient seats with not a single soul who knows how or cares about running a government or leading a nation.
We have Trump neck deep in litigation, Biden funding genocide, and a few hundred Instagram influencers assraping Lady Liberty and telling the American people to suck their tiny stinky chodes.
America has failed.
Pack it in guys, America has failed 😩
About.
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The issue is more the upcoming budget that needs to be passed, since Republicans only allowed for the funding bill to be delayed for 45 days.
Without a speaker by then, I don't think the bill can even get to the floor.
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And I'm sure you're cool with the states increasing your tax rates to pay the 6,000,000 civilian federal employees their contracted and salaried jobs? And all the humanitarian and research grants that the federal budget uses to employ hundreds of thousands of others while investing in our future?
Nah, you're just here to suck off Ayn Rand and spout Charlie Kirk talking points you think make you sound edgy and wise, while contributing nothing of value to the conversation.
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Sure, we'll just have 6 million people become unemployed overnight, causing an instant recession. Brilliant.
Oh, and red states suck down a ton more federal aid than they contribute.
How is simply working a government job "sucking off the taxpayer tit?" Do you suck off your company's CEO's tit?
No but see it's different when you aren't helping the stockholders increase their value, because reasons!
let the states pick up the slack
I'm sure DeSantis, Abbot and their ilk would love to have that extra power to fuck people over.
There's still that pesky military to worry about.
Getting promotions passed has been an issue all year but it'll get worse after Dec 31st because many of them pledged to hold their positions to the end of the year.
As a non-US citizen I'm waiting for updates on the whole UFO issue. I'm not sure but I believe this stalemate would effectively prevent that.
There are no aliens discovered on Earth, there you go, now you don't need to wait around for an update.
This doesn't fully address my comment which mentioned UFOs not aliens. It seems completely credible to me that UFOs do currently exist and there's no definitive answer as to what they are.
there's no definitive answer as to what they are.
…yeah, that's what the "unidentified" in "unidentified flying object" means.
Are there things flying around that we currently don't know what they are? Certainly.
Are those things controlled by extraterrestrial intelligences? Almost certainly not.
I thought I would spell out the obvious because apparently people (including you) take me being interested in what these unidentified objects actually are, and conflating that with "oh this guy believes in aliens". I never once said that I want them to reveal aliens! In fact I have already pointed out that I didn't even mention aliens. All I said was I want them to get to the bottom of it and it seems at a glance that the house not having a speaker would at the very least delay investigations into it.
Nobody asked my opinion on the matter, they just downvote and make comments assuming my opinions on things which is pretty frustrating but also not unexpected.
Look, the problem is that it's so fucking irrelevant. It's not gonna be anything important. Weather phenomenon, bird, who cares. But to say that that is what's most important to you about the US government shutting down is just so far removed from reality. This is people's actual lives that are at stake. So don't then bring up something that is so ridiculously unimportant. I promise you, there isn't some grand conspiracy that's gonna be uncovered by some UFO hearings.
There's really no point engaging with you unless you want to engage with the what I'm actually saying. I'm happy to have a discussion but you're devolving it into a shouting match. I never once said it's what is most important to me, which is besides the point because I can bring up any issue that I care about and I won't accept anyone telling me that I have no right to bring it up.
