• JCPhoenix@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Are there enough GOP House members from competitive or bluer districts that could swing this? I know the GOP has a razor thin majority, so it shouldn’t be that many who would need to vote with Democrats.

    At the same time, that kind of thing, some kind of coalition, just isn’t feasible in the US. Any Republican, no matter if the district is safe or not, who votes for Jeffries would be primaried. And the primaries show us that the extremes tend to win them. It’d be political suicide.

    We literally saw this in action on Saturday. McCarthy chose to put up a clean CR that Democrats were willing to and did support. And in return he just became the first Speaker to be removed through a Motion to Vacate.

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      I would argue what happened saturday and today, are different than working with democrats. McCarthy has flip flopped in helping Democrats and the far right. Of course he got kicked. He helped the right by offering them things in order to first secure his Speaker role, then they shot him in the foot with the debt limit, and he had to request help from democrats. He should have tried to work something out with democrats to begin with as the far right was never going to be happy with his decisions.

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        He should have tried to work something out with democrats to begin with

        He worked out a deal with Biden months ago! He had a deal in may that he blew up because he had to bend the knee to the traitor caucus, so his dumb ass got what he deserved. And we get yet another clown show from the Republicans while they vote 2 dozen times for speaker.