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This was fun, yesterday, but today it's just boring. Republicans are pathetic. Actually thinking Donald Trump would provide some guidance. Republicans should have never been allowed to take the house in that last election. Those few voters really did the country a mis service. The same nutjobs that gave us Trump have now given us this.
 
dawp

dawp

Lifer
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what I want to know is how many days will they stretch this out? another week or longer?
 
SteveGrabowski

SteveGrabowski

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sportage said:
This was fun, yesterday, but today it's just boring. Republicans are pathetic. Actually thinking Donald Trump would provide some guidance. Republicans should have never been allowed to take the house in that last election. Those few voters really did the country a mis service. The same nutjobs that gave us Trump have now given us this.
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I think it's still fun. Way more fun than anything a McCarthy led house would be doing for sure.
 
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JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
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dawp said:
what I want to know is how many days will they stretch this out? another week or longer?
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the last time this happened was exactly 100yrs ago.
it went though 9 rounds.
if 3 rounds per day, then day 4 at a minimum.

Senate is adjourned till Jan 23.
so we can have ~60 rounds since nothing is being passed legislatively till then.
 
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JEDI said:
the last time this happened was exactly 100yrs ago.
it went though 9 rounds.
if 3 rounds per day, then day 4 at a minimum.

Senate is adjourned till Jan 23.
so we can have ~60 rounds since nothing is being passed legislatively till then.
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Umm, absolutely nothing is being passed legislatively after then either... (passing requires both House and Senate, we should take bets on exactly how many bills pass this year... 1? or 2 to be optimistic...)
 
Pens1566

Pens1566

Lifer
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Dave_5k said:
Umm, absolutely nothing is being passed legislatively after then either... (passing requires both House and Senate, we should take bets on exactly how many bills pass this year... 1? or 2 to be optimistic...)
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Eh, I don't even think we'll get the debt ceiling raise passed TBH.

Although, it could if we get some kind of moderate/compromise Speaker ...
 
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eelw

Lifer
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These never spineless ones need to just not vote if they want to make a point.
 
JEDI

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Lifer
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Repubs:
The grotesque humiliations @GOPLeader is willing to endure is just a continuation of the public degradations the so-called leaders of the Republican Party embraced for power.

No sense of dignity, no value they wouldn’t abandon, no fight they wouldn’t run from. They deserve it all
 
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Lifer
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sportage said:
This was fun, yesterday, but today it's just boring. Republicans are pathetic. Actually thinking Donald Trump would provide some guidance. Republicans should have never been allowed to take the house in that last election. Those few voters really did the country a mis service. The same nutjobs that gave us Trump have now given us this.
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Well at least Trump has figured out that Abortion being banned with no exceptions is a LOSER and they'll keep losing as the ones passionate about the issue, who've voted for that stance for 5 decades are AGING OUT and being replaced by Gen Z.

How long it takes the Traitors called Republicans to figure it out is anyone's guess.. my money is on maybe in 2 decades.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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JEDI said:
the last time this happened was exactly 100yrs ago.
it went though 9 rounds.
if 3 rounds per day, then day 4 at a minimum.

Senate is adjourned till Jan 23.
so we can have ~60 rounds since nothing is being passed legislatively till then.
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In 1855 it went a few more rounds.
history.house.gov

The Longest and Most Contentious Speaker Election in House History | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

At the conclusion of the longest and most contentious Speaker election in House history, the House elected Representative Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts as its presiding officer for the 34th Congress (1855–1857). Sectional conflict over slavery and a rising anti-immigrant mood in the nation...
history.house.gov history.house.gov

After two months and 133 ballots, the House finally chose Representative Banks by a vote of 103 to 100 over Representative William Aiken of South Carolina.
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eelw

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manly said:
This describes at least 75% of the House GOP conference. :p #3 in leadership Elise Stefanik went from a (private) Trump basher to a Trump sycophant.

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At least she has a pair of balls. The spineless one is in the camp of Pence and their balls being held by “mother”
 
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sportage said:
This was fun, yesterday, but today it's just boring. Republicans are pathetic. Actually thinking Donald Trump would provide some guidance. Republicans should have never been allowed to take the house in that last election. Those few voters really did the country a mis service. The same nutjobs that gave us Trump have now given us this.
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Every day of this is one day less of Hunter Biden's Laptop or Fauci Genocide hearings.
 
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JEDI said:
No Repub with a brain you mean.
Dems seem to run better ship when they had majority, especially since Pelosi only had +5 lead vs McCarthy's +9 lead.

Look at what happened to the last 2 Repub Speakers of the House (Bohemer and Ryan):
The Repub wackos wing ran them out of the office (and politics) only after 2yrs :eek:
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This is what no compromise nonsense looks like. Come on. It's 7:00pm already, he gave you a glass of milk, eat your peas.
 
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Lifer
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SteveGrabowski said:
If the GOP can't pick someone there should be no compromises. Jeffries gets to control the house under the Democrats rules.
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Yep, Democrats have no incentive to help Republicans out of their mess. Best to let Republicans flap in the wind generated by their own ineptitude.

If some "moderate" republicans (moderate in quotes because let's face it - there are no true moderate Republicans any more) want to cross the aisle and give Democrats some substantial concessions in order for a speaker to be installed, then the offer could potentially be considered.
 
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Brainonska511 said:
Yep, Democrats have no incentive to help Republicans out of their mess. Best to let Republicans flap in the wind generated by their own ineptitude.

If some "moderate" republicans (moderate in quotes because let's face it - there are no true moderate Republicans any more) want to cross the aisle and give Democrats some substantial concessions in order for a speaker to be installed, then the offer could potentially be considered.
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The problem is that one can't cut a deal with Republicans because they can't be trusted to keep it.
 
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JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
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dawp said:
seems negotiations have started

thehill.com

Centrist Republican says ‘preliminary talks’ with Democrats underway on Speaker deal

Editor’s note: Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said some Republicans had begun “preliminary” discussions with Democrats about a deal to support a consensus candidate. A previous version o…
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Interesting.. But even if hakeem Jefferies is Speaker, Dems wont have enough members to maintain majority in some committees.

So they should bargain with those Repubs willing to cross the aisle with Committee chairs since those committees will be majority Repubs anyway.

Repubs: It's all about power
self interest > party > country

Let's see who wants to shave off years of hard political work and be committee chair now :p
 
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