The Fall Of The House Of The People

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Monday I wrote about the failure of Jordan to secure enough votes to become Speaker and then he dropped out of the race.

Then 8 wannabes threw their names into to the pee pee pot.

The three-week-old GOP leadership crisis could be resolved Tuesday, though some Republicans remain doubtful. House Republicans will gather at 9am ET to vote again for speaker after denying Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan. They’ll choose between the eight candidates that remained on Monday night after Rep. Dan Meuser announced he would drop out of the race. Colleagues had predicted he would receive one of the lowest vote totals on Tuesday, per Politico. In each of multiple rounds of secret voting, the candidate with the lowest vote total will be eliminated until two candidates are left or a single candidate wins a conference majority with 113 votes, per CNN. A vote on the House floor would follow.

Then the House picked one rep to be speaker….someone that has zero name recognition…..Emmer.

Republicans have picked their nominee to become the next House speaker. Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota won on the fifth ballot Tuesday, though he has the same problem as Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise before him: It’s unclear whether he can get enough votes in the full House to win the gavel, reports Politico. Perhaps his biggest political problem among fellow Republicans is that Donald Trump does not want him to be speaker, given that Emmer voted to certify President Biden’s election victory, per the AP.

Emmer, 62, is currently the No. 3 House Republican, notes the Hill. He received 117 votes in the final ballot Tuesday, enough to beat Louisiana’s Mike Johnson (97). As with Scalise and Jordan, he will probably need to secure the votes of 217 Republicans to win. “We have the same five to seven to eight that I don’t know are going to instantly gravitate” to backing Emmer, said GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa. That would likely be enough to scuttle Emmer’s chances, unless Democrats came to his aid. It’s unclear when a full House will be scheduled. 

I told you I love this stuff.  Will this person get enough votes to become the next spineless Speaker?

Here is one last thing to think about.

Many Republicans noted their constituents were angry after weeks of disagreement. Rep. Dusty Johnson said his constituents “just can’t believe that we’re this bad.” Rep. Vern Buchanan said his constituents “think all of us are incapable.” Some suggested this would encourage lawmakers to deliver an act of unity. “I think that we can get it done,” said Sessions. “I think that the body spoke enough about the desire that we not leave here tomorrow until we have that answer.” Yet some Republicans said they wouldn’t necessarily support the conference nominee, per CNN. GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan noted that if the speaker-designee can’t get to 217 votes, Republicans would be forced to work with Democrats “to get the government open.”

The last line may insure that he does not get enough votes….especially with yet another government shutdown threat on the horizon.

But all this drama is for naught….looks like the nominee has put his tail between his legs and slivered off…

If you blinked Tuesday afternoon, you might have missed Rep. Tom Emmer’s bid to become House speaker. Emmer, the No. 3 House Republican, was picked as the party’s third nominee in three weeks Tuesday but he abruptly dropped out around four hours later when it became clear that he couldn’t win 217 votes if there was a vote of the full House, Politico reports. Sources tell the Washington Post that numerous Republican lawmakers decided Emmer, the House majority whip, had no hope of victory after Donald Trump urged people not to support him in a post on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.

Trump slammed Emmer, who voted to certify President Biden’s election victory, as a RINO—an acronym for “Republican in name only”—and accused him of being “totally out of touch” with the party’s voters. “Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!” Trump wrote. The former president’s post went up shortly after a meeting in which Emmer attempted to consolidate his support. Soon after the Minnesota lawmaker won the nomination, with 117 votes to 97 for Rep. Mike Johnson, around two dozen Republicans declared they wouldn’t support him, the New York Times reports.

The House has now been leaderless for three weeks and Republicans are back to square one after the failed bids of Emmer and Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan. Sources tell NBC News that Johnson and Rep. Kevin Hern are expected to appear on the Republican’s conference’s next secret ballot.

This what you get when politicians serve a master that is not the people.

They may have hit on a slug that Trump will approve of in his demented world…..

Here we go again: House Republicans on Tuesday night chose their fourth nominee for Speaker of the House since Kevin McCarthy was ousted. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana won the majority behind closed doors, and was later surrounded by supportive colleagues at a press conference who chanted, “Mike! Mike! Mike!” Johnson was nominated just hours after the third nominee, Rep. Tom Emmer, was nominated and then abruptly withdrew. A House floor vote will be held Wednesday, the AP reports. In what CBS News calls a “potential sign of trouble for Johnson,” McCarthy, who was not even a declared candidate for speaker, got 43 votes Tuesday night—more than Johnson’s actual opponent, Rep. Byron Donalds, who got 29.

Now you see why I love this stupidity?

Thoughts?

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