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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsROFLMAO! We are in the minority in the House
And Rep. Jeffries gets more votes than jordan.
You can't make this shit up!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)malaise
(295,377 posts)Good to see you man 😀
William769
(59,147 posts)bdamomma
(69,503 posts)and Jeffries got GQP votes too???? this is not official yet is it???? I don't want to turn on TV just yet.
iluvtennis
(21,492 posts)https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-race-vote-10-17-23/index.html

bdamomma
(69,503 posts)it would be a first. Just a false assumption on my part.
iluvtennis
(21,492 posts)groundloop
(13,768 posts)The shitshow would continue, nothing would be accomplished, and he'd be blamed. I have to believe that the GQP would be even more eager to reck the government in order to point their slimy fingers at him.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,287 posts)The best solution is to find a GQP member who will keep the government limping along until 2025. As the old saw says, "First, do no harm." As long as Jordan is kept away from where he can do real damage we'll make it to the next election.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)I'd rather nothing happen than them making things worse.
Maraya1969
(23,489 posts)Jefferies? Remember Jordan helped plan the insurrection. If that is proved he can be kicked right the hell out can't he?
InstantGratification
(428 posts)After observing the Repub shitshow since they took over the House, you think any of them would vote to remove their own for ANY reason, including proven criminal actions? I don't.
Maraya1969
(23,489 posts)Did I say that???????
I have been really bad lately. I'm thinking like a republican. I know that is what they would do.
calimary
(89,816 posts)Helps give us an advantage.
Might mean being able to imagine what theyre aiming for, and counter-strategize accordingly.
calimary
(89,816 posts)has said all the holdouts were Republicans.
Blue Owl
(58,909 posts)William769
(59,147 posts)calimary
(89,816 posts)Live on TV. As it happens. By vote in the House of Reps. One-by-one. Slow torture. Trudging toward failure. A slow slog toward resounding rejection. Live on camera. Broadcast nationally. 20 votes short yesterday when the early chit-chat anticipated a single-digit failure (they have a low-single-digit majority). Just think: assuming a 4-vote majority as Ive heard it described, the votes Jordan lost were FIVE TIMES THAT MANY. For starters.
OUCH.
Couldnt happen to a nicer guy
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)He will be their speaker, sadly.
William769
(59,147 posts)William769
(59,147 posts)WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Jim Jordan told his fellow Republicans he will suspend his bid to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and back Republican Patrick McHenry to fill the role on a temporary basis, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
The House has been without a leader for more than two weeks, and Jordan has twice failed to secure the 217 votes needed to claim the speaker's gavel as he has faced opposition from Democrats and more than 20 of his fellow Republicans.
Asked what he expected as he enterer a closed-door meeting with other Republicans, Jordan said only, "I'm not gonna know until I talk to my colleagues."
In that meeting, Jordan said he would not seek a third vote to win the post and instead will back a plan to empower McHenry to hold the post until January, according to Republican Representative Jim Banks.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jordan-suspends-bid-for-us-house-speaker-backs-mchenry-lawmaker/ar-AA1iwcEs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ENTPHB&cvid=d7cff39e91534435b3fe6e48f36e38a0&ei=7
erronis
(23,615 posts)And no matter how organized, intelligent, cohesive they were and are, the M$M loves to parrot it. Maybe it's in some autotype macro on their keyboard.
I'd love to have the major media outlets do an honest retrospective on how well they've covered news in the last year, last 5 or 10 years. Subject to independent review. Won't happen and they'll continue to lie in any case.
PatrickforB
(15,415 posts)ONLY fiduciary responsibility is to generate shareholder PROFITS. They aren't responsible for truth, though.
soldierant
(9,316 posts)And it's not as bad as Republicans iin Rupture.
calimary
(89,816 posts)Both the reality and the perception of reality.
IronLionZion
(51,128 posts)TheRickles
(3,328 posts)Maraya1969
(23,489 posts)
?im=Resize=(600,600)TheRickles
(3,328 posts)calimary
(89,816 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Emile
(41,975 posts)murielm99
(32,940 posts)Nice to see you, William.
William769
(59,147 posts)bobby202
(91 posts)GOP = the world think's we are a joke , conservative my butt !! The national debt is on them that caters to drumph !
Emile
(41,975 posts)
sheshe2
(97,212 posts)calimary
(89,816 posts)PatrickforB
(15,415 posts)who was deeply involved in Jan 6, and gosh knows what else. It is funny though that Jeffries got more votes.
EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)it wouldn't be the end of their world. Five more votes and he would have won. Sigh...
We can't have Jordan third in line. They had 20 wasted votes. Jordan can't win, so who's next?
sheshe2
(97,212 posts)How humiliating for Gym Shorts.

ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)and was a child actor in Star Trek's first season in the 60s.
sheshe2
(97,212 posts)onetexan
(13,913 posts)GOP Rep. Dismisses Pro-Jordan Strategy
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said that Jordan's efforts to put pressure on his colleagues to vote for him for speaker to bully them, if you will haven't worked out so well.
"I think some of the pressure campaigns have backfired," Donalds said on Fox News. "They have not worked."
Some Republicans have bristled at Jordan's hardball tactics, which have included using his relationship with Fox News Sean Hannity and his associates to pressure holdout GOP members to line up behind Jordan. At least one Republican lawmaker heard directly from Hannity; another claimed he or she was threatened with a primary challenger.
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We all know thuggery doesn't work
Warpy
(114,555 posts)Yeah, right, assholes.
I really, really have high hopes this is foreshadowing their national convention next year. Been waiting for those assholes to self destruct all my life.
Crowman2009
(3,501 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,655 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)... Hakeem Jeffries has gotten more votes in more rounds for Speaker than any other candidate in history without actually being elected Speaker.
Captain Zero
(8,868 posts)nt