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8 thoughts on “Republicans fail to coalesce around speaker choice, leaving U.S. House in limbo

    1. Remember when Republicans were the serious party about the budget and foreign policy?

      Those were the days. Now it’s a party that would be evicted from most child care providers.

    1. They would be better off to elect a Democratic speaker who would be forced to moderate their own platform in order to get anything past.

      At some point, if Republicans can’t figure out a Republican speaker, they should all just step aside and concede they’re not ready for what it takes to run in the big leagues. Maybe go back to OAN and pretend to be a serious person there. They’ve had a year, plenty of time. Go away and maybe figure it out on someone else’s time besides the taxpayers.

  1. Time for all Democratic Representatives to begin showing up in the morning at the House Chambers and demanding the Speaker Pro Tem call the House to order and vote on the Speaker. Maybe a few moderate Republicans who will lose their seats come 2024 if this continues will join in and elect Jeffries as Speaker, reinstate the old Rule that it takes more than one clown to crash the car, and the business of the nation can be handled.

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