Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
They’re also dialing up the rhetoric against the GOP’s new nominee for speaker, prominent Donald Trump ally Jim Jordan of Ohio, blasting him as an insurrectionist, election denier and extremist.
“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by dozen of Democratic lawmakers. “His focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and driving division amongst the American people.”
He is an insurrectionist. See his political positions on wikipedia here. It’s a well-sourced article. He also opposes
- The ACA
- Research on disinformation
- The Environment, in general
- Abortion, to the point where he said that the 10-year-old girl who got raped and needed to travel to Indiana to get an abortion was lying about it until the police arrested the guy and he confessed.
- Regulating big tech
- Taxes, Spending, pretty broadly
- Same-sex marriage
He’s an extremist. They do not have the political power to elect an extremist from their ranks. They need a moderate.
Don’t forget his sexual assault coverup
I’ll put it on the list after 9/11 and the Alamo
What does this even mean?
Why do the Dems have to “help” the GOP? I say the GOP isn’t helping the Dems! All it would take is a handful of Rs to vote with the Dems to make Jeffries the speaker.
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“People can talk a big game about that. I haven’t personally heard anybody talk about that; it’s only hearsay,” he said. “But I think that’s pretty nuclear. Let’s keep this conventional.”
This quote by a Republican Congressman explains absolutely everything that is wrong about the GOP. The idea of talking to Democrats to see what compromise could take place is considered a “nuclear” option. Keep in mind that had 5 districts gone the other way nationwide, Republicans would be in the minority. But they’re talking as if they have an ironclad majority that demands they never compromise on anything.
This party deserves to die.
Asked what Jordan can do to change minds, Armstrong said: “Talk to people, listen to people. He’s really good at it…”
So…
The second-largest voting bloc (moderate Republicans) is angry at the first-largest voting bloc (Democrats) for voting for their preferred candidate, cuz they think they’re entitled to the votes of the third-largest voting bloc (MAGA Republicans).
Makes sense.
Edit: Not sure why I got down-dooted to oblivion right off the bat. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Fuck you mean “trashing”?
Clickbait. Common in journalism nowadays.
Defending bigotry with soft language, common in journalism nowadays.
Who is defending bigotry?
Not you, the headline trends
What bigotry are you talking about?
At the risk of sounding like a hopeless optimist… Wouldn’t it make sense for the Republicans to nominate more of a centrist with promises to work on common ground with the Democrats (whatever narrow terrain that may consist of now) and thereby sideline the MAGA crew to irrelevancy?
Yeah they would take a lot of heat from Trump & co., but maybe they could actually pass something for their constituents.
On the one hand, yes, but the Republicans made it so any one person can call for a vote to oust the speaker, so it only takes one unhappy rep to restart the cycle.
So I think the current plan is to just sit back and let the American people see that the current batch of Republican reps has as much ability to work together as a bag of weasels until the Republicans are willing to actually admit that they fucked up and ask for help fixing it.
So this could take a year to resolve.
But wouldn’t a moderate speaker supported by the majority from both parties easily survive a vote like that?
Their “moderates” were the anti-Trumpers.
They got primaried and voted out.
I’m sure we will find out. It sounds good in theory, but I’m not sure how many true moderates may be left. We seem to be in a “compromise is weakness stage”
Even if Dems wanted to help sincerely, why would they aid a party whose platform is to harass the shit out of everyone else. Nevermind the fact that the staffers are probably still dealing with the fear from Jan 6 in therapy; helping get Jim Jordan up of all people is voting for a dude who indirectly tried to kill you. The idea of even asking for that is so weird to me.
House Minority Leader needs to nominate an r they can work with. That will turn up the heat.
LETS GOOOO
