The House Speakership Debacle

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Now there is more. The the Freedumb Scumbags in the House are pissed, but they are not about to kick MAGA Mike out, not yet anyway. So they are going to shut down the house by tanking procedural votes. That should lead to two, not just one shut down threat come January.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/1...crats-00127083

From the same article:

"If those divisions worsen — like if conservatives make good on their threat to start blocking bills from coming to the floor — some centrist Republicans pointed out that would just increase their incentive to join forces with Democrats. Republicans openly shifting to that strategy would amount to a historic shift in House power dynamics.

"It just forces us to work with Democrats — these guys play checkers, they don’t play chess,” said centrist Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.)."

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