For those of us who questioned how any Republican could get 217 votes to be Speaker, the mystery is solved.
First, you would need limited experience. Then, you would need to be a prominent election denier so that Trump wouldn’t get members to oppose you (see Tom Emmer and Steve Scalise). Additionally, you would need to be a vocal MAGA advocate. Oh, and let’s not forget that you would need to not be hated.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you would need to move forward when almost anyone would do.
Speaker Mike Johnson is less hated than Jim Jordan (a low bar) and, frankly, a Trump acolyte who didn’t do much of anything to get into conflict with his fellow Republicans.
Not exactly Sam Rayburn or Nicholas Longworth kind of stuff, but then I am betting they won’t name a building after him (they probably won’t name one for Kevin McCarthy either). I guess we have to be grateful for small favors these days.
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I’m sorry, but i think this is a disingenuous posting. Here’s why….everyone knows how tight the Republican margin is in the House….which gave ridiculous power to a handful of extremist nutbag Republicans….who absolutely refused to back a moderate Republican candidate.
All that was needed was 10 Dems whose loyalty was more to the Constitution than to the Democratic party to let it be known that they would vote for a moderate Repub for Speaker of the House….and the power of those nutbag Repubs would have evaporated….been broken.
But nobody came forward with this solution, and the nutbag Repubs got their extremist Speaker.
Just one perspective from an old friend and moderate Republican.
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I think you should look to the decisi
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