Or we could use this opportunity. We can influence them into not only picking the lesser of evils, but leveraging the position to actually help the people of this country.
Let’s get them to actually work with us and do some damn governing for once.
Yeah, this is picking between which cancer you want to die from, not lesser evils. All the candidates the GOP are gonna put forward are somehow gonna be worse than McCarthy. Which is fucking ridiculous.
The problem is that Republicans literally run “on the government is useless”. They don’t want to govern. They want power. They want to finish turning the government into an extension of our corporate overlords and cut any and all benefits, except corporate handouts.
This is what they want, but it’s a bad look since their voters might see exactly what they stand for. All they’ve done is hold meetings where they talk but nothing gets done. They’re using their committees to run interference for trump and poison the well for Biden like they did for decades with Hillary. Then scream deep state is holding us back. Fuck 'em. They have the majority, figure it out.
Meh, they shouldn’t gerrymander the fuck out of districts allowing the craziest candidates to primary the ones that actually now compromise is part of governing.
Of course there is, as long as you are the one paralyzing the government. Suddenly you have incredible amounts of leverage, especially if your voters are fine with you keeping everything paralyzed.
I’d want everything in writing before agreeing to anything. Even then, I’d fear that Republicans would go back on their word the second we passed this crisis.
Are there any purple Republicans in the House? Are there any that aren’t toe-ing the line and gargling MAGA Balls? Any that just want to do their job and being a moderate Speaker may look good to their moderate district?
Every single NY Republican on Long Island is liable to flip without working across the aisle. The democrats drew a map that did not fly and the judge put a long time republican in charge of redrawing the map which let people like Santos win. It’s been ordered back to the committee to redraw again, and New York will lose R seats unless they show that they’re pretty far in the centrist direction.
Or we could use this opportunity. We can influence them into not only picking the lesser of evils, but leveraging the position to actually help the people of this country.
Let’s get them to actually work with us and do some damn governing for once.
That requires that all parties act in good faith, which the GOP has not done for decades.
Yeah, this is picking between which cancer you want to die from, not lesser evils. All the candidates the GOP are gonna put forward are somehow gonna be worse than McCarthy. Which is fucking ridiculous.
Vote brain eating amoeba for speaker.
You should watch BrainDead. You’ll never listen to You Might Think by The Cars the same ever again…
Just a thought, but maybe something like this
GOP and Dems agree to a list of concessions
GOP nominates Jeffries (or just have a few GOP congressmen be conveniently absent).
Concessions get passed.
Jeffries steps down.
Democrats nominate previously agreed on GOP speaker.
Republicans don’t hold up their end of the bargain, Jeffries just stays as speaker.
Dems don’t hold up their end of the bargain, GOP still has the majority so they can hold up any legislation.
The problem is that Republicans literally run “on the government is useless”. They don’t want to govern. They want power. They want to finish turning the government into an extension of our corporate overlords and cut any and all benefits, except corporate handouts.
This is what they want, but it’s a bad look since their voters might see exactly what they stand for. All they’ve done is hold meetings where they talk but nothing gets done. They’re using their committees to run interference for trump and poison the well for Biden like they did for decades with Hillary. Then scream deep state is holding us back. Fuck 'em. They have the majority, figure it out.
The thing is, there’s no power in being part of a paralyzed government.
Meh, they shouldn’t gerrymander the fuck out of districts allowing the craziest candidates to primary the ones that actually now compromise is part of governing.
Of course there is, as long as you are the one paralyzing the government. Suddenly you have incredible amounts of leverage, especially if your voters are fine with you keeping everything paralyzed.
You’re missing what I’m trying to say, though. If they want help (as this article is claiming), then we should leverage that.
I upvoted this comment but how would it be possible to hold the Republicans to an agreement? They already didn’t respect the agreement with Biden.
The problem is they will pretend they never did it anyway. The entire impetus for removing the last guy was he worked with Democrats lol
I’d want everything in writing before agreeing to anything. Even then, I’d fear that Republicans would go back on their word the second we passed this crisis.
Are there any purple Republicans in the House? Are there any that aren’t toe-ing the line and gargling MAGA Balls? Any that just want to do their job and being a moderate Speaker may look good to their moderate district?
No such thing
Every single NY Republican on Long Island is liable to flip without working across the aisle. The democrats drew a map that did not fly and the judge put a long time republican in charge of redrawing the map which let people like Santos win. It’s been ordered back to the committee to redraw again, and New York will lose R seats unless they show that they’re pretty far in the centrist direction.