Speaker of the House is Vacated - What Next?

[UsualName]

This is the right way to look at it if you’re a republican:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1714687558142042365

 

[Mercor]

This is the right way to look at it if you’re a republican:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1714687558142042365

Yes, and 208 Democrats joined 8 Republicans to vote out McCarthy to start this mess

 

[UsualName]

Yes, and 208 Democrats joined 8 Republicans to vote out McCarthy to start this mess

Facts. You having fun yet?

 

[gwb-trading]

This is the right way to look at it if you’re a republican:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1714687558142042365

So he got more of the House popular vote then any other candidate and still lost. What a system.

 

[gwb-trading]

 

[Tony Stark]

. There were a couple of years with no annual deficit and the question was with no debt to sell would the Bond market need to exist.
9/11 ended that

Yes, and 208 Democrats joined 8 Republicans to vote out McCarthy to start this mess

Y'all do have a special way of looking at things.

 

[gwb-trading]

House Republicans say that Jordan will lose as many as 15 more votes if he takes this to a third round.

Jordan detractors believe it gets 'a lot worse' for him on a third speakership ballot
"A round three is probably going to be the final straw," said Rep. Steve Womack, who has opposed Jordan through two ballots.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/18/congress/jordans-third-ballot-troubles-00122278

 

[vanzandt]

Newt - bless his little heart- has good perspective but in the end- and this is not necessarily a fault- he still functions like speaker by trying to rally votes when he speaks, versus predicting.

Believe me he thinks it could go to a "make the speaker pro temp speaker for a temporary period" scenario and he has said that he supports that even though he does not want it to happen. But he would not be supporting that fallback position (which he is) unless he thought they might end out there.

(Said with the caveat I mentioned before which is that I have sort of tuned out the issue for the last couple days, but that is what the general atmospherics look like to me.)

So right now it looks to me like the only option is to expand the Speaker pro-tem's powers, but that takes 217 votes too. Would McHenry pass or would the handful of Reps that hate everything vote him down?

Is there any chance they could do a first time ever thing, and bring in someone not in the House they could all agree on? No one comes to mind...
How about Pence? (he's gonna drop out of the race soon I think). Or Pompeo?
Maybe we'll see a first.

 

[newwurldmn]

So right now it looks to me like the only option is to expand the Speaker pro-tem's powers, but that takes 217 votes too. Would McHenry pass or would the handful of Reps that hate everything vote him down?

Is there any chance they could do a first time ever thing, and bring in someone not in the House they could all agree on? No one comes to mind...
How about Pence? (he's gonna drop out of the race soon I think). Or Pompeo?
Maybe we'll see a first.

They should elect a democrat. The MAGA crowd will really stick it to the rest of the Rino's by doing that!

 

[exGOPer]

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), who voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker yesterday, then against him today, said in a statement that she has received “credible death threats.”