Just read that there are twenty Repbs. a definite NO on McCarthy as speaker .
What are the chances that a split vote will allow a Dem. to once again be elected Speaker which would neuter the Rs majority .
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Just read that there are twenty Repbs. a definite NO on McCarthy as speaker .
What are the chances that a split vote will allow a Dem. to once again be elected Speaker which would neuter the Rs majority .
Individual rights are protected only as long as they don't conflict with the desires of the state .
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As splintered as the rino herd is---I think anything is possible. I also think that there are a few remaining Republicans that are thinking this is the time to stand up against the rinos. The margin is tiny between the two sides.
BUT----don't sell the "silly putty" running for the gavel to not come up with some maneuver to claim the office.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Maybe they will be forced to elect a consensus speaker that a majority of congress critters on both sides can work with. Wouldn't that be a novel idea!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Blasphemy!!Originally Posted by Mike
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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Assume a can opener.
The term "consensus" is what that comment relies upon. There are too many members who would rather destroy everything rather than give an inch on anything.
Liz Cheny for speaker !!
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
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Well, that's Constitutionally possible, but have we ever had a non-member Speaker?
[on edit] No, it has never happened.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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A consensus speaker.. Like Dennis Hassard.. everything was great until we found out that he was “a diddler “.. oops..
But he was a good choice, before we “knew”..
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