A reminder that having no Speaker means the House of Representatives can't conduct any business, and a reminder that THAT'S WHAT THE REPUBLICAN EXTREMISTS WANT.
To them it's a feature, not a bug.
The "Crazy Eight" and other House Republicans are so off their rockers that they want to destroy our government.
Unfortunately, we have to sit through the drama of this playing out to the point where a few reasonable Republicans see no other choice but to align with Democrats in some way.
This reminds me of grade school and it's just so embarrassing.🤦🏻♀️
@petergleick Taking Reagan's 1981 inaugural address to its logical conclusion: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
@petergleick They are aiming at a shutdown. If they had managed to cause one the first time they would have kicked McCarthy out anyway simply to burn the bridge behind them
@stehgeiger@petergleick the story begins when the tea party split the conservatives and now both big parties cannot have a majority without either cooperating over part borders which is rare or co-operate with the fascists.
@RebelGeek99@stehgeiger@petergleick the Reps could have reached out to Dems but they did not. As they aligned themselves with Fascists. They could have suggested a bipartisan speaker after the last election. However, they opted to sabotage Biden was more important then to deliver a working parliament.
@ReallyBlue2@petergleick I am biased in that topic, but we had the same playbook in history. German fascist did the same thing creating a dysfunctional parliament and conservatives lend them a hand and thought they could control them.
So I a sense this gives me heavy deja vu vibes.
@petergleick exactly. Fascists want to sabotage democratic institutions. They did the same in Germany in the past. The goal is to show that democracy does not work and that a strong man is needed to fix it. They already ruined the supreme court and now it's the house of representatives. Unfortunately, there is no constructive vote for no confidence. This would have prevented that republicans could remove the speaker without voting a new one into office.
@prefec2@petergleick I suggest that - for the sake of the nation and US democracy - few moderate Republicans should vote with Democrats to find a new Speaker.
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