So if you don't back Jim Jordan he'll have his people threaten your family and make death threats against you. This guy is definitely Speaker of the House material... 🙄 Obviously there's no one in the Republican party with more integrity than Jim Jordan unless Matt Gaetz or MTG want to run.
A self-serving #coward who turned his back on sexually #abused#wrestling students at #Ohio State University is, according to #Republicans, the best man to be 3rd in line to the Presidency, and lead the #House of Representatives. Republicans are completely lacking in #moral fiber, and care only about their own #power. The best interests of the #American people aren't even in their top 5 list of priorities.
Hardball tactics by Jim Jordan allies are backfiring with detractors in House speaker’s race
Jordan's supporters have made some GOP lawmakers more entrenched in their opposition to his bid for the speaker's gavel. "They're harassing our spouses," says Rep. Don Bacon. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA
@Free_Press It's amazing that #JimJordan's crowd has to learn the hard way that being a**holes makes people dislike you. They have no idea how human minds work. That would seem to be disqualifying for a job like #SpeakerOfTheHouse
(1) Use an anonymous, ranked ballot (like Canada).
(2) Make the speaker non-partisan, and a manager of process (like Canada).
(3) And place political powers into the leaders of the two conferences.
(4) Bring back research group funding. Make it so that caucuses within the conferences are more formalized.
It'd be a shift.
And, I'd argue, be healthier way to manage House affairs.
Jim Jordan got two fewer votes than he did yesterday, house is currently in recess. I believe this means his bid for Speaker is dead. With no GOP alternative readily evident, looks like either the current pro tem Speaker or a coalition Speaker are now the leading candidates.
Watching the vote tally on the second vote for Speaker of the House and I am honestly surprised Rep Jim Jordan (R) didn't sway any of the 20 #republican votes from yesterday's vote to his side.
I mean dayumm!
He actually had THREE more defectors from yesterday and one of them voted for #HakeemJeffries (D)
EDIT: Correction. The clerk must have miscounted when I hit publish. There was not a 213th vote for Jeffries.
The current U.S. Congress is a fucking joke, well our whole government is. Why does everything have to be curtailed to one group of people, extreme left or extreme right? Why is crossing the aisle to govern with the other party heresy, seeing you burned at the stake by your own party? There's no good reason.
I'd like to start a new party, "For the People" to support issues for the common good of everyone and not just one group.
Why isn't Hakeem Jeffries, with the majority of the votes, not the Speaker of the House?
Why does the vote for the Speaker of the House require a numerical majority?
I looked at at Article 1 of the Constitution and it's doesn't require a numerical majority. "The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker and other Officers" is all it says.
I also looked at the 14th Amendment and see nothing.
Does anyone know why it requires a numerical majority?
Maybe the Democrats simply declare that Jeffries has won the majority and it's over.
I enjoy most heartily watching #GymJordan twist in the wind like the worthless putz dumbass that he is. Well, he's also scumbag that ignored child rape, but that's considered a plus to the modern GOP.
Mr. Jordan, the combative ally of former President Donald J. Trump, fell 17 votes short of the majority he would have needed to prevail, despite a right-wing pressure campaign to win over Republican critics.
Jim Jordan has never passed a single bill in Congress.
Not one.
He's been in congress 17 years.
(For context: I had a rookie Congressperson several years ago, and in her first 2 years she had passed at least 3 major pieces of legislation, some of it was written directly by her.
And she was a Dem during the trump admin. She got redistricted to another area, but I still support her ..Lauren Underwood)
Jordan Won’t Force Third Vote and Endorses Empowering Temporary Speaker (www.nytimes.com)
The hard-line Republican from Ohio has run headlong into opposition from a bloc of mainstream G.O.P. holdouts.
Jim Jordan Loses First Vote to Become Speaker (www.nytimes.com)
Mr. Jordan, the combative ally of former President Donald J. Trump, fell 17 votes short of the majority he would have needed to prevail, despite a right-wing pressure campaign to win over Republican critics.