@TNLNYC they booted McCarthy for marginally working with the democrats. They’ll draw and quarter anyone that votes for Jeffries.
Well no.
208 Democrats voted to boot McCarthy and shut down the house because they figured they could win political points with their base from the chaos.
It had nothing to do with marginally working with Democrats, and Democrats will likely end up with even less power from the episode.
Oh the GOP absolutely did elect the leader for their own party. Steve Scalise was elected majority leader.
The Speaker of the House isn't the leader of a party, though, the office is the leader of the entire chamber, and so far Democrats have been voting with the GOP outliers to prevent the election of a Speaker.
We absolutely can blame them for that because it is the active choice that they are making for whatever strategic reason they see fit.
@volkris @wwew Scalise was elected the leader of the majority but couldn't even get a chance at a vote for the speakership. He was knifed by his own right wing. The democrats have been consistently voting for who they think should be speaker: Hakeem Jeffries. It's who they presented in January, who the whole party voted for then, and who they presented and still voted for today. The only difference between then and now is in the GOP conference. You can't blame democrats for that.
Right, so what's the difference between the process of selecting Majority Leader vs Speaker? Democrats.
You said the GOP can't elect a leader for their own party, but they did.
The issue here is that the whole House, not just the GOP, hasn't been able to elect a leader.
That's the responsibility of both parties.
There is one difference between the parties at this point, though: Democrats actively voted to shut the House down to put us in this position while Republicans voted overwhelmingly against it.
It's worth calling those representatives out on their votes.
