When the Republicans finally get around to selecting a new speaker, maybe the winner should take the oath of office using a copy of The Lord of The Flies instead of the Bible. Seems to me a book about squabbling children would be most appropriate. #uspolitics
@Jgmeadows It really needs to be emphasized that the #Speaker is elected by the whole house, not just the majority party.
Folks misunderstanding that is a large reason why we're in this mess in the first place.
@volkris @Jgmeadows do you still believe in Santa Claus? Everything is so partisan in the US.
@SaanichGuy Each and every representative in the House was elected by their district.
If we decide to elect people who toe a line with a political party, well we get what we vote for.
We should probably stop re-electing these jerks, but step one in that is calling them out for what they actually do.
And then voting for other people next time.
@volkris @Jgmeadows a common set of national election laws and non-partisan area design would be great starts.
@SaanichGuy @volkris Full disclosure writing as a Canadian watching, horrified, from north of the border. While it's not a perfect institution, I really like the fact that we have a non-partisan organization called Elections Canada that sets electoral riding boundaries across Canada. We have no shortage of politicians who would be all over gerrymandering if given half a chance.
@Jgmeadows people down here don't realize just how complicated districting really is because not only is it inherently complicated trying to figure out where to draw those boundaries, but now we have a whole series of state and federal law contradicting each other that both reject and require gerrymandering.
Take the recent Alabama case where it's been under. Reported that what the Supreme Court actually said was that the state was required to gerrymander, faulting the state for being out of compliance with federal law because it didn't gerrymander enough.
Yeah, just wrap your mind around that. That's how nuts the whole situation is.
