What is the purpose of this charade in the House?? How is McCarthy not humiliated beyond repair? On the flip side, I'm loving the absolute solidarity among the Democrats.
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The purpose is that House members have to come together behind a Speaker to manage the processes in the chamber, and among the entire membership of the House, they have strong disagreements about who should serve that role and how.
It's really not about McCarthy since the House membership could vote in whoever they want, if they agreed on a way to go. They don't, though.
The absolute solidarity among Democrats is making it even harder for the House to choose a Speaker, but that's just part of the extreme division being represented by the people we elected.
@volkris My question about purpose was rhetorical because it's seriously insane to keep voting over and over again expecting different results. McCarthy is an extremely weak, pitiful creature who simply doesn't deserve the gavel. Meanwhile, nobody is in charge, the people's work isn't being conducted and this is tiresome and makes the country look weak.
Well, I'm not sure they DO expect different results.
We don't get to have a clear picture into what's going on behind the scenes as they negotiate, but in the end this is not just some sort of figurehead.
The Speaker has a lot of authority in the House to direct processes, and members honestly don't agree on giving that power to anyone.
They're currently voting against giving anyone that power because they can't agree on anyone who would wield it well.
By the rules, better to conduct no work than do actually bad things.
@volkris My point is McCarthy is staying in the race, but the votes are not going to change and he will not be Speaker. This is all about his ego now; not about the good of the House or the country. I don't know if there is a compromise that can be made with the 10 hardcore insurrectionists. It just shows what a disaster the GOP has become. And the Democrats are not going to "save" McCarthy so the best thing for Kevin to do is just move on.
But that's not how this election process works.
By the rules of selecting a Speaker, there's no requirement that anyone actually be in the race, and in fact they regularly vote for people who refuse to run. They did so even this week.
The representatives that we voted to represent us are voting as they see fit, and the vast majority of them, Democrats and Republicans, are indicating that they think the House is better not operating than operating under the power of each others' candidates.
Democrats could easily sideline the hardcore Republicans, but they, too, are voting to keep it shut down.
*shrug*
