Rep. Matt Gaetz just nominated Trump to be the next Speaker of the House.
You don't have to be a House member to be Speaker.
Dems should nominate Obama.
@rbreich Dems should not get pulled into the shenanigans. Gaetz is getting desperate and so is Boebert and other hard right Republicans. #USPolitics #1ClapTrump
I strongly disagree, as one would hope that Democrats would like to have an operational House in which the function.
Right now they are voting as a block to say they would rather have the House shut down, so they are already well into shenanigans.
They could be part of the solution. So far many Democrats have been explicitly saying they refuse to be.
Yes it is the game of politics, but that's exactly the shenanigans that I'm saying Democrats are promoting here.
Democrats don't actually need Republican cooperation to allow the House to begin its work. They can merely answer absent during the vote, at which point the fringe Republicans will be outvoted easily and lose their influence altogether.
But as you say, Democrats are playing this game that keeps the House closed, empowering that fringe group, and if you want to say that's all for the best that's fine, but we need to be clear that that's what's happening.
All of that is beside the point. I don't really care if Republicans would or wouldn't do the same thing, I would say the exact same thing about them if they did.
Like I said, you might agree with this strategy and that's fine but let's be clear about what's going on, that Democrats are choosing to vote in a way that magnifies the influence of fringe Republicans, setting them up to have far more power in the upcoming session.
I think that's a bad thing. You might disagree.
If Democrats want to talk to a leader all they have to do is get out of the way, and within 1 hour there can be a leader for them to talk to.
@volkris @rbreich good luck with that however because within these 20 there are those that put their image and pettiness before the interests of the country. There are also some that would like to take the country hostage, you can ask them what do they want but the thing is that they just like having hostages. We need to vote these cancers out really.
Well we can't vote these representatives out because we aren't their voters. They were chosen by their constituents, and it's up to them who they want representing them.
So since the representative system is stuck with them, IMO we should take away their power by not playing these games with them.
Instead, by playing this game, Democrats have boosted them into a position where they are having major influence on how this session is going to go.
Thanks, Democrats. Hope the game was worth it.
@volkris @rbreich this is the game of politics and Democrats voting as a block is a common strategy for possible concessions and also teaches Republicans to own up to all the chaos that they've enable. These 20 Republican hold outs would rather hold the country hostage than even negotiate with fellow Republicans. It's ridiculous to believe that they would be reasonable to work with across the isle with Democrats. It's like trying to govern with cancer, Republicans have a chance to address.