GOP’s Scalise ends his bid to become House speaker

a reply to: Threadbare

Yeah, I get that. But all of them? Can we not even entertain the notion that there are among them real patriots? Real conservatives that would place the nation above party partisanship? Would it not be the wiser course for the other party to act as if there are? And if there are would they even attempt to reach across if all they saw was an entire party voting as a solid block ? Presenting as partisan helps to maintain partisanship from the other side.

a reply to: TerryMcGuire

Four Democrats from the Problem Solvers caucus have floated the idea of increasing McHenry's authority in order to make sure important funding bills get passed. In exchange, McHenry would have to agree to give the Dems 50% control of the suspension bills calendar.

Oh for crying out loud ... Scalise or Jordan ... does it really make that much of a difference? Just put one of them in already and get it done. Jeeeze ....

How interesting that inside the house of our nation's leaders, they can't find a single good leader.

Very interesting.

a reply to: FlyersFan

Oh it definitely does make a difference.
One is just a repeat and the other is just a thing that everyone grows out of.
Both are bad choices and will absolutely do nothing to further the party agenda.
Normally this would be an easy choice but Orange man has successfully divided the GOP and made them look weak.
Not a Democratic problem. But a funny one TBH.

originally posted by: Mahogany
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Republican Steve Scalise ended his bid to become House speaker late Thursday after hardline holdouts refused to back the party’s nominee, throwing the GOP majority into deeper chaos with the chamber unable to function.

Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door evening meeting of his decision and pointedly declined to announce backing for anyone else, including his chief rival, Rep. Jim Jordan, the far-right Judiciary Committee chairman backed by Donald Trump who had already told colleagues he no longer would seek the job.

Next steps are uncertain as the House is essentially closed while the Republican majority tries to elect a speaker after ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job.

This happened even after Jim Jordan announced he would no longer run for the position and he endorsed Steve Scalise. The hard-right refused to accept that endorsement and kept voting for Jim Jordan.

Jordan had given his most vocal endorsement yet to Scalise and announced he did not plan to continue running for the leadership position.

“We need to come together and support Steve,” Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters before the midday closed session.

But it was not enough to sway the holdouts.

This is pretty frustrating. These hard liners seem intent on just shutting everything down and not allowing America to function. We are now again only weeks from a government shutdown, after McCarthy managed to push through a temporary 45 day extension resolution, but that's not a lot of time and two weeks have already been lost.

If the House has no speaker and is essentially a non-functioning part of the government, who steps up to keep things going?

The GOP is a raging dumpster fire at this point.

It won’t change until enough constituents figure that out and vote these fools from office.