• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Even putting aside the recent hyper-divisiveness between the Parties and the country at-large… Voting for the other Party’s Speaker nomination is just not done. Like, it hasn’t happened for decades.

    They currently have control of the house, they need to work together to vote in their Speaker. However, If they want to cooperate in a bipartisan manner, they can vote for the Democrats’ nomination: Hakeem Jeffries.

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      Voting for the other Party’s Speaker nomination is just not done. Like, it hasn’t happened for decades.

      Sounds like it’s time for a change, then.

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        Totally fair. Republicans can’t complete this simple procedural step so that the House can actually function; they certainly can’t govern!

        So Democrats should go above and beyond and do their job for them with no actual positive results to bring back to the People they represent. They should reach far across the middle, to a Party that once again proved days ago it can’t keep its word on agreements. And if anything doesn’t go perfectly (for Republicans), they’ll falsely blame Democrats and score political points off the circus they created, while the country suffers. Like I said, totally good and fair…

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        Republicans have tossed away precedence when it suited them, now’s a good a time as ever to break tradition because as it stands the Republican lunatics are running the asylum.

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      Voting for the other Party’s Speaker nomination is just not done.

      Well, time for a change, then.

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        I realize I made it sound like an etiquette procedural thing. What I really meant is it’s literally not their job. Republicans are in control of the House, therefore they need to choose their own Speaker and then find a way to Govern.

        Sure, you could walk into another department of your job and start trying to help, but you wouldn’t be effective, and would probably be in the way. That’s the best comparison I could think of…

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      requiring bipartisan agreement on who holds the role wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.

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        The role is to lead the majority coalition, which currently means no Dems allowed. GOP made those rules, they have to follow them just like everyone else.