House Speaker Ongoing Melodrama

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(10-03-2023, 10:15 PM)pally Wrote: Votes for the Speaker of the House are ALWAYS party line.  The majority party chooses their person.  The Democrats don't want Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.  He's lied to them more than once and then when they bail him out (debt ceiling and keeping govt open) he backstabs them.

The Republicans are a mess, it is not the job of the Democrats to fix that.

Tell me...name one reason other than pettiness led to a senior legislature and Speaker emeritus being removed from her office when everyone knew she was away attending a funeral.  What was so urgent it had to be done just hours after McCarthy lost his job because the MAJORITY couldn't get their act together?  

I understand being a cult and 100% of the Democrats voting in sync. What does that tell the citizens? It tells us they don't represent their districts, they get to DC and they are beholden to the DNC. Is that healthy? It may be good for politics within the DNC, but not for everyday citizens.

Time will tell if this impacts a government shutdown. If it does, it was a 100% Democrat vote to remove the speaker with a few Republicans. The Democrats also control the Senate and the White House. It appears to me if government is shutdown. todays vote played a major role in it. Were Democrats thinking about government employees today? I say not at all, so they will have no right in 6 weeks to complain if the government is shut down.