House Speaker Ongoing Melodrama

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(10-21-2023, 07:02 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Like I said, you can't vote with the "domestic terrorists" and call yourself the adult in the room.  The Dems didn't have to cast a single vote for a Repub, a handful simply had to vote present or not show up.  It doesn't take 217 votes to elect a Speaker, it takes a majority of those voting.  When the Dems go and vote, futilely, for Jeffires they are in fact knowingly voting with Gaetz and the other idiots for chaos.

It also would only take a handful of Republicans to vote for Jeffries, the candidate that gets the most votes each time around.