• Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t shake the bad feeling that the timing is going to be a real problem once shutdown time rolls around here in less than 40-ish days. What if we don’t even have a fucking speaker at all by then??

    There is the possibility that Dems coordinate a vote with the not-Freedom Caucus GOP to elect the least disagreeable candidate, though…

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      1 year ago

      If that was a possibility, I would think they would have done so in one of the 14 ballots before Republicans settled on McCarthy.

      Look what they did to Liz Chaney. They would expel a Republican that did that from the party, and then they would Primary them out of office.