• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    YTA. It is just unreasonable to expect a party to vote for the opposing party’s Speaker, and if a Speaker can’t get enough votes to save themselves, they aren’t about to lead an effective coalition.

    The option was already dysfunction vs a different kind of dysfunction because of the Republicans who turned against their own Speaker. They would either get a Speaker they approved of or they would bring the House to a standstill. They had already taken to blocking all House business under McCarthy. You just have to blame the dysfunction on them.