GOP Fear Speaker Battle Means 'Can't Certify the Election'

Couldn't there be a temporary Speaker voted upon and appointed for, say, one day, in order to validate the Election results?

@#3 ... you forget you're dealing with MAGA. ...

My bad. ;)

@#5 ...I would hope not ...

But, might that be what the GOP is reduced to, in order to certify the election results?

So many questions, so few answers ....

@#8 ... There seems to be more than a few Republicans in the House who realize where Trump is trying to take the country and don't like the idea of dancing on the end of a string for an imperial presidency. ...

I agree.

Which is also why I think a vote for a new [long term] House Speaker may not go well.

How many ballots were required before Spkr Johnson was elected to the Speaker position? How long did that process take?

Gory details of our process are here ...

October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
- -- Otto von Bismarck (?)

@#12 ... Wouldn't it be a hoot if they held their ground and elected Jeffries? ...

It would be more than a hoot.

But also, not likely to happen.

My current view is that Minority Leader Jeffries will be stepping back from this issue.

Maybe along the lines of ...

Never Interfere With an Enemy While He's in the Process of Destroying Himself
--- Napoleon

@#13 ... Our system is much more efficient. Justin will probably get the boot next week ...

Much more efficient? Based upon what criteria?

OK that aside, yeah.

What is currently occurring in Canada, and Germany, is telling.

@#16 ... For one thing, election campaigns go a minimum of 36 days to a maximum of 50. ...

And that affects the efficiency ... how?

@#18 ... Let's just say it gets it over with before you are completely sick to death of hearing about it. ...

Yeah, there seems to be that aspect.

But I probably might have gone more with the ability to call such snap elections.

:)

@#19 ... there's another thing called nipping it in the bud. The House would be a good place to start if they so have the mind. ...

Congress has already given the Trump-Musk coalition the finger with the rejection of the budget bill hat Mr Musk proposed.

So there's that.

But, given the slim majority the GOP holds in the House, my current view is ... get yer popcorn ...

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Morning Glory (1968)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com

...
I lit my purest candle
Close to my window
Hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by
And I waited in my fleeting house

Before he came I felt him drawing near
Passing here I felt the anxious fear
But he had come to my door and jeered
And I waited in my fleeting house

Tell me stories, I called to the hobo
Stories of cold, I smiled to the hobo
Stories of old, I knelt to the hobo
And he stood before me in my fleeting house

No, said the hobo, no more tales of time
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime
I can't come in 'cause it's too hard a climb
And he walked away from my fleeting house

Then you'll be damned, I screamed to the hobo
Leave me alone, I wept to the hobo
Turn into stone, I knelt to the hobo
And he walked away from my fleeting house
...

@#22 ... Why do we keep assuming they want to govern? ...

Ya know, you raise a very valid point.

Do the MAGA politicians descending upon Washington, D.C. (Pres-elect Trump included) actually want to govern, or are they just looking for retribution?

@#24 ... Waiting for co-presidents in waiting Musk and Trump to tell them what to do. Sorry, GOPers, but transforming yourselves into political eunuchs is an act that cannot be corrected. ...

Looks like both of them have endorsed Spkr Johnson.