Posted on 10/20/2015 9:42:41 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Discharge petitions could be the answer to the impasse in the matter of a new House Speaker.
I don’t much care for the current Speaker of the House John Boehner. If you are reading this, chances are you feel the same way. This said, we should acknowledge that our dislike for Boehner, while currently personal, has its origins in his lies and disregard for our wishes regarding illegal alien control, Obamacare and the passage of a federal budget.
A layman’s review of whether or not the House can actually function without a Speaker reveals that doing so is pretty much foreclosed. The road to steering around the Speaker to get things done in the House has been purposely land-mined.
The politicians of both Parties have made the House Speaker position more indispensable then the federal budget! The weasels in Congress have replaced a federal budget, which is required by the Constitution, with “Continuing Resolutions.” They keep on borrowing and spending America into the poorhouse so the Uniparty can keep on buying votes; but no Speaker means no business conducted.
The “Catch -22” here is that there are ways to conduct House business by bypassing the Speaker, but each has effectively been blocked because they require 218 votes–the same number needed to elect a new Speaker in the first place. If the 218 votes were there, the conservatives could elect a Speaker and get on with saving America.
So what to do?
We don’t have to ask the RINOs to vote for a new Speaker they don’t want and can’t explain supporting. We ask them to vote for the bills we want passed...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Y’all can consider me bat-sh*t crazy deranged. Thanks.
The article doesn’t mention Trump.
The title has been fixed.
It is with a terrible fascination that we watch our once great government disintegrate step by step.
There is no rule requiring that the Speaker be a member of the House. I am sure there is someone they could agree on if that convention were dropped. Maybe Newt if no one else.
The Senate functions just fine (sort of) without a Speaker. The majority caucus runs things anyway. Probably the Founders intended the Speaker to be non-partisan, to symbolically ‘speak’ for the whole House. Now the Speaker is just the majority leader, with the title of Majority Leader going to what is essentially the Speaker’s deputy.
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