Posted on 10/09/2023 6:43:55 AM PDT by cotton1706
The race for House Speaker is dividing Senate Republicans, reflecting the broader division in the GOP between traditional and MAGA-aligned conservatives.
Many mainstream Republican senators are quietly rooting for the House to elect Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) over Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and for the transition to happen as quickly as possible to quell voters’ concerns about the Republican Party’s ability to govern.
Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, dropped out of the Speaker’s race Saturday.
Lawmakers who want Scalise to lead the House think he would have a better working relationship with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and could do a better job of finessing must-pass bills through the House.
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No... What I am saying is that your next door neighbor has no right to tell you how to use your yard even though you work together.
“I actually think Scalise would be a better fit for Speaker than Jordan, and they would make a good team, allowing Jordan to build up a support base and learn the job for later.”
Scalise votes similarly to McCarthy (see below) and would be more of the same. He’s the next in the designated line of succession and we need somebody else, preferably somebody NOT put into a committee chairmanship by Boehner (Republican Study Committee), and that’s Scalise. While Boehner REMOVED Jordan from a chairmanship (same Republican Study Committee). Scalise would make the same kind of committee appointments that McCarthy or Ryan would.
We need somebody new, and FINALLY a Speaker with a conservative voting record.
Steve Scalise: 58%
Jim Jordan: 94%
Kevin McCarthy: 54%
If the DungHill is promoting Scalise....there is your answer.
...better job of finessing...
Knowing the GOP-e, I keep seeing a different F-word
If the Hill says it, simply think the opposite. They get their truths from people like Thune, Eyepatch McCain etc
I get your point, and like it when there is pushback against
the socialists. My assessment is that whoever the next Speaker is, we are not going to end up with “conservative” legislation and policy from the House as now constituted and blocked by the Senate and Brandon. I’d rather Jordan not wear out his “new” factor prematurely.
What I actually want is a leader with a simple, doable, expressable agenda for fixing the worst aspects of what ails us. Not too much; not abstract; oriented towards spending reduction and re-establishing a real budget process; a focus on law, order, a return to sanity, and stopping mass immigration; not veering into social legislation that will fail yet motivate a deluge of opposition. Oh, wait, I drifted off and started dreaming again.
The House has enormous power. But that only means anything if there’s a Speaker with the determination to use it.
And a pantywaist protege like Scalise just isn’t that person.
Jordan has the stones, and I think the will, to go up against Schumer saying, “we’re spending this much this year and no more. You can pass what we passed or appoint conferees. I’m not negotiating. The conferees can negotiate. That’s their job.”
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