Posted on 10/20/2023 8:59:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I would imagine that Jim Jordan is a tad bit disappointed Friday that his fellow Republicans finally decided to end his dream of becoming speaker after three attempts.
Running for a congressional seat is probably much harder -- physically -- than running around a district of 600,000 people and playing nice. Yet, losing a contest to lead your peers of a little over 200 -- mentally -- has to sting a little bit. Comfortable in the fact that I know that I'll never run for office, I can't say I can really imagine how Jordan feels, having never met the man or talked to too many people who know him.
Yet I'm here with a message of encouragement I'm actually happy that Jim Jordan will not become the next Speaker of the House because I'm pretty darn certain Jim Jordan is right where he needs to be at this moment in time in the history of the United States of America.
Jim got the news Friday that his attempt at gaining the gavel was taken away from him by his fellow Republicans. BREAKING: House Republicans Vote to Drop Jim Jordan as Speaker Nominee
From that article...
The revelation comes on the heels of a third round of voting in which Jordan lost even more support than he had in previous rounds of voting.
With a final vote total of 194, GOP nominee Jim Jordan (R-OH) lost ground, garnering five fewer votes than he had in the second round. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) once again received all 210 Democrat votes. Others who received GOP votes in Friday morning's round include previous nominee Steve Scalise (R-LA), who garnered eight votes, and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who netted six.
CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona indicated in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that voting will conclude for the day and that other candidates “will have until noon Sunday to file to run.”
Of course, this is not the smoothest move, and look, for the GOP -- with just 12-and-a-half months to go until a national election for not only the President but all of their seats. I don't think this is the end of the world, as I wrote the other day here. GRUDGE MATCH: House Republicans Once Again Decide on Not Electing a Speaker
Maybe calling for a vote to vacate the Speaker Chair without a clear-cut plan was not as smooth a move as taking Ex-Lax when you're constipated as some thought. Because now it seems that a personality conflict between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz has spilled out into a bunch of simmering conflicts that the vast majority of us who are political junkies did not know about.
How else do you explain that Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan both received fewer votes from their own caucus than Kevin McCarthy did when he was booted two weeks ago?
Hell of a time for some ax-grinding, I got to tell you that.
Inherently I have no issue with what is being done right now in the House of Representatives and, furthermore, how Kevin McCarthy was originally picked as Speaker back in January with 15 ballots to finally get him the gavel. Gridlock and angst were part of the Founders' plan for all three branches of the United States government. Going a bit further, the House and the Senate were always supposed to be at each other's throats, neither allowing one to be more powerful than the other.
We are actually watching right now the Founders' dream come true.
The ax-grinding will continue but another person will be the Speaker of the House.
This is why I’m just fine as wine in the summertime that Jim Jordan, with the Republican majority right now in the House, will still be the Chairperson of the House Judiciary Committee.
That means he gets to set the agenda for the committee and for whom they get to subpoena and call before said committee, and also leads the questioning. As evidenced in the video below when, just last month, he laid out a case that Attorney General Merrick Garland had been possibly weaponizing the Justice Department.
Take a look for yourself.
I really don't want that guy sitting on a perch, high at the top of the House, trying to wrangle cats.
I want him right in the chair that he's in now, doing the homework, grilling the people that need to be grilled, and leading the committee that is going to lay the groundwork to damage Biden and the Democrats going into the election of 2024.
I love him in that chair, I NEED HIM IN THAT CHAIR.
As I said above, I don't think this is the worst thing that could happen. However, this is another clear-cut example of how every action has a reaction, and sometimes this is not thought through.
My colleague Brandon Morse, right here in the VIP section, had a view that I slightly disagreed with, and I encourage you to read his piece. At This Point, It's Not Matt Gaetz's Fault There's No Speaker of the House.
Gaetz clearly did not think this through because it was a personal thing between him and McCarthy, and that was definitely shown last January. Yet, one of the concessions that the people who held out on the first couple of ballots got from McCarthy was the ability to vacate the chair with just one person. I agreed with that decision then, and I still agree with it now.
However, it was clear that Gaetz had a personal grudge against McCarthy and thought anybody else could be the speaker.
The vast majority of the conference disagreed, and now Matt Gaetz is going to take the brunt of that abuse. That's part of the deal when you make a decision that you might not have actually thought all the consequences through.
You take the adulation with the hate and the longer this goes, the more hate Gaetz is gonna get.
You are still going to have continuing resolutions pass because the Senate isn't going to separate those out.
There is not a politician elected on Capitol Hill right now who gives a damn about the 33 trillion dollars in debt. Because if they did, they would be honest with you and tell you what they have to do to Social Security and Medicare in just a couple of years. Former politicians will tell you, but not the current ones.
Neither Republican nor Democrat is talking about that and until they do, that's when I'll know we can start taking them seriously.
Congressman Jordan, I know you're disappointed but I truly do believe you are exactly where God wants you at this moment, and I hope you continue to do the fabulous job you've done for a number of years -- both in the majority position and the minority position -- grilling those that need to be grilled.
I agree with the author that in hearings, Jordan is a great ‘griller’. Unfortunately, no Dems ever get cooked.
The Romans would recognize today’s Senate.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/305541155949183080/
Yeah, but we’re not talking about the Senate are we? This is all the house’s business.
Faint echoes of Trey Gowdy continue to be heard.
Just elect a ____ speaker.
A handful got their butts hurt because their back-stabbing piece of Shite McCarthy got rightfully removed, just like he was promised would happen if he broke his word.
Line up and vote for Jordon or to hell with them all who don’t.
I would imagine that Jim Jordan is a tad bit disappointed Friday that his fellow Republicans finally decided to end his dream of becoming speaker after three attempts.
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Baloney. Don’t count Jordan out yet.
This is all about Repubs posturing and jockeying for special favors as they try and align themselves for choice positions.
Would anyone like to take a guess on how many votes it took for McCarthy to get the SOH job?
It was a lot more than 3.
I disagree with the author. It wasn’t Gaetz who didn’t think this through, it was McCarthy. McCarthy sod us out, and thought there would be no consequence.
Speaker’s race reminds me of old Abbot and Costello skit, “Who’s on First”. You can watch it on YouTube.
This ridiculous article is a prime example how Conservative Inc is peopled by a large number of people who know almost nothing about politics but think they are the smartest people in the room.
Someone writes something that is immediately picked up and parroted by all the other social media drones in Conservative Inc. “Gaetz had a grudge” is an excellent example of that mindless drone behavior. All of them thinking they have some brilliant insight when what they actually are are overgrown parrots.
Do you understand how a Constitutional Republic works
See you have to actually win votes not just in the US House but also in the US Senate.
The US House doesn’t get to just declare someone impeached and remove them from office
Here is where Conservative Inc demonstrates their fundamental incompetence and drone like group think. Conservative Inc, as demonstrated by this statement quoted above, has fallen for this lie hook, line and sinker
This is the game that has been played in DC for over 2 decades now.. The US House GOP is told “oh you have to only pass bills that the Senate will vote for and the White House will sign”.
The result is the House GOP consistently passes hard Left Democrats Legislation to “get things done”. The Democrat get all the political benefits while the GOP gets all the blame from the voters. This game has got to stop being played by the GOP. This is a chance to do that.
This is a chance for the GOP to start actively using the power of the US House to say “You want something done Senate? You want something done White House? Here is what we passed. Either vote for it or reject it. We have done our job.”
WTH does your reply have to do with my post? Were you replying to someone else?
Who is Duke and shouldn’t this opinionated piece be a vanity post?
McCarthy broke his promises. Removing him was a good thing. It is also a good thing that the Rinos who voted against Jordan have exposed themselves. Whatever it takes to finally get a budget that Is balanced is fine by me. That problem would be at the top if not for fake elections which is problem #1.
Red State: Reliable GOPe drivel.
McCarthy is bad at speaking...
“it was clear that Gaetz had a personal grudge against McCarthy”
Anyone who DIDN’T have a personal grudge against McCarthy is a problem. When I’m lied to, it’s personal. When he never released all of the J6 videos to the public as promised, it was personal. When he extended financial power to Biden for 2 years, it’s personal. It was personal when he played footsie with Jeffries and basically ceded power to HJ. He nixed impeachment of traitors. Agaain ... personal.
Who thinks Gaetz should be OK with that (and more)?
Whomever is able to get through is already a disaster. We’re better off without for a while.
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