I don’t understand what you think is gonna be accomplished by any speaker when we don’t have the Senate nor the presidency. The house may pass some bills that will die in the senate with the Democratic majority. The next two years the only hope we have is for nothing to get done, perhaps we can stop spending money. I go for that, but for anybody that thinks the house is gonna be able to get any of their bills through is not thinking clearly.
I would be ecstatic if nothing ever gets passed.
You’re one of those “Do anything! Do the wrong thing! But don’t just stand there!” kind of guys, aren’t ya?
The person we chose will probably be the speaker (or minority leader) for the foreseeable future. If we do gain control of the Senate and the presidency, we want someone who will advance a conservative agenda. In the current situation, we need someone who will fight to make the inevitable compromises as acceptable as possible. I don't trust McCarthy to do that.
gonna be accomplished = nothing
Let the Democrats own the next 2 years. The only reason the DNC let the Republicants win the house was to have a boogeyman to blame it on for 2024.
“I don’t understand what you think is gonna be accomplished by any speaker when we don’t have the Senate nor the presidency.”
Pure and simple... A road block for two years even if nothing does get passed. A GOP leader who allows the Dems to continue to dictate what the house passes from the Senate is the same as having them own all three again. A stalemate and nothing at all coming out of Congress is better than allowing the Dems to still control all three for the next two years.
I would have preferred that we had the Senate so Republicans could block any more far left-wing extremist presidential nominees, but having the House is better than the past two years of complete democrat control. With just the House, Republicans can perform genuine oversight of the Brandon regime and block any more socialist laws from being passed. Even if we had both houses of Congress, Brandon could veto anything substantive that passed.
Frankly, if nothing else he has to be voted down so as to to reward him for being a charter member of the swamp.
After that, other than perhaps holding a few investagatory committees, I really wouldn't give a damn if they shut the rest of the government down and went on vacation for the rest of their terms.
I'm quite sure we already have enough laws, and that we'll all survive a couple of years without new ones. They'd be doing enough by passing budgets that trim 10% from every single governmental department, bar none. Nothing else really needs to be done until we can have legitimate elections again, not that I figure we'll ever see that.