So you can’t unseat the Speaker once he’s elected? Can you at least change the composition of the house committees and the committee chairmen?
From what I understand, we could only unseat Williams via impeachment, and that won’t happen. You’d have to have the Dem caucus go along. He’s technically committed no “legal” crime, but moral, yes. And no, the Speaker is extremely powerful, he and he alone decides the makeup of who runs the committees, and he gave most of the plum stuff to the rodents. We’re just stuck until January 2011 (unless Williams resigns beforehand, and why would he, when he has that much power and will be the last powerful position he’ll ever hold ?).