A “symbolic vote” vs. a challenge for the speakership?
Are you 20 years old?
What gives you the idea that no one wants to be Speaker? A speaker can rival the President in power if the Speaker is strong and the President weak.
Use your magic telephone and call Chris Matthews someday soon. Ask him if his boss Tip O’Neill enjoyed the speakership. Ask Matthews if he enjoyed working under it. Ask him if Jim Wright, Dan Rostenkowski, Tom Foley, Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich enjoyed being Speaker.
Get a call or email to Newt and ask him if he enjoyed being Speaker and how many there were lined up to knock him off.
The problem isn’t that no one wants the job. The problem is that it’s so hard to get it (a schlub like Boehner lands the spot because the more ambitious people line up their allies and no one can get a plurality.) It’s like claiming that no one must want to be a billionaire, ‘cause there are just so few of them.
You’re talking silly. It’s a debate between you and the sane peope, you know?
I have already explained this in detail and you ignore that.
Pelosi wants to be Speaker but no one wants to be GOP Speaker. That is why I posted those challenges to house members via freepers to challenge Bohner as speaker rather than casy symbolic votes for mickey Mouse etc.
Note that my challenges to REALLY challenge him were all prior to Bohners re-selection.
You dont see why no-one wants Bohners job? Seriously?
To get blamed for shutting down the government, defaulting on the debt, anti-women policies, anti-immigrant and being called a traitor by some in his own party?
No one was willing to step up for that job. Its a Kabuki dance.