Knowing Glenn, I’m sure that he has a reason. I’ve never known him not to have a well thought out reason.
As far as not jumping on talk shows, he is out of town nowdays. Not so easy to make a connection with Charlie, Vicki, or Mark.
My guess from here is the old adage, “If you are going to strike the king, you must kill the king.” If Glenn did not see that this effort was going to succeed (after all 25 votes out of 500+ is not a very good showing) he’d be smarter to work within the system.
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Come on AFTR if he was looking for votes he’d be on that cell phone calling into every one of their shows and they’d be more than happy to give him the floor for his explanation.
He’s ducking this hoping it dies down before he has to answer plain and simple.
To what end?
I didn't send Glenn to DC (and yes, I held my nose and voted for him in the general) to get better "stuff" for my congressional district.
Any House member can write or sponsor legislation. Assuming that Grothman truly has some unique conservative ideas he wants to promote, did Grothman's logrolling on the Speaker vote really create a measurable difference into whether any of his unique legislative ideas come to fruition?
Not likely.
Our representatives need to stand on principle on every day and on every vote. Grothman proved himself to be just another weasel GOP politician - on his very first day and his very first vote in DC!
Nice straw man, btw. But there are only 435 voting House members (not 500+) and the number of votes required for election to Speaker is a simple majority of those actually voting less any member who votes present. Boehner was elected Speaker yesterday with around 200 votes - the fewest number of votes in the last 100 years.
The final tally does not reflect the futility of striking the king, it reflects the extreme unprincipled cowardice of a small handful of alleged conservatives who could AND should have forced a second ballot.
“If you are going to strike the king, you must kill the king.”
I feel better, already! :)