• frezik@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s a backup Speaker, Patrick McHenry, who will probably keep the seat warm until the next election.

    Democrats have a lot of options here, and they all have some upside. Keep McCarthy on, and they might still be able to work out deals with him (devil-you-know strategy). Let him go, and there’s a few other options. Work with a handful of the slightly more sensible Republicans to put someone they can all agree with up there. Or let the GOP fight amongst themselves and take all the blame in the lead up to the next election.

    They all have merit. One way it could somewhat backfire is if the GOP tries that insane plan to put in Trump as Speaker. The next steps are to impeach and remove both the President and Vice President, thus putting Trump back into the White House, since the Speaker is next in line. This plan has too many failure modes to actually work, but they might try step one, anyway.

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      One way it could somewhat backfire is if the GOP tries that insane plan to put in Trump as Speaker. The next steps are to impeach and remove both the President and Vice President, thus putting Trump back into the White House, since the Speaker is next in line.

      Jeez that’d be fuckin bananas.

      I never even thought that far into their crazy scheme.

      Naturally this would fail hard once it got to the Senate vote, but still…

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        That’s OK, they didn’t think it through, either. It’s something that’s been actively circulated at conservative events. The attendees with more than two braincells know it’s never going to work, but there’s plenty of attendees with only one.

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      Yeah, no rules that I’m aware of that dictate when the next election for speaker must be held. It would be funny if they just don’t do it, and speaker Pro Tempore just assumes all duties.

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        I don’t think this works because I believe according to House rules, until there’s a Speaker (not a pro temp), the only issue the House can take up is the confirmation of a new Speaker.

        See Exhibit A: When the House was paralyzed in January when they spent 17 ballots, give or take, to confirm McCarthy.

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        1 year ago

        Having both the President and Vice President to have “Speaker Trump” would be a crazier plot than the plot of Swing Vote.