Day 2 - Part 2

Day 2 - Part 1

To be fair, his choices were bad and worse.

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it.   They may have had a modicum of organizational and reasoning skills.  They didn't have idiots like Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Lauren Boebert back then.

They should, Jeffries being the Democratic leader, but they don't dare.

Republicans have been trying to destroy the government since the 80s.  I can't believe all the people that vote for them actually understand that.

SIXTH ballot underway.  Who will blink first?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Oh, snap!...He's lost Matt Gaetz!  

“This is on them,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), the incoming chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

Aguilar said he hasn’t been approached by any lawmakers about a search for a potential consensus candidate, nor have Democratic leaders presented that possibility to their rank-and-file members, who are united behind Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the incoming minority leader who got all 212 Democratic votes on Tuesday’s three ballots.

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[E]ven those Democrats who have supported the idea of a consensus candidate don’t appear ready to jump on board. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who has been open to that strategy, is also downplaying that idea this week amid the Republicans’ struggles to seat a new Speaker.

“At the end of the day, this is a Republican mess,” he told CNN Tuesday night. “This is a failure of them to govern. This is their problem to fix.”

“And Democrats stand ready if they want to vote for Hakeem Jeffries,” Khanna added, suggesting a strategy that’s a non-starter among Republicans.

  The Hill

Although it would be the best thing for the country, by far.

“For one day — it was unfortunate — we can deal with that. But now it gets serious, because we effectively don’t have a House of Representatives,” [Dem Rep Ted] Lieu said. “This can’t keep on going. You can’t have one branch of the federal government simply not function.”

I think he's about to find out we can.

So...nothing's breaking loose.

UPDATE:  I think she might have been wrong.  But all we have is a microphone in one place that might not pick up what she heard.  Or maybe she's been told what to hear.

So there'll be some serious scrambling this afternoon.

UPDATE 7pm Central:

UPDATE:

 Nobody is paying any attention to Trump any more anyway.

Does she think she might have a chance at the VP slot on a Trump ticket?  I have a feeling there's not going to be a Trump ticket.

What makes him think tomorrow will be any different?

The House reconvened briefly Wednesday evening before voting to adjourn for the day rather than hold a seventh vote for Speaker.

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The final vote was 216-214.

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Four Republicans joined all Democrats in voting “no”: Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Rep.-elect Eli Crane (Ariz.).

Two Democrats and two Republicans did not vote.

Democratic leaders had whipped against the motion, hoping to force a seventh Speakership vote.

There appeared to be a commotion on the House floor at the tail end of the vote, as Democrats demanded it be held open longer.

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McCarthy, leaving a meeting later Wednesday said there was no deal but Republicans had “made a lot of progress.”

  The Hill

LOL.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) emerged from a meeting Wednesday evening slamming McCarthy for a “bad faith effort.”

He claimed McCarthy apologized to him for saying untrue things about negotiations with his detractors — but would no do so publicly.

“Mr. McCarthy asked those of us who were not intending to vote for him to provide him a list of our members who might be willing to serve on relevant committees … McCarthy said, 'Look, if you want to have a say on the budget, if you want to have to say on the rules, you have to recommend people that might be willing to serve' … because guess what, not everybody here wants to be a committee chair, subcommittee chair. And so we then endeavor to create that list to provide it to Mr. McCarthy. And then he ran around telling all y'all and members of his team that we were out there negotiating for personal favors for ourselves.”

“It was a bad faith effort for McCarthy to solicit a list and then use that list in some way to try to divide our conference.”

Also with him leaving the meeting was Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). Asked if there is anything that McCarthy can do to win her support, she said: “No.”

source: The Hill

h/t Stephen

See you tomorrow.