# House Speaker Contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 12, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770 "2022-11-12T00:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 89
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1761 "2023-01-07T03:04:02Z")
Buckle in. Tonight could be long, even if they get a speaker. A rules revolt is forming, so perhaps the votes are not as locked in as they thought. Gavel strike. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1762 "2023-01-07T03:07:44Z")
Chatter is they should expect to be there past 2 and maybe 3 am ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1763 "2023-01-07T03:11:11Z")
Gawd, the lipstick they’re trying to put on this pig just turns my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1764 "2023-01-07T03:22:31Z")
Voting has started no alternate name has been put forward. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1765 "2023-01-07T03:22:33Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Chatter is they should expect to be there past 2 and maybe 3 am > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > – I wonder whether they’ll eventually try the tactic of ‘keep going all night until people are so exhausted they’ll agree to stuff they’d never have agreed to while awake’? Wonder if it’ll work. – the other problem, of course, is that people who agreed to something when they were too tired to think often renege, in one fashion or another, once they’ve had some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1766 "2023-01-07T03:23:14Z")
Biggs votes for Jordan ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1767 "2023-01-07T03:23:51Z")
Boebert votes Present. It’s over ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1768 "2023-01-07T03:23:58Z")
Boebert is Present. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1769 "2023-01-07T03:28:37Z")
Crane for Biggs ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1770 "2023-01-07T03:29:12Z")
Interesting though that when the applause broke out after Boebert voted present they cut to her and she was shaking her head as if to say no. Curious why. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1771 "2023-01-07T03:33:26Z")
Gaetz didn’t vote. Waiting until the second call, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1772 "2023-01-07T03:33:52Z")
Wants to be the power putz. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1773 "2023-01-07T03:35:36Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Gaetz didn’t vote. Waiting until the second call, perhaps? Yes, presumably to be a dick. He can make us wait until the end to know the result now. Good voted for Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1774 "2023-01-07T03:36:52Z")
Gaetz may be doing the math for a heroic last voter puts McCarthy over the top. Which is exactly what Adam Kinzinger just said on CNN 10 seconds after I typed this. Yay, me! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1775 "2023-01-07T03:38:50Z")
What was the last big applause for? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1776 "2023-01-07T03:40:06Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Interesting though that when the applause broke out after Boebert voted present they cut to her and she was shaking her head as if to say no. Curious why. She’ll get another chance to vote to correct it if it was a mistake by the reading clerk. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1777 "2023-01-07T03:42:27Z")
So Biggs and Crane held firm, but Boebert changed to Present so far? And maybe Good did too? That may have been the applause. Rosendale and Gaetz left. I’m guessing Gaetz wants to be the last one just because that’s who he is. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1778 "2023-01-07T03:42:41Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > What was the last big applause Hunt. Had to go to TX because his wife went into preterm labor, had to rush back after the birth. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1779 "2023-01-07T03:42:57Z")
Jeffries voting for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1780 "2023-01-07T03:43:18Z")
Oh, that makes sense. Couldn’t imagine Good backed down. So still 3 non-McCarthy votes, with two possibles remaining. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770.md?page=90)