“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
I’m suggesting a way to capitalize on the mistake. What good is an enemy’s mistake if you don’t take advantage of it?
The assistant Clerks of the House have been rotating calling the roll. I’m curious to see that little booklet she’s writing in. For McCarthy and Jeffries votes she’s just making a notation on the page, but for the Jordan votes she flips it over and writes on the back.
I do admire that she’s got the red, white, and blue nail polish going.
By giving them an off-ramp? No way, they can get themselves out of this mess. No need to help them conclude this shit show.
Oh, I’ll have to look for that during the next vote. Or the one after that. Or the one…
If they get out of this mess with Jordan as speaker we all lose.
I’d rather they, as @silenus said, let the Republicans twist in the wind. They don’t need us (as a Democrat) to help them out. And the optics of selling out the first black party backed Democratic nominee for Speaker would… not be great.
I am reminded of this quote:
To get the man’s soul and give him nothing in return – that is what really gladdens our Father’s heart.
–Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters
Will never happen. Jordan is loathed among Dems universally, and about 90% of Republicans, too. He’s at the top of the number of votes he can garner for Speaker with this last vote, more or less.
And they adjourned until noon tomorrow.
House adjourned until noon tomorrow after no election on the 3rd ballot. (McCarthy probably should have done this after the second ballot to see if they could move towards each other)
(To resurrect a golden oldie)
This may just be the break the McCain campaign has been looking for!
Great news- Democrats don’t have to stick around all night playing this game of Republican disfunction.
Well, there goes one of my predictions: I expected McCarthy would likely clinch it on day one. Very happy to be wrong about that! 
The Democrats were running out of popcorn anyway.
Bunch of slackers. They should be back bright and early at 7 AM 
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I would LOVE it if tomorrow they brought in a movie-sized popcorn maker and all got bags to munch on.
There seems to be an idea in this thread that a quick decision makes a party look good, and one that takes a long time, the opposite.
Maybe, but I doubt it. Congress, as a whole, polls poorly despite a history of boring leadership contests.
I’m a Democrat. But, in the abstract, the idea that Democrats vote for party leaders unanimously does not endear me to said party.
Republicans also tend to vote in an unattractive-to-me lockstep, with a few exceptions like today.
It’s not a question of selling out, but of acknowledging the inevitable when you can’t win.
This is a classic case of the party base saying to fight to the end when waging the battle has no value.