House Speaker Contest

432 voting for a person, plus Spartz voting present, Buck not voting, and McEachin being dead = 435

Or order pizza, which I saw mentioned repeatedly in coverage earlier this week.

I agree. At this point, no speech is going to sell any member on changing his or her mind. Everybody is too dug in to change, no matter how wonderful these speeches make the candidate look.

Whoa! Gaetz just nominated Trump for Speaker!

Gaetz went there. He flat out nominated Trump.

It matters more when your party has both a slim majority and deep divisions.

Basically any rando who managed to get elected to the House could call for a snap vote to ouster the Speaker and between the slim majority and a solid bloc of dissidents, be kicked out. It would matter less (but still be annoying) if there was a sufficiently large majority for such a measure to be guaranteed to fail (which was another reason the midterms were such a letdown and led to the current standoff) or if the Speaker could be reasonably assured no divisions within the party were sufficiently deep for it to matter.

At least if it required 5, it would reduce the chances it happened.

He really does look like Butt-Head. To bad there’s no congressman that looks like Beavis.

Good heavens, seriously?!? The insanity has deepened!

He’s already voted Trump a couple of times, no surprise here.

Gym Jordan.

I know the math. :roll_eyes: I guess I just misheard/misread the vote totals on C-Span.

Gaetz always looks like Buddy from The Incredibles to me.

It’s uncanny.

I missed who Bob Good nominated. Was it Kevin Hern?

Still waiting for the revel

Edit Hern

He’s just mentioned Kevin Hern.

And Donalds is out

Not to worry Gates replaced him with another Donald
.

If they’re not careful, Bob Present will be the next Speaker.

Well, some might consider that to be a gift.