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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho will be the Speaker of the House for the 118th congress?
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Kevin McCarthy | |
2 (10%) |
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Steve Scalise | |
4 (20%) |
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Byron Donalds | |
0 (0%) |
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Andy Biggs | |
0 (0%) |
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Don Bacon | |
0 (0%) |
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Jim Jordan | |
0 (0%) |
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Jim Banks | |
0 (0%) |
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Lee Zeldin | |
0 (0%) |
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Hakeem Jeffries | |
4 (20%) |
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Somebody else | |
10 (50%) |
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Who will be the Speaker of the House for the 118th congress? (Original Post)
ColinC
Jan 2023
OP
I don't think anyone currently on the rePuq side can get 218 of those fucking idiots...
Enter stage left
Jan 2023
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IggleDuer
(964 posts)1. Liz Cheney
N/V
hlthe2b
(102,494 posts)3. Well, we wouldn't like many of her policies but at least the important
work would get done (debt ceiling, Ukraine, etc) and she'd hold little tolerance for the insurrectionists in office. So, it would certainly be entertaining.
gab13by13
(21,480 posts)2. Tom Cole.
bottomofthehill
(8,361 posts)10. I think you are on to something.
If they cant get scalise, Cole is the guy.
haele
(12,688 posts)4. They'll have an internal coup every couple weeks because of
some stupid "no confidence vote" rule McCarthy lets be adopted because he thinks will get him the last few holdouts.
Now that they as a group have "won", they will eat themselves alive like all authoritarian minded toddler-adults do to their "competition".
Haele
TexasTowelie
(112,619 posts)5. I heard that Louis Gohmert was looking for a job. nt
Enter stage left
(3,403 posts)6. I don't think anyone currently on the rePuq side can get 218 of those fucking idiots...
to vote for her/him.
Brings to mind the saying "herding cats!"
Meadowoak
(5,571 posts)7. McCarthy will have the votes tomorrow, after TFG makes some
Calls.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)8. I think a former House Republican was there vying for speaker today.
I would not be surprised if Trump went to the chamber tomorrow to try and worm his way in. That's how much of a shit show this has been so far.
dchill
(38,594 posts)9. Jon Voight.
iemanja
(53,112 posts)11. No idea