Jim Jordan’s Big Day Ends in Chaos and Failure: The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor Kevin McCarthy did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel.

by thenewrepublic

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  1. On Tuesday evening, Jim Jordan announced that the next vote for speaker would occur on Wednesday—giving him more time to try to persuade holdouts. After all, what’s one more day without a speaker, just a month before a government funding deadline?

  4. OK, playtime’s over. It’s time to get serious and vote Jeffries for Speaker.

  5. Pelosi: zero failed votes, never lost the gavel

    McCarthy: 14 failed votes, lost the gavel

    Jordan: 1 failed vote, so far…

  7. Jordan only allowed one vote for Scalise. Is he going to man up and step aside now that he’s failed?

  8. Just vote Jeffries in already … they know they wanna. 😂

  10. It’s like watching a kindergarten class vote on who gets the chocolate bar.

  11. Maybe they should change the vote to ranked choice voting. It worked well in Alaska.

  12. Just give Jeffries the job don’t worry he will talk and work with both sides

  13. If this was a European parliament we’d be talking about a minority party not being able to form a coalition to elect a prime minister. The Republican party has fractured.

  15. Hopefully the country dodged a bullet by the Republicans not giving him the speakership. It’s not over yet.

  16. While it is quite satisfying that a slimy traitorous fuck like jordan is going to have to lick the boots of his fellow republicans, we do actually need a functioning government. The government is going to shut down in about a month if this stunt continues.

  17. His high crotch lift and dump persuasion technique was a zero-sum game.

  18. He did today what he’s done for 16 years. He’s consistent you got to hand him that. He’s never passed a bill in 16 years

  19. Republicans are out of their godamn minds to give this job to this gerrymandered shit stain idiot. Clearly they don’t care about America anymore.

  20. It’s just a matter of time until some centrist R gets support from 7-8 D’s and becomes the new Speaker.

  24. Not a single woman in that group, despite being half the population. Why do women vote for the GOP?

  25. It’s one thing to have different views on issues.

    It’s one thing to look the other way at sexual abuse of others.

    Strong support of a former POTUS who drove an insurrection against the USA is next level unacceptable.

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