https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ending-speaker-vote/

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will enter Monday night’s House Republican meeting with a burst of momentum less than twenty-four hours before a scheduled vote on the House floor to make him Speaker.

Republicans will convene on Capitol Hill after a day that saw many of Jordan’s declared opponents reverse course and endorse his campaign for the Speaker’s gavel.

Before lunchtime, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) — viewed by many as Jordan’s greatest opponent who reportedly had been organizing an anti-Jordan block — endorsed Jordan, followed before midday by influential Reps. Ken Calvert (R-CA) and Ann Wagner (R-MO).

Jordan’s momentum continued throughout the day as Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), who had previously vowed to oppose Jordan, endorsed him.

While Jordan has made remarkable progress, holdouts remain, including Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who plans to vote for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

McCarthy has announced he is not seeking the gavel and asked not to be nominated before Friday’s conference meeting, which saw Jordan nominated. He may convince those continuing to support him to relent and back Jordan.


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Nicely summarized. Quite accurate I'd guess. Maybe if they stomp their feet some more they could just give the House to the democrats. Stupid fucks.

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Apparently some GOP holdouts are complaining about the “grassroots pressure” on them to vote for Jim Jordan.

Yeah… Ann Wagner heard it big time from her constituents today. The St. Louis County central committee chair was one of them.

Breitbart: Grassroots Energize for GOP Unity Behind Jim Jordan Speakership Bid

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"I haven’t seen anything like this in years,” one top House GOP aide told Breitbart News. “They are literally melting the phone lines. Some offices’ numbers are permanently busy. Thousands and thousands of people are calling their members of Congress demanding Jordan for Speaker.”

^^^Good^^^

These spineless Republicans are terrified of giving Gaetz a win here. Giving us a win. Well, they best suck it up and take it, cause working with the dems or screwing us over now would mean a reckoning worse than what they are now terrified of.

Vote going on now, Jordan vs Jeffries, two votes for McCarthy with votes for McCarthy and Scalise,

It's going back and forth with Jordan or Jefferies leading, a few D have voted for "others" 8 Reps so far are Scalise or McCarthy

Doesn't look like Jordan has the votes on the first round

First Speaker Vote A Bust As Jordan Loses At Least A Dozen Republicans

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...day-floor-vote-looms

Update (1320ET): Jim Jordan has lost at least twelve Republican votes as of this writing, meaning he won't have the 217 votes needed to become speaker in round one.

Recall it took 15 votes in January to elect the now-ousted Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). This could be a long day.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Jordan vs Jeffries, two

Why in the world would republicans vote for Hakeem??

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by HRK:
Jordan vs Jeffries, two

Why in the world would republicans vote for Hakeem??

Or not vote at all, reducing the total needed
which would allow Jefferies to win, perhaps to turn people against Gaetz and his crew, much like the D having to deal with the Squad.

Nancy being smarter than the R in office figured out a way to work with or threaten the Squad into compliance.

Right now he has 212, Jordan 200, with 20 for others, only a majority is needed to confirm

How fucking insane! Republicans being the death of their own party!

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by HRK:
Jordan vs Jeffries, two

Why in the world would republicans vote for Hakeem??

This is a full House membership vote. All the democrats vote for their guy but they're a minority.
The Republicans have a slim majority so they can only have a few vote for someone other then their guy or it starts over.

How does the uniparty feel about a Speaker Jim Jordan?

Congressman Gaetz called for a motion to vacate the chair, and he succeeded in removing Kevin McCarthy from the position of speaker of the House.

While I may not entirely agree with the methods employed, I do believe that someone who ascends to the position of speaker of the House should be the ultimate politician. He should make deals, and keep them, that benefit the country and the party, or he risks being removed. That has always been the case.

Personally, I was a bit skeptical of Speaker McCarthy when he misled about multiple votes during the vote for speaker. He claimed he had it in the bag several times when in fact he did not. I am not saying he did not have some success; he obviously did. I am only pointing out that he misled several times on the vote in January.

As far as the current situation to select a speaker, I also am okay with taking time to get it right, and not cutting a deal with Democrats just to speed things up.

What I find the most amusing is that this situation really seems to be uncovering the uniparty members, and it seem to be causing certain heads to explode.

Overlay the Ukraine situation, sending over $100 billion with no oversight, along with the situation around Speaker Select Jordan, and you will see some of the names agitating for two significant items: spending unlimited money that we are probably borrowing in whole or in part from China, and unofficial talks with Democrats about a bipartisan speaker situation.

I believe that some of the people agitating for both of these items might be displaying their uniparty allegiance.

Unlike some Republicans, I do not wish to name names. I did not want to believe in the uniparty, but I now believe. And I believe that if you look at the members of Congress who say we can't ask questions about aid to Ukraine, and want to make a deal with Democrats for the speaker position, you will start to see the uniparty affiliates showing their true colors.

As a conservative American, I only urge the House Republicans to get it right and at the same time don't make a deal with the Democrats. The Democrats/socialists hate freedom-loving conservatives, and they can't be trusted in such a deal. The socialists have shown that the raw power flexing is all they care about.

I ask you to consider one item about Congressman Jordan: Democrats are scared of his elevation. Elect Congressman Jordan as speaker of the House, and Democrat heads will start exploding. For that reason alone, I think Republicans should put all doubts aside and make it official this week. Rank-and-file conservatives should take note of the actions of their representatives, including if they are willing to try to cut a deal with Democrats, and send them a firm message about conservative values. We have to root out the members who are not looking out for the American people before our constitutional republic slides any further into socialism.

https://www.americanthinker.co...aker_jim_jordan.html

Or... just hold out. No Speaker= no new laws, no spending, no idiocy.

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”

https://twitter.com/CitizenFre...arthy-speaker-dumbss

Now Jordan is saying the next vote will be Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. ET:

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-to-lock-down-gavel/

Morons.

And Vote #2 is underway.....

Fox News has been showing the count in between talking heads, annnddddd he's done in this count...

Jordan is falling short, still some R hold outs voting for Scalise and McCarthy

And local news just announced he is already short even though the vote is not complete. KGAN News Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Ron Paul: A New House Speaker Won't Solve The Bigger Problem

The House recently ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the wake of the continuing resolution to keep spending money and avoid a government shutdown. Dissatisfied Republicans frustrated with the GOP’s unwillingness to address the federal spending problem banded together with Democrats to send McCarthy packing.

While the outcome might be politically satisfying to some, it’s not going to solve the underlying problem.

The US government is over $33 trillion in debt. The Biden administration managed to add half a trillion dollars to the debt in just 20 days. A new speaker can’t fix that. As Ron Paul put it, the fundamental issue is rooted in financial and moral bankruptcy.

The following article was originally published by the Ron Paul Institute:

Last week we witnessed a dramatic, historical first: A Speaker of the US House of Representatives was removed from that position by a vote from Members of that body. US Rep. Matt Gaetz was able to gather enough Republicans dissatisfied with the leadership of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to send him packing.

What was the last straw? According to Gaetz, it was McCarthy’s secret deal with President Biden and the Democrats to bring up another huge funding package for Ukraine separately if they agreed to support a bill to keep the government open without Ukraine money in it.

Gaetz and his allies were angry that they were kept in the dark about the deal and in the end it only took eight Republican rebels to end McCarthy’s eight months in the Chair.

Several thoughtful Members, including my friend Thomas Massie, made convincing arguments that Republicans removing the Speaker would do little to nothing when looking at the bigger picture of a record US debt, a continuously growing budget deficit, and runaway inflation. It would also, he argued, do little to fix a broken House of Representatives where Members are more interested in showboating than taking a needed chainsaw to the massive yearly Omnibus spending bill that has taken the place of individual funding bills for each part of the Federal government.

When I was in the House we mostly worked under what was called “regular order,” where each individual appropriations bill was brought to the floor and debated sometimes for several days, and with unlimited amendments, before they held a vote. With regular orders, there was at least a chance that Members and staff could actually read the bills and try to make changes. Multi-thousand-page omnibus bills brought to the Floor at the last minute with a demand that they be passed immediately is part of the reason we are up to our eyeballs in debt. They can – and do – sneak everything into them!

Even with the deserved criticism, however, there is still something satisfying about seeing such a shake-up over the issue of foreign interventionism. After a year and a half and more than $100 billion sent by Biden’s neocons for the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, finally some Members are starting to wake up and say “no” to demands for even more. These wars instigated by neocons from both parties always end in disaster, but not until they produce much suffering in the countries they claim to want to liberate. They also further punish the middle and working class while enriching the wealthy and well-connected in the military-industrial complex. The cost of this latest war will be hidden in the cruelest tax – inflation – which disproportionately hurts the poor.

Will a new Speaker of the House solve our problems? No. Our biggest problem is our financial and moral bankruptcy, which has been brewing for over 100 years since the creation of the Fed and the rise of the Progressive era. But finally, we see Members responding to rising anger among the electorate over the financing of another forever war – this time with a nuclear superpower! Finally, we see members saying “enough” to demand for even more money for the US empire. It’s a good start and we should do all we can to encourage it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...solve-bigger-problem