Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
Let me get this straight. Jordan and all them set an artificial rule that nobody’s going to go out there and be voted on unless they have the votes. Scalise decides to bow out because he cannot get the votes locked in before the actual vote. Then Jordan and them dispense with this rule they created, go to the floor, and immediately start going through what they were allegedly trying to prevent days later?
Wow.
Why… if I didn’t know any better I would think you are accusing them of being hypocrites.
I mean I get why but it’s still baffling. It was a reasonable rule too! Why go through all this embarrassment? My guess is Jordan just wanted to get Scalise out and now he wants to weaponize the public process to build pressure on holdouts.