You could read the article. The majority threshold is based on seats, not members.
The spate of early departures means that Republicans can soon only afford to lose one single vote when all lawmakers are present and voting, since 216 votes would constitute a majority.
I get it’s about defects on individual votes, but Jeffries isn’t going to become speaker without an actual majority. Anything short of an actual majority just means Republican control of legislation becomes more tenuous, not that Democrats will take control.
It’s possible that a few Blue State GOPs would cross Party lines to vote for him.
Sampe quote. “I am a proud ronald Reagan Republican. I remember when Reagan and Tip O’Neil would fight over a bill, then reach a mutually acceptable compromise. I’ll happily step away from the likes of Lauren Bobert in the name of civility.”
I’m not getting excited until it actually happens. I’m burnt out being edged by the news for almost 8 years that Trump was on the verge of being held accountable. I’m done. Hope it’ll happen, but I expect nothing and I expect this whole article to be a completely pointless waste of energy by the time elections roll around. I would fucking love to be wrong.
So theoretically a dem could vote to vacate right now and they could potentially do it? Though I imagine Republicans would be incredibly offended they didn’t call the vote and uninamously vote against.
Not that I want them to win at all, but I think losing the house would be a godsend to the Republicans. It would be yet another fire under the asses of voters to “save America” from the Democrats…
I’m so sick of all of this. I’m so mad my candidate lost…
I think losing the house would be a godsend to the Republicans. It would be yet another fire under the asses of voters to “save America” from the Democrats…
How would that logic work?
GOP Reps: “You need to vote us Republicans in so we get majority control of Congress !”
GOP voters: “err, we did. You guys quit in massive droves after passing the least amount of legislation in history. So you didn’t do your jobs, then you quit, and you want us to vote you back in? Won’t you just quit again?”
you are making a massive fatal flaw in logic in this comment: you’re assuming repubitard voters have enough braincells to use logic, or object permanence from more than 1 week ago
they only ever react to whatever the current fox news outrage is
They don’t care about what actually happens in the government. They would happily get torched under a flamethrower if they could hold a couple of immigrants down underneath them while it happens.
Or, as my grandfather used to say, and my boss when I was a teenager, “I’m a Republican. I vote for the nominee.”
Mostly because republican voters are absolute dipshits with the memory of a goldfish who believe everything they’re told on right wing TV without a second thought
I’m not so certain I’m having fun watching the GOP implode any longer. Laughed my ass off for some time, but as they get more desperate, they’re getting more radical.
Wouldn’t surprise me the least if these early retirements were all planned so that Dems get house control few months before elections, can’t accomplish anything with it because bunch of them are just as useless (double agents?) as republicunts, and republicunts get to blame all the inactivity over these two years on dems and everyone will eat it up
Do Democrats want to take the speakership at this point? They may not be able to get much done between now and the next congress, anyway. Why not let Republicans continue lopping their own limbs off with a chainsaw?
They can push proper funding bills through which would help calm investors and improve the economy/lower inflation which would help next election a ton.
Back in 2016, after the election, the NY Times put together a panel discussion with the creators of all the top TV political shows. Veep, The West Wing, Scandal, and others. Every producer and writer questioned said the same thing; if they’d had a fictional character say that the “liked soldiers who didn’t get captured” on a show the netowrks and advertisers would demand that the character be hated and despised by every American.
I don’t believe he would actually deport anything close to even 1 million people. Maybe I’ll bite my words… but the economic impacts would be massive. Inflation would shoot up.
Try working on any large scale construction projects without illegals. Costs go up dramatically.
For example, lemme talk about an industry I have experience in. Let’s say Comcast or AT&T wants to build a fiber optic network in a city.
They hire a prime contractor to do this. They pay something, let’s say $10 a foot of fiber. That prime contractor has to make sure everybody that works for them is a legal citizen. Comcast has rules - can’t hire illegals.
But what happens? That prime contractor hires some subcontractors. And those subs hire more subs. It becomes a little tree branch which each lower branch having less and less regulations until you reach the bottom where Juan and Jose are the ones actually digging the potholes and pulling the fiber cable through the pipe.
This is why Comcast is able to pay $10 a foot. Because Juan and Jose are happy working for $150 a day.
Americans doing that amount of hard labor would cost much more. You would have to pay taxes, workers comp, overtime, much higher base salary, etc. All sorts of things you don’t really gotta worry about when you have Juan and Jose doing it.
That $10 a foot can easily double.
And that’s just fiber optic cable. Imagine all construction, landscaping, etc shooting up in price. That’s inflation baby.
Trump’s whole shtick is economy. I have a feeling he’ll do the bare minimum and then advertise it as the biggest deportation campaign in history. Sort of like his wall.
The biggest best wall in the world but it actually barely covers 52 miles in 2000 miles of border.
I work in Florida. What happened is there was a sort of mass exodus initially and then everyone slowly started trickling back when they realized the law had no teeth.
It was meant more as political theater and not really enforced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been arrested to this day.
Of course, I agree with you. They are playing with fire. They ultimately represent business interests and those business interests can be hurt very badly should some true ideologue populist politician rise into power.
Trump (and mini-Trump aka DeSantis) is a conman pretending to be a Jesus. What if an actual MAGA Jesus shows up? One who believes in what he’s preaching and actually has the capacity to enforce it?
The existence of a presidential pardon blows my mind. It assumes that some miscarriage of justice has occurred and the president is able to detect it in a way that the legion of criminal justice administrators could not. America has devolved into crony capitalism.
time.com
Oldest