WP analysis: At the moment, not clear Nancy Pelosi has the votes to become Speaker

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Unless this changes, this is catastrophic and remember the Democratic Rep who said a speaker showdown on the first day means we kiss our new majority goodbye? What’s the end game here and desired outcome here? I can only assume it’s to give Trump complete control of the judiciary, executive, and legislative branches come 2021.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/pelosi-speaker-whip-count/?utm_term=.5f117615c0fa

[irresistable]

1. pointless hand-wringing

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2. They are playing games with

The future of the nation at the most perilous time in America’s History. Time for this fuckery to stop.

[irresistable]

5. Pelosi can handle this.

[Renew Deal]

3. There are a lot of good reasons why Pelosi shouldn't be speaker but,

This article is FUD. It doesn’t claim to know anything. There is no alternative running. I wouldn’t worry about it for now.

[NewsCenter28]

4. Yep we must always nominate a speaker that the GOP base is comfortable with

Doesn’t matter that Dotard doesn’t need the Dem base to be comfortable with him!

[pnwmom]

6. No one else is running. How many Dems want Kevin McCarthy to be speaker? n/t

[Hortensis]

7. Oh, didn't Nancy tell the WSJ what she knows?

What a meanie she is.

I'd be curious to know what throwing control of the house to someone its Republicans helped choose would do to the careers of those Democrats who did that, but we'll never get a chance to find out.
And we can't guess from the past because it never happened then either.

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8. There are a number of centrist who want to see her replaced.

The run at her from the right didn’t work out well last time. I still think it’s fair to at least have a debate about who will hold one of the most powerful political positions in the country.

[Kablooie]

10. Replaced with who? I haven't heard a single name mentioned as a potential candidate.

This sounds like a scheme cooked up and run by Republicans though I assume that's impossible.

Many agree that a change could be a good thing but only with the right person.
To just demand change without any specifics is suicidal.

[WeekiWater]

14. "To just demand change without any specifics is suicidal."

I see it as more politics as usual. I do think it's a bad move without a name leading the way. I like Pelosi in the position.

There was at least a name last time around. Ryan has been talked about again. Few want to see a shift to the right in our party.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. Oh FFS this again?

What. Slow news day?

[Squinch]

11. Let's do the hair on fire dance and get it over with.

[DFW]

12. That moment has passed. Things don't look too bad for her at the moment.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=0bkNXJG6MuWkrgSR44KwBQ&q=lighten+up+francis&oq=lighten&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.35i39j0i67j0i10l5j0j0i10l2.1430.2829..4605...0.0..0.218.816.7j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i203.w05V_KcT9q4

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13. I would give even odds or better that the chances of Pelosi being speaker are better than the odds

for Trump being re-elected. And I'm just some doofus in a small mountain town in deep red territory, so what do I know? But I think I'm right.