wouldn't Chelsea Clinton be a great house speaker?

[reymega life]

because I see political ambitions in her

[Ocelot II]

1. No. How about someone who actually knows how the House operates?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. The biggest number you can imagine, times that. NT

[Amishman]

21. Agreed. Let's see her in a House seat for a decade or two first.

Then this merits discussion.

[tritsofme]

3. Not really? Maybe after she spends a decade or two in the House?

There’s a few folks who are actually members, who might be standing a few places in line closer, lol.

[Ocelot II]

4. Yes. No offense to Chelsea, she's done a lot of great charitable work,

but she's a rich hedge funder who has never held any elected office.

[TheProle]

7. +1

[enough]

5. Why? These things aren't determined by dynasty.

Ask again after she’s has a couple decades of actual experience.

[onenote]

6. People don't start their political careers as speaker.

And if she has political ambitions, fine. She should run for an office.

[Aristus]

8. Yeah, let's not be like the repukes.

Hey! I think that celebrity I like should run for a very high-responsibility public office that they don't know anything about!

No, thanks...

[Demsrule86]

9. No. She is not in the House.

[SCantiGOP]

12. doesn't have to be in the House

Actually doesn't even have to be a citizen. Law merely says that the House shall elect a person to be the Speaker every two years when they organize after an election.

[MichMan]

20. How can a non citizen be in the line of succession to the presidency ?

[SCantiGOP]

23. That is a real question

The only requirement in the Constitution is that the person receive a majority of the vote when the House organizes. It was the Presidential Succession Act in 1947 that put the Speaker as second in line after the VP, so they would need to be a citizen or they couldn’t serve as POTUS.

[BlackSkimmer]

10. So, anyone with "political ambitions" should be good to be Speaker of the House?

Am I reading you right?

[Hortensis]

11. :) As said, no.

There's no reason to think she has the special combination of talents a good speaker needs -- and to a really exceptional degree!, and we know she'd require years in the house to develop the experience.

Democratic house members elect the best speaker they can because their own political careers and achievement of the dreams they came to fulfill depends in part on how good the speaker is. And of course, how much that leader shares their own ideals and goals.

Future speakers also have to have a LOT of colleagues who like and admire them. Or in the Republlicans' case, fear them.

[milestogo]

13. She has no congressional experience.

[Effete Snob]

14. Lol right

This is one of those OP's that gets posted somewhere else to say "Look at what the silly libs are saying" almost as if, hmm...

[Gore1FL]

15. She should try to get elected to some things first. nt

[Celerity]

16. No.

[Model35mech]

17. Organizational and negotiation skills more important the AMBITION

I don't wish to offend, but, please, please think of capability and experience before naked ambition.

I'd say the same for ANY member of Congress presenting as a candidate for a Leadership role of House Dems.

[Boomerproud]

18. No, I pray she has the wisdom to stay completely out of the cesspool

that politics has become (and probably always has been). She can use her knowledge and talents for real change.

[FlyingPiggy]

19. I don't want a name to have these positions. I want people who have proven themselves

i want people like Pelosi who elicited fear from the gop.

[niyad]

22. Where do you see these political ambitions?

[we can do it]

24. Has she even been a city council person?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

25. Is this a

trick question ?

[Raine]

26. NO thanks, NO dynasties. 👎 nt