So, Allen West fell 212 votes short of becoming SOTH

[Capt. Obvious]

I blame the Communists.

The official vote count, via TPM's Brian Beutler:

Boehner 220

Pelosi 192

Labrador 1

Lewis 1

Cantor 3

West 2

Powell 1

Jordan 1

Walker 1

Cooper 2

Amash 1

Dingell 1

Present 1

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/john-boehner-re-elected-speaker-of-house

[AngryAmish]

1. Fuck

That would have been fun. In a terrifying way. Do you think he would have put a gun to the head of a recalcitrant committee chair?

[demwing]

5. If West had some how managed to win

I would double triple the Secret Service on the Pres and VP.

I'm not worried about what West would do (though maybe I should be...), I'm worried about what the Tea Partisans would do with him just two heartbeats from the White House.

[annatee33]

2. I did not know anybody could be speaker

Putting my hat in the ring now! I will bring my guitar and rock and roll their happy asses to compromise! Or I'll get all Sid Vicious on them!

[FSogol]

3. That's 2 elections in a row that West has lost now.

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Better luck next time, NOT

[julian09]

7. Cantor probably voted for himself. nt

[PoliticAverse]

29. Cantor actually voted for Boehner. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

4. HA! Cantor got one more than West.

Does that make him House Majority Leader again?

[Capt. Obvious]

6. Representative Present only received 1 vote

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Is there a list of who voted for whom?

I'm just curious to see who voted for Dingell.

[LisaLynne]

9. Dingell. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. That's odd, he can't actually want the job.

Maybe he's still pissed at Nancy for giving his Energy & Commerce chair to Waxman.

[PoliticAverse]

31. Jim Matheson voted for Dingell

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55564549-90/boehner-congress-democratic-john.html.csp

[Amonester]

10. Wonder just who R these two psychopaths... nt

[NoPasaran]

36. I think one of them was Louis Gohmert (R-Crazytown)

[Historic NY]

11. What happened to the Palin insurgency?

[PoliticAverse]

28. It was a figment of some people's imagination... n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

12. We should have gotten all the (D)s to vote for him too....

Maybe then enough (R)s would have peeled away from Boner for us to have a Speaker who is not even in The House anymore.

How much fun would that have been?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Wait, someone voted for a Labrador?

I don't blame them. Probably has the most brains out of any of the Republicans.

[Bucky]

15. We have yella dog and blue dog Democrats. I guess they have black dog Republicans

They keep dropping turds around the House.



No, wait, that wouldn't be a separate species.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. And they said there were no black Republicans....nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. Call the Kennel Club. I want to see his papers (nt)

[Bucky]

25. If you don't count the only black Senator in the United States.

[samsingh]

27. cute dog picture

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. lol

[Bucky]

14. Unless SOTH stands for

Shit On The Heel of democracy.

[RomneyLies]

17. The threshhold became lower due to only 427 Reps voting.

The threshhold moved down to 214 needed to win instead of 217.

The six sitting it out were Democrats.

That's how Boehner was insured victory because to defeat Boehner, 21 Republicans needed to jump ship and all they had going into the vote were "20 solid votes".

In fact, 5 of those twenty didn't even vote on the first round. When it became obvious what was happening, Michelle Bachmann put Boehner over the top.

[Capt. Obvious]

19. I wonder if Boehner will punish her anyway?

[RomneyLies]

21. I was wrong, SIX of the Twenty didn't vote.

It was Blue Dog Dem, Jim Cooper, who voted for Colin Powell.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. That's only two more votes that I got...(nt)

[Capt. Obvious]

22. Representative Present pulls rank on you

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. I'd have received more votes if only I'd been a bigger asshole

Which in my case is pretty damned hard to do.

[samsingh]

26. he shouldn't give up

[Drunken Irishman]

32. My congressman voted for Dingell because he doesn't like Nancy Pelosi.

[Mister Ed]

33. I wish Present could have made a stronger showing.

I think she or he would have gotten a lot more done as Speaker than Boehner has, or will.

[spanone]

34. don't you have to actually be a member of congress to be the speaker? call me kwazy...

[Capt. Obvious]

35. No actually

I was stunned to learn this a couple of days ago from Stinky The Clown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2114834

And he was correct.

The Constitution does not require that the speaker be an elected Member of Congress, but no non-member has ever been elected to the office.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

[Jamaal510]

37. So Pelosi actually got 192 votes?

I didn't know a member of one party could be Speaker when the House is being led by the opposite party.