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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Speaker Selection Process: Miss America On a sinking Titanic with Norovirus.
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New Speaker Selection Process: Miss America On a sinking Titanic with Norovirus. (Original Post)
lindysalsagal
Sep 2015
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)1. This seems apropos
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)4. ROFL
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. Intrinsic incompetence at work.
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)3. It's entirely possible the entire rest of the rest of the 114th Congress will consist of NOTHING but
vote after vote for who will hold the Speaker's gavel.
It takes 218 votes to elect. about 37 Republicans were prepared to stage a coup over Planned Parenthood, with the potential of another 11 joining them.
There are 188 Democrats and 247 Republicans in the 114th Congress.
The baggers won't give an inch and the standard GOP congresscritters don't want to cut a deal with Pelosi or let a nutball hold the gavel.
Stalemate.