It's official: GOP votes itself two more years of kicking John Boehner around

[kpete]

Source: Daily Kos

THU JAN 03, 2013 AT 10:21 AM PST
It's official: GOP votes itself two more years of kicking John Boehner around
by Jed Lewison

John Boehner has secured the majority he needed to be reelected as Speaker of the House of Representatives and spend the next two years getting his butt kicked by the craziest bunch of Republicans to serve in Congress since ... well, about an hour ago, when the 112th Congress was still in session.

Congratulations, dude. May the next two years be your last two years in the majority.

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[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Damn! I was looking forward to a vicious round of votes

before the pukes finally settled on the new speaker. Anything that makes them look even more ridiculous is pure entertainment!

[dwigthreeD]

7. Is Bonner

even sober this morning? tia

[earthside]

2. By one vote, right?

Some mandate.


Rather a pathetic showing for ol' John.

[onenote]

3. More than one, could have been two or three. Can't be sure at this point.

According to the Clerk of the House, to be elected Speaker, "a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes cast—which may be less than a majority of the full House because of vacancies, absentee Members, or Members who vote "present." If no candidate receives the majority of votes, the roll call is repeated until a majority is reached and the Speaker is elected."

Since only 433 members were sworn in at this point, 217 would have taken the speakership if no one voted present. I have yet to see a breakdown of the vote that indicates how many, if any, "present" votes were cast. If there were five "present" votes, then the number needed to be elected would be 215. Plus, under House rules and procedures, there are ways for a member to "change" his or her vote at the last minute. Will have to see what the final total ends up to know for certain what the margin was.

[onenote]

4. Final vote: 426 votes cast. Boehner got 220. Needed 214. Won by six.

John Dingell got one vote?!

[PoliticAverse]

5. He actually won with 6 spare votes.

426 votes were cast, meaning 426/2 = 213 + 1 = 214 votes were necessary to win. Boehner got 220 votes, so he
had 6 excess votes.

[coldbeer]

6. Did you hear the wailing baby?

I thought for a second it was the Tea Party singing.

[Berlin Expat]

9. Actually, the wailing baby

you're hearing is Freepers, who are wailing in unison in an epic episode of butthurt, especially after so many of them were duped by Breitbart's "news" site (if your definition of news is making s--t up) that Boehner couldn't possibly be re-elected as Speaker.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

MOAR TEARZ! I WANT MORE WINGNUT TEARZ!!!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Moar!!!

So salty, so sweet, sez the kitteh . . .

[freshwest]

12. MOAR TEARZ! I WANT MORE WINGNUT TEARZ!!!

[SoapBox]

8. Barf...

chain smoking, heavy drinking, constant golf playing, ORANGE freak.

What a disgrace.

[coldbeer]

11. Well, he hit my soft spot, and we can belly up to the bar.

When Nancy gave him that wooden hammer the first thing
he said was, "Every two beers at this hour", I liked that. Wished
I could play it again, think I missed something.

[freshwest]

13. I'd rather the weeping Orangeman than that sleazy Cantor...

Seeing that repugnant slime would end me...

[japple]

14. Here's looking at you kid...

[savebigbird]

15. I don't like him. n/t