(January 14, 2024 at 5:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 13, 2024 at 12:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s starting to look as if the RR in Congress is looking around for (yet) another new Speaker.
Boru
On further reading, it looks as if this may not be as easy as they think (certainly not as easy as kicking out McCarthy). Johnson, for all his myriad faults, turns out to be pretty savvy, politically speaking - his willingness to work with House Democrats on the budget and other things may convince enough of them to vote to keep him if another motion to vacate is attempted.
This will also have the effect of nullifying the outsized influence of the MAGA faction in the House generally.
Boru
I would like to say something on the thing about the republicans wanting to vote him out just because he was willingly working with the democrats like those in the first place, as you may have said...
The republican party and the democrat party are two of the main parties of the same country. When one party controls one part of congress like either the house or senate, and the other party has control over something like the other, there is bound to be conflict, but with the two separate parts of congress being there in the first place, the only way for two conflicting parties who each control one part of congress to get anywhere for the government and the country is if they work together to any extent and try to find solutions to the goals they want to achieve.
What I am trying to say, is that the republicans do not seem to notice this, and are being selfish as I said before, and with that, you can't shut out an opposing party just because you don't like them. That is like wanting one's version of perfection to come true and shutting out the bad or anything that could "ruin" it just because one does not like them, even if they are not so bad. The fact that the republicans want to vote out Mike Johnson as speaker of the house is something I would call ludicrous for reasons I just said. The United States is not going to get anywhere if the republicans want to shut out the democrats because they don't like them, and additionally and potentially, vice versa. (It goes both ways) Also, the country would not get anywhere, or would even regress if the republicans controlled all of congress, or all parts of the government for that matter. Plus, we are supposed to be one country here, and there is a point of having two sides to balance things out.
The fact that at least the republicans do not seem to or do not want to recognize this and are too self-centered to work with the democrats is not something good for our country, I say.
