{"id":148945,"date":"2023-10-24T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148945"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:55:28","slug":"new-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148945","title":{"rendered":"New speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Well, we still have no Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

Blame it on Republican defectors. Blame it on weather. Doesn’t really matter. Until there is a Speaker, the House is more or less dead in the water.<\/p>\n

It all started when the former speaker, Kevin McCarthy from California, was ousted. Since then we have watched two candidates, Steve Scalise from Louisiana, and Ohio’s Jim Jordan fail to garner the needed votes.<\/p>\n

Now that Jordan has dropped out after three failed votes, we have a rogue’s gallery of pretenders to the throne.<\/p>\n

The candidates are as follows:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom Emmer, Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mike Johnson, Louisiana<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Jack Bergman, Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Gary Palmer, Alabama<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Byron Donalds<\/strong>, Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Kevin Hern, Oklahoma<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022Dan Meuser<\/strong>, Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Austin Scott, Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022Pete Sessions<\/strong>, Texas<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a national scale – who the heck are these guys? Bunch of has-beens and never-wases?\u00a0 Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n

I am hearing a familiar echo – remember Obamacare? The Republicans ran on an incessant drum-beat of “dump Obamacare”, until push came to shove and they had to present their idea of what should take its place. Crickets. Nothing. Not even ‘Go back to what we were doing before’. Zee-roh plan.<\/p>\n

Now we have “dump the Speaker” (which they successfully did) and who is going to replace him? Who isn’t going to piss off the hard-core conservatives, Trumpers, neverTrumpers, or anyone else likely to have the critical votes? This isn’t a coherent political party, it’s a bloc of self-absorbed ideologists without the slightest thread of leadership in the whole damn group. Getting hard to support the party when the party spins like a golden retriever puppy chasing its own tail, only not as cute.<\/p>\n

I remember when my dyed-in-the-wool yellow dog Democrat father-in-law refused to vote in 1980 – he wasn’t going to vote Reagan or Republican, but you could have dipped him in some serious fecal matter before he would have supported Carter after the draft-dodger amnesty thing. Let’s just say I understand his position much better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we still have no Speaker of the House. Blame it on Republican defectors. Blame it … New speaker<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148946,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945\/revisions\/148946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}