"Jared Golden of Maine has voted for Tammy Duckworth for speaker."

[Nevilledog]

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Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
Jared Golden of Maine has voted for Tammy Duckworth for speaker. Duckworth is in the Senate.
12:52 PM · Jan 3, 2021

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Jared shoulda gone to Jared's... no wait... Tammy's...no wait... NANCY'S.

[ornotna]

2. Oy vey

[NYC Liberal]

3. To be fair, the Speaker doesn't have to be a member of the House.

It can be literally anyone. We could make Obama the Speaker if we wanted to.

[dweller]

5. How cool would that be

and 3rd in line for presidency...

✌🏻

[Dem4Life1102]

7. He is still ineligible

Being Speaker wouldn’t change that.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Ok, how does "Speaker Hillary Clinton" sound?

It would get some republicans even more tightly wound up.

[dweller]

9. I don't care

but it sure will keep the magats foaming at the mouth ...


✌🏻

[NYC Liberal]

21. He's ineligible to be elected, not to serve.

[Dem4Life1102]

22. No he is completely ineligible

if he were speaker the 3rd in line would be the president pro tempore of the Senate.

[NYC Liberal]

23. "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"

The 22nd Amendment only prohibits election.

[Dem4Life1102]

24. Well you can argue that to the Supreme Court

should it ever come up.

[MineralMan]

4. Morons Abound!

[highplainsdem]

6. Oh dear God...

[BainsBane]

10. She's a senator

She's not even in the House. Or do you mean Minority Leader?

[Hortensis]

11. Conor Lamb voted for "Jeffries" with Pelosi and McCarthy the choices. nt

[irisblue]

12. Marine Vet nominating another definitely bad ass Vet, yeah I can see his line of thought

Hope Sen Duckworth knew up front

[LisaL]

14. Duckworth is in the Senate.

She is not going to be a Speaker of the House.

[irisblue]

15. I know, I think he was giving honor to another Vet by the clearly will not happen event

[tritsofme]

13. Pelosi can lose up to six Democratic votes and still prevail.

[empedocles]

16. trump knew that the media would cover anything ridiculous in trump's final days - media

coverage, which trump arguably/historically needs tremendously.

Hopefully, the next 17 days will be limited to ridiculous sideshows - and not much further damaage.

[stillcool]

19. they can just run the tape...

over and over. Like they did with Reverend Wright, or Howard Dean.

[BGBD]

17. How about Democrats

in the House stop being cute. The majority is thin and we don't need to let "Speaker McCarthy" happen over being dumb.

[Towlie]

18. He also voted against Nancy Pelosi two years ago, but that time he picked a viable alternative.

 
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Wikipedia: Jared Golden

Golden was sworn in as U.S. Representative on January 3, 2019. During the election for Speaker of the House, he voted against Democratic Caucus nominee Nancy Pelosi, as he had pledged to do during his campaign, instead voting for Cheri Bustos of Illinois. On December 18, 2019, Golden voted for Article I of the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump but was one of three Democrats to vote against Article II.

[LisaL]

20. What valuable alternative?

Duckworth is in the Senate. She won't be a speaker of the House.