About the Speaker of the House

[TuskMoar]

Is it possible that the democratic house members could recruit some moderate reasonable republican to run? He would only need what? a dozen or so republican votes to become speaker?

I am sure this has been discussed before, but i have not seen it and thought a lot about this.

[unblock]

1. It's is possible in theory, but only if that theory allows Republican defections

Republicans can be very fractious, but are infamous for marching in lock step when it matters. Plus, they think democrats are evil, so joining such a coalition would probably be political suicide for then.

And if it did somehow succeed, that speaker would be completely ineffective as it would be impossible to hold together such a coalition. And everyone knows this so why vote for such a speaker in the first place?

So, while it's quite fun to imagine some of these scenarios, I think they're all quite unlikely to happen.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. Why should we help them?

I say let them show just how dysfunctional and idiotic they are by never picking a Speaker.