The GOP has 222 seats in Congress

[edhopper]

and can't even elect a Speaker.
Nancy Pelosi had 222 seats after 2020 and managed to pass the Biden agenda.
Which Party can't get their shit together?

[Malmsy]

1. 20 holding 200 hostage, mostly because they want Republicans to be ultra-deluxe assholey

for the next 2 years, not just deluxe assholey.

[secondwind]

2. They really don't want McCarthy. Bottom line.

[Thunderbeast]

3. As someone on MSNBC said yesterday...

"They don't want to negotiate. They don't want to trade their hostages for anything. THEY JUST LIKE TO HAVE HOSTAGES"!

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. They're fighting over WHO will be in charge of the further gutting of the middle class.

They're all elitist assholes who want wealth for themselves and will suppress everyone else because, as we all know is a lie, "there is not enough wealth to go around."

[ificandream]

4. This is why the GOP won't get a lot done these next two years. And they'll blame Dems.

But it'll be their own fault.

[edhopper]

7. And too many people

and too much of the MSM will buy into that narrative.

[Joinfortmill]

19. I think Biden will push back. He already is.

[Bucky]

5. It's fun watching the jackals pounce on their own, cause they love abusing the weak

But at some point some form of Schadenfreude Guilt is going to set in and the Democrats will feel compelled to rescue McCarthy or whatever other mainstream Republican ends up being the most tolerable compromise candidate they can deal with.

[True Blue American]

6. It is especially

Rewarding to see Jim Jordan show how spineless he is after his arrogant blustering over the years. He can not even get his choice of Speaker elected! What will he accomplish as Chairman of the Judiciary?

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. Gym Jordan is an attack dog. That's all he knows.

He wants the power to attack. And he'll get it for as long as Jack Smith doesn't lay a finger on him.

[True Blue American]

29. That is why Jordan will be so bad on

The Judicial committee!

[StClone]

8. Evidently

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[patphil]

9. Regardless of who eventually becomes Speaker, this group will hold the House hostage...

whenever they want to get their own way. This is a dictatorship enforced by just a small group of Representatives.
We are about to embark on an adventure in dysfunctional government, brought to you by the Republican Party. The only thing they will accomplish is multiple impeachments of various people...anyone they don't like, and multiple investigations into government agencies, employees, and, of course, Hunter Biden.
None of this will go anywhere.
They will also block as much legislation as they can.
It would seem that at some point the few sane, responsible Republicans in the House would tire of all this BS, and work with the Democrats.
I hope their electorate is paying attention over the next 22 months.

[Eyeball_Kid]

13. The GOP no longer pretends to favor democracy. They all want an oligarchy similar to

Russia's corrupt system. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO ATTEMPT COUPS UNTIL THE CONSTITUTION NO LONGER FUNCTIONS. Voting is a real problem for them because the voters have input. That's why they suppress votes. They try to go around Constitutional protections by looking for weak spots in the law, then widen those weak spots until voting is no longer effective as a method of self-governance. THEY ARE FASCISTS. Let's all remember that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. Directed by the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists network, Sinclair, and selected "social" media.

[AnnaLee]

11. Has anyone seen an estimate of this?

What percent of the US population is represented by the people in the now notorious 20 holdouts districts?

[ConstanceCee]

15. Yes

This is very good question. I hope somebody can do the math for us.

[moose65]

17. Well......

Congressional districts are supposed to be approximately the same in size, so it's just a matter of dividing:

20/435 = 0.0459, so it's less than 5 percent of the population.

That calculation leaves out the residents of DC, since they don't have representation in Congress.

[AnnaLee]

31. Thanks.

Actually it is more than I thought it would be. I should have remembered the representation is supposed to be, even if not really exactly achievable, the same for each district.

[ConstanceCee]

14. One Good Thing

In the meantime, we get to hear "Jeffries" over and over. A good head start for his future speakership.

[True Blue American]

30. 7th vote. McCarthy already losing. 8th vote expected.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Hardly surprising -- they have so much more real shit to deal with. nt

[Joinfortmill]

18. Shout from the mountain tops.

[Botany]

20. I don't think Nancy Pelosi ever lost when she whipped the vote.

[Mad_Machine76]

23. Minor challenges announced

but it never got near this state

[Botany]

24. Unlike McCarthy she can count the vote.

I think she said before McCArthy's run to be speaker of the House that he did
not have the votes.

[Mad_Machine76]

26. Yup

and we all know they can't govern either.

[Initech]

22. And yet the GOP owns the media and controls the narrative.

The night time pundits will get their marching orders and they'll find someway to blame us for this. Even though it's entirely their fault and largely the fault of Fox News as to how we got here.

[edhopper]

25. Waiting for them to ask

why Biden isn't fixing this.

[Mad_Machine76]

27. I think Andrea Mitchell already has

and Biden shut that down

[Blue Owl]

28. The GOP are clowns

And that MAGAts are so dumb they couldn't even figure that out if they were wearing giant shoes, a fake red nose, and circus makeup