If Patrick McHenry was hoping to become the next Speaker

[BWdem4life]

He probably shouldn’t have evicted Pelosi and Hoyer from their offices.

He’ll get zero Democratic support.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. The acting speaker literally broke House Rules in kicking Nancy Pelosi out of her office

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[onenote]

5. And how do you suppose that rule would be enforced and by whom?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. It would require several sane Republicans, but such critters are extinct.

[canetoad]

11. Are not the rules

A matter for the Parliamentarian?

[onenote]

27. No. It's not a rule of the House. It's a republican conference rule.

It was adopted by the republicans, for the republicans. It is essentially an internal rule applicable to the republican conference, enforceable only by the republican conference and subject to amendment, waiver or simply being ignored by the republican conference if that's what they decide to do.

[canetoad]

28. Thanks for replying

I just read that elsewhere. Bugger!

[Ocelot II]

2. I don't think the Dems will be much inclined to help any of them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Sends a stupid signal.

Like these people are oblivious to political reality. I remember this dickhead from 20 years ago. Still a dickhead, with a wardrobe change.

[onenote]

4. No Repub speaker candidate will get any Democratic support

No Democrat voted for any of the repub nominees in 15 ballots in Jan. No Democrat voted to keep McCarthy from being ousted.

No. Democrats. Will. Vote. For. A. Republican. Speaker. Nomineee

[ZonkerHarris]

6. hahahahahahahahahahaha...let me catch my breath. Okay. hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dems would never ever ever vote FOR any RePube for Speaker.
We voted to remove Kevin when given a millisecond of a chance
Learn how it all works, please

[BWdem4life]

10. It is possible to disagree with someone

without being a jackass.

[ZonkerHarris]

22. You're the one who thinks Democrats will vote for a Republican speaker of the house

Now call me more names when you should be studying how things really work

[BWdem4life]

23. One was sufficient. nt

[ZonkerHarris]

24. Keep going

[BWdem4life]

25. Why, you trying to start an endless thread?

I have other commitments

[ZonkerHarris]

30. i hope one is a civics class about how political parties operate

[BWdem4life]

31. Oh snap

[ZonkerHarris]

32. crackle

[TeamProg]

34. Kindergarten "Civics" if there was such a thing. nt

[TeamProg]

33. Dems didn't vote FOR McCarthy, Dems voted to REMOVE him.

See how that works?

[rubbersole]

8. In a couple of months of vile repubs...

..talking smack about the evil repubs and always trying to blame dems, they will probably elect Jeffries out of sheer exhaustion. Enjoy 'going to go through some things' you treasonous pieces of shit.

[onenote]

29. The day the republicans elect a Democrat to be Speaker (or vice versa) is a day that will never come

[usonian]

9. Elected repubs seem to have this attitude: The more abuse you the more you'll love me.

Sound familiar? They’re abusers.

Kevin expected waves of love for killing Ukraine aid and single-handedly starting an “impeachment inquiry”

F them all.

[LiberaBlueDem]

12. More likely 4 repubs will make a deal with Dems

So they can get reelected and vote for Jefferies

[DFW]

13. They had better switch parties if they do.

And have nice jobs lined up in the private sector in case they lose their seats in 2024, which a very vengeful Republican Party will spend a LOT of money to make happen.

[LiberaBlueDem]

14. Becoming a Democrat is a great idea

All we need are 4

[DFW]

15. Probably won't happen, but in this case, they would have some cover

It would have to be Republican Reps from swing districts to begin with, and they could just tell their voters that a few crazies in their party perverted the whole process, and they can no longer caucus with a party that spends more time with theatrics than governing.

They would have to know before ever starting to think about such a move that a vengeful Republican Party would pull out all stops to see that they get defeated as Democrats next year, so they would need to have decent private sector jobs lined up for that case. I would think that for four or five people, Jeffries would have the connections to make that happen.

[LiberaBlueDem]

16. Yeah

They'd have to be the kind that put country first. Rare breed, that, especially republican types. But so much hangs on a good congress: Ukraine, global warming, the environment, health care, etc. etc

[DFW]

18. It would take a visionary to grasp that, and, as one of the great visionaries of the House noted:

All politics is local

--Speaker Tip O'Neill

[Shrek]

17. No Republican is going to vote for Jeffries

You might get a few to vote for someone like Cuellar, but Jeffries would never happen.

[struggle4progress]

19. RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ...

RULE I
The Speaker ...
Speaker pro tempore
8 ... (b) ... (3)(A) In the case of a vacancy in the Office of Speaker, the next Member on the list described in subdivision (B) shall act as Speaker pro tempore until the election of a Speaker or a Speaker pro tempore. Pending such election the Member acting as Speaker pro tempore may exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary and appropriate to that end ...

https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/5/3/5361f9f8-24bc-4fbc-ac97-3d79fd689602/1F09ADA16E45C9E7B67F147DCF176D95.118-rules-01102023.pdf

[kentuck]

21. Take heed.

"Speaker pro tempore may exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary and appropriate to that end ... "

[Hotler]

20. Need to send him a childs booster seat so he can see over the lectern. nt

[onenote]

26. The next speaker, whoever it is, won't get any Democratic support.

McHenry could've promised Pelosi a whole suite of offices and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference.