Jordan Activates Right-Wing Pressure Campaign in Push to Win Speakership

[highplainsdem]

Source: NY Times

Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in the way of his election.

Even after Mr. Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post on Friday, he remained far short of the 217 votes he needed to win the gavel, with scores of his colleagues refusing to back him.

In efforts to close the gap, lawmakers and activists close to him have taken to social media and the airwaves to blast the Republicans they believe are blocking his path to victory and encourage voters to browbeat them into supporting Mr. Jordan.

It is an extraordinary instance of Republican-on-Republican fighting that underscores the divisions that have wrought chaos inside the party, paralyzing the House of Representatives in the process. Several of Mr. Jordan’s supporters have posted the phone numbers of mainstream G.O.P. lawmakers they count as holdouts, encouraging followers to flood the Capitol switchboard with calls demanding they back Mr. Jordan — or face the wrath of conservative voters as they gear up for primary season.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/us/house-speaker-republicans-jordan.html

[Jim__]

1. No one with any integrity would give in to that kind of pressure.

Do any republican representatives have any integrity?

[azureblue]

10. surely you jest

They can't even spell the word, much less know what it means, much less have any.

I smell a backfire - Pervy Jim's buddies will lean too hard, maybe even make veiled threats of violence, and House GOPers will decide for sure they will not vote for Jim. Who knows, maybe yet another GOP circular firing squad..

[PortTack]

2. The "brow beating" and social media nonsense is just so tired. The hard no 20 gqp don't like

The guy, never have and will never vote for him.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. What's Jordan threatening? To primary them?

There's NO MONEY IN THE RNC b/c it spent the money on Trump's attorneys. (Note, plural. Attorneys.)

[keithbvadu2]

4. Gym J should be seeking Dennis Hastert's endorsement.

[Zambero]

8. I seek Gym as Hastert's cell mate

[vlyons]

5. Bully

[Zambero]

6. I have emailed my "moderate" GOP rep

Asking that he refuse to cast a vote for Jordan under any circumstances, and to consider supporting a member of his caucus who would abide by their oath to abide by the U.S. Constitution and its provision for a peaceful transfer of power. Suggest that others with a relatively sane GOP rep to do same.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. If Gym Jordan becomes Speaker, Trump will set up shop adjacent to Capitol Hill

More noise than we've heard in awhile.

[kimbutgar]

9. Even if you try to polish a turd it's still a turd

Jordan is a large stinky turd.

[azureblue]

16. But he's Trump's Turd!

NT

[ratchiweenie]

11. You know if he becomes speaker it will be 24/7 what did he know and when did he know it.

There are too many of those athletes who said they told him and he did nothing about it. They can't all be lying. It will be a catastrophe for the party. So good. Hope he wins.

[paleotn]

24. Part of me agrees with you.

[Novara]

12. So he expects to win by threatening members of his own party

It figures.

[Attilatheblond]

13. Yep "right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker" sounds like..

..Unleash the blackmail dossiers in Trump's voice.

[Jarqui]

14. It is a Trump tactic

If Trump's behind Jordan ...

The problem might be that Jordan seemed to need a lot of votes (50?)

I'm sure Cheney and other Republicans behind the scenes are trying to counter those efforts.

It is appalling to me that Jordan even has a shot.

[Nutgraf48]

15. Sauce for the Gander

Just keep in mind...even if Gym wins the gavel, it still takes only one House member to motion for his ouster.

[TeamProg]

17. They eat their own.

They eat their own.
Republicans doing what they do best.

“Their own” means:


Their party members.
Our nation
National security
Education
Healthcare
The underpaid
The overworked
Children’s health
Families

[Gore1FL]

18. I bet some will cave to it, but this approach would seem to ensure he never gets the full 217. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Is this the GOP's best? Third in line to the President?

Link to tweet

🔥He has NOT written a line of legislation in his 17 years in Congress.
🔥He’s an obstructionist at every turn, wasting taxpayer money on the Oversight and Judiciary Committees, refusing to comply to his own legal subpoena
🔥He is an election denier and a fraudster to that end
🔥He is a founder of hardline Freedom Caucus
🔥He proudly claims to talk to Trump on the phone daily

Seriously?

[andym]

20. The thinking is that moderates are more likely to cave than extremists

by the very definition that moderates are more likely to compromise to achieve moderate goals. That said the "moderate" Republicans in swing districts are not likely to be successfully primaried by ultra-conservatives given the composition of their districts.

[paleotn]

23. Agreed. The one thing about congress people. They love their jobs and will do a lot to keep them.

A number of R's in middling districts are well aware that Gym's potential antics will cost them their seats in 2024.

[maxrandb]

21. The beatings will continue until morale improves

Expect dozens of mini-January 6s at his "fellow" Retrumplicans district offices.

"Vote for Gym or we'll hang you"!

[paleotn]

22. Ain't got the votes.

No one has the votes without Dem cooperation. Period. EOM.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. NEW low for the Republican Party?

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Gym Jordan is an insurrectionist

Link to tweet

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Jacket Off Gym. Fuck you you fascist

[Snackshack]

28. That headline is wrong...

Technically correct but realistically it is DJT that is pressure cooking all things in the way of Jordan getting speakership. Because while not impossible, there’s a ray or 2 of sunlight keeping it alive still but most likely DJT will not be SotH however if Jordan gets it then it is the same difference.

The DA in Georgia just wrote Jordan telling him in no uncertain terms he was “abusing his power” as chair of house judicial ctm and he needs to stay in his lane.

Personally I think DA Willis should have taken a different tack and kept just throwing procedure after procedure and process after some more procedure followed by precedent as the gop/McConnell did/does effectively during PBO’s 2 terms and now to drag out or string along the country and keep Jordan busy doing nothing. That way even as judiciary ctm. chair he won’t have time to do real damage elsewhere.

I don’t know that Jordan as SofH has anymore oversight on the actions of DA Willis to obstruct but if it does the Dems should probably engage on the side of and benefit for the country instead of what they just did in siding w/ gaetz and support the current drama that may look like a bunch of immature, idiots on the school play ground and be funny haha but it is not.

The United States of America’s government has become unfit to lead and that is the very foundation the country rests on. We sat back and watched this same discontinuity and chaos come from Russia back in the 90’s and we knew that was the end of the Cold War and them but Russia didn’t. I remember reading the same framing of news about Russia and that it was a hiccup and they would get back up on their feet and things would be okay…

No, that didn’t happen and when the fall came in a weird twist of irony the vacuum created by the very corruption and incompetence in governance that had brought Russia up too then over the breaking point was filled by an even bigger corrupt and incompetent governance on steroids, it’s institution's did not save it ours will not either especially if they are not used.

I highly recommend listening to G. Kirschner’s podcast if you don’t already. Our institutions are not robust enough to absorb the chaos in 2024 as we barely did in 2020. As Kirschner asked, pleaded DOJ please take a swing at accountability. There are many gop members of the house who participated in and still to this day support the “insurrection” (not my choice of word, Federal Judge’s choice) of J6…Jordan is one of those gop members that DOJ has decided to pass on just like gaetz and his sex trafficking…. hobby, I guess now that Garland decided not to pursue.

[PlutosHeart]

29. Positioning his self

so that when Orangina's case about Presidential Privilege (forgot the legal name for this) goes to the SC it will all be in place.

That is my take.

I cannot express my dismay today after listening to Jack the Podcast. Am sick to my stomach.

[czarjak]

30. Throwing crap against the wall is always a good start. Getting sticky with it.

[BlueIdaho]

31. So being an even bigger asshole

Is not a winning strategy? Who could have ever guessed…