only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker
the way to get a worse deal than the one mccarthy is offering right now. any consensus speaker that the names that ro khanna mentioned, the other names floating around as potential speaker, they are not going to accept any of the demands that the conservatives have let alone this watered down version that kevin mccarthy is trying to push. they re going to take that slim house republican conference backwards in terms of the leverage that they have. they ll adjust the ratios of democrats and republicans on committees to water down republican strength if this is going to be some sort of bipartisan speaker situation. conservatives have to be careful that they don t overplay their hand and ends up in a speaker that puts them in a worse position. neil: the numbers are not official official. but for the sixth vote here, we have almost idea kay to what were the prior five where you have a hakeem jeffreys the
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the new congress begins next week. republicans will hold the majority in the house. just barely, by an inch. this year s mid-terms were not the red wave many thought it was going to be. what margin is mccarthy working with at this point? he is working with such a thin majority. republicans got 222 seats. among first-time speakers, i went back and looked, it is the smallest majority in 70 years. you have to go back to 1953 to find a smaller first-time potential speaker for majority. you can see some of the more recent first-time potential speakers in the chart that we have that essentially showed the majority that kevin mccarthy is working with smaller than paul ryan or john boehner or nancy pelosi. you have to go back to hastert to get the same level. with the majority, very small, which is why there s all this
that s absolutely nonworkable, nongovernable, non-starter. the best thing kevin mccarthy has going for him is no one its wants the job. the job is hard for a reason, and they do not the person who can put together that caucus, that list is still very small. so even though he is a wounded speaker, a potential speaker going in who is going to have to make up a various tight amount of votes to get that job, what he can say is there is very few people who can get those numbers, even if they re you know who was one person today? of course speaker pelosi, who as she has spoken you were present at the white house she spoke about the idea how proud she was to have as one of her final acts as speaker of the house be in support of the marriage act. it was amazing because it was her first speech in the house when she came to the house of representatives was about the aids epidemic and about these issues. of course she represented san francisco. and this was the lgbtq community was a