Been watching C-SPAN in the US House of Representatives trying to elect a speaker. Last time that there was more than one vote to get a speaker was in 1923. This figures, the author of this political madness, Donald Trump seems to be a law and tax evading crook worthy of the 1920s or 1930s US.
progressive republicans versus the majority of conservative republicans, and progressive republicans, and progressive republicans finally went along after nine ballots and elected conservative mainstream frederick gillette as the speaker. this also marked a decline in the status of progressivism within the republican party and the rise of the solidly conservative republican party of the 1920s and beyond. the current fight is not about principle at all. it is about how far the republican party is going to go in launching a vendetta against joe biden and other democrats, and how far the republican party is going to go in efforts that mirror the attempts in 2020 to sabotage american democracy by overturning a fair
the rebels, the renegades in his party were from the left. they were progressive republicans. they withheld their votes from him on that first ballot. allies immediately moved to a second ballot. didn t get it on the second ballot. they went to a third. didn t get it. went to a fourth, didn t get it. took them until late in the day and at that point, they made a motion to adjourn. they tried again the next day. failed a new more times. they took three days and nine ballots, but the last time we were in this territory, gillette did end up winning. he granted enough concessions to win. so the strategy then was what you re talking about now. don t adjourn, this is what mccarthy people are talking about. don t adjourn. try to keep this going. try to wear down these republicans. we did not vote for him on the first ballot, but looking at the map, we did see all 212 democrats vote for jeffries. no renegades vote for someone
gillette. fun looking guy. night tail oor had to go throug nine rounds of ballots. a battle with progressive republicans at the time. nothing like this has happened since then. 100 years. what about the last time, republican speakers, i don t think people remember what happened in 1923. obviously john boehner, paul ryan, familiar names to our audience? right. reminder, this is a tough job and seems to be getting tougher, particularly for republicans. you mentioned john boehner, paul ryan. the last two speakers quit their positions. these are broadly respected guys. ryan, policymaker. boehner, dealmaker. constantly corralling cats in their caucus and one quote from john boehner hammers home the problem that kevin mccarthy seems to be facing. wrote in his memoir under new rules of crazy town i may have been speaker but i didn t hold