Hell, I contend that a Speaker approval should require a 2/3 majority
Be careful there. The kind of wheeling and dealing you selling your soul that would be needed to do to get some of the Dems on board just to elect a speaker would destroy everything.
Or no need to wheel and deal. Just a GOOD candidate, one the overwhelming majority can respect, despite disagreeing opinions. After all, the Speaker in reality, doesn't hold that much power, or at least shouldn't... just the officer tasked with presiding over proceedings to maintain order. Of course the optics of power have grown seemingly every year for decades... an unfortunate development, imo.
But the PEOPLE deserve consensus, not 51% bullying from either party. Ensuring that, requires better rules in place.
If these assholes in DC can't govern like rational adults, and can't figure out a way to find a consensus Speaker, then WE deserve for the government to remain powerless.
There is still ways to go before we can have a clean government where everyone puts their constituents first and act in good faith. Until then, the show must go on.
Be careful there. The kind of wheeling and dealing you selling your soul that would be needed to do to get some of the Dems on board just to elect a speaker would destroy everything.
Or no need to wheel and deal. Just a GOOD candidate, one the overwhelming majority can respect, despite disagreeing opinions. After all, the Speaker in reality, doesn't hold that much power, or at least shouldn't... just the officer tasked with presiding over proceedings to maintain order. Of course the optics of power have grown seemingly every year for decades... an unfortunate development, imo.
But the PEOPLE deserve consensus, not 51% bullying from either party. Ensuring that, requires better rules in place.
If these assholes in DC can't govern like rational adults, and can't figure out a way to find a consensus Speaker, then WE deserve for the government to remain powerless.
There is still ways to go before we can have a clean government where everyone puts their constituents first and act in good faith. Until then, the show must go on.
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