New Developments III

[Sabin]

Trump has spent the week endorsing Kevin McCarthy and arguing with anti-choicers online for being too extreme.

[Sonic Youth]

Q: What do you call doing the same thing over and over, expecting a new result?
A: A floor vote.

It's starting to get a little boring.

[Okri]

There's a fan fiction version of this that has 4 or 5 Republicans voting for Jeffries to scare the Republican hold outs in vote seven, with vote 8 turning on them miscounting and giving Jeffries the win.

But fan fiction isn't reality, alas.

[Sabin]

This is so embarrassing for them. Their only agenda is investigating the President's son's penis but they can't agree on who's gonna do it, and how, and when? Y'know, serious shit.

[Greg]

Republicans don't believe in government; and, by golly they're sticking to their principles!

[Sonic Youth]

For the first time in a century, the U.S. House takes multiple ballots to choose its Speaker.

Or not choose, as the case may be.

[OscarGuy]

Unlike the Israeli Knesset and Britain's parliament, they can't call for a new election for inability to create a governing coalition.

[Sabin]

McCarthy just lost his third vote.

[Greg]

For the first time in a century, the U.S. House takes multiple ballots to choose its Speaker.

[Sabin]

Launch of Trump’s 2024 campaign:

-called for the end of the constitution

-dinner out with Nazis

-released an NFT series

I would say this is going poorly but I don't know what plane of existence we live in anymore, tbh.

[Sabin]

It's going to be a mess. Most Democrats won't vote for her, but I see her siphoning the moderate Republicans or Independents that we need to win. Her stupid "Like most Americans, both parties blah blah blah" rhetoric will be appealing to them. But yeah, we're talking about a bloc of 5-15% and while Blake Masters was a dreadful candidate, he lost to Mark Kelly by 5%.

[taki15]

Considering that Sinema's favorables among Democrats were in the teens BEFORE pulling that stunt, I doubt that many of them will vote for her as an independent.

[OscarGuy]

Let's hope she does bow out, because she will siphon more votes from bipartisan fetishists and Dems than she will from Republicans. Even if she gets 20% of the vote, 15% from Dem and 5% from Republican, that's 45-35-20 (R-D-I). Republicans aren't the bipartisan fetishists. Borderline Dem voters are. If Gallego gets the nomination, which was certain before this, and she does run, then we lose the seat plain and simple.

[Sabin]

Okri wrote
I dunno, her polling seems awful - I do wonder if she even runs at all. There are two 2024 (nee) Democratic Senators I wanted to see primaried. She was one of them. And the other is Diane Feinstein. I think they have to run someone against Sinema, though.

They do have someone to run against Sinema. Ruben Gallego. He's very popular in my home state of Arizona. He's a virtual lock for the nomination.

I do think it's entirely possible that she just doesn't go through with the election and goes straight to lobbyist-ville.

[Okri]

I dunno, her polling seems awful - I do wonder if she even runs at all. There are two 2024 (nee) Democratic Senators I wanted to see primaried. She was one of them. And the other is Diane Feinstein. I think they have to run someone against Sinema, though.