The Real timschochet

Looks like there may be multiple votes just as in January. But most pundits seem to believe that Jordan will become Speaker more out of exhaustion than anything else. Even Republicans who don’t like Jordan know that SOMEBODY has got to be Speaker. Who knows? From my perspective there’s very little to like about the guy. But I’m always willing to be pleasantly surprised. Right now the Senate is pushing through a bill that gives aid to Israel, funds the military, spends more on border security, and gives aid to Ukraine. Quite obviously the idea here is to offer 3 items that the hardliners are in favor of in order to get the 4th one in there. Jordan’s first test will be whether he agrees to this or blows it up.

Yes I have thought that for some time. These are the same folks who supported MAGA candidates in primaries with the hope they would lose general elections without being concerned about the damage that was doing to the Republican Party and thus the nation. A lot of them are jerks and I don’t trust them at all. As a liberal I prefer their positions to those of conservatives, but that doesn’t make them good people.

I think the House Dems should have voted for McCarthy. I wrote that here. But as far as deserving stuff sorry I don’t really think like that, if Jordan is bad for the country it won’t be the politicians who will suffer.

I didn’t think I was being rude in the OP. Sorry if you fell otherwise. Normal is whatever a majority believes, if the majority of the country is now anti-woke (no way of knowing how true this is) then that is the normal position.

No. I don’t like it. I’m committed to helping Ukraine and that may not continue, Also I don’t live for scoring points against those who I disagree with,

OK? What did I get wrong? And will you be happy if Jordan wins as expected?

Maybe. Except that I wrote MAGA AND modern day conservatives. I believe that most of those who post here are one or the other or both. Wouldn’t you agree? (I would include modern libertarians as modern conservatives since, although they still disagree on social issues, they’re in general agreement about illegal immigration and nationalism , whereas old school libertarians had very different positions on these issues.)