Multiple members emerged from the House GOP’s speaker forum on Tuesday saying they don’t see either candidate being any closer to having the votes needed to secure the gavel on the floor.
Driving the news: “No one is close to 217,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said after Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pitched members on why they believe they should be the next speaker.
Literally the job of a Congressperson is listening to other points of view and coming up with common ground to find workable solutions to complex problems.
On paper. The reality for the last 20 years is that it’s for handing out tax breaks, bailouts and deregulation to the rich – a job they were groomed for since their earliest days at their very expensive schools.
Now the job is apparently becoming nothing more than figuring out ways to abuse and exploit the rules in order to hold the entire body of government hostage until you get your way.
Look at the actual history and not the ‘founding fathers’ myth. Before WW2 created the Military-Industrial Complex we all know and love, people really thought that different ways of making money were mutually exclusive. The fight over minting silver backed money was a huge issue [Cross of Gold ring any bells]
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