Clay Bennett for October 22, 2023

But for how long?

It would please me to think that common sense was why. But in fact, I think it’s just that the factions couldn’t reach compromise. The GQP has been selecting for legislators that can’t cooperate for a dozen+ years.

I bet that picture brings back bad memories to some Ohio State wrestlers.

I would love to think “common sense” will prevail; but I wouldn’t bet on it!!!

Common sense isn’t common with Rethugliecons.

Republicans proving again they have no rock bottom.

Common sense is an oxymoron to Republicans!

More than common sense. 20+ GOOPers got some backbone when they decided not to submit to the intimidation and bullying of Gym Showers and his band of nut jobs.

Now , Vote it out of office , enough of the crazy town show !

Common sense isn’t prevailing among House Republicons when so many still subscribe to the delusions that Traitor45 was cheated in 2020, that it’s okay to put the U.S. into default, that women and minorities don’t deserve the same rights elucidated to all in the Constitution. This was a blip caused more by Gym’s caustic personality and way of treating other Reps.

Scalise? Jordan?? Republicans are making “VACANT” look better every day.

Bombshell headline today…DailyMail.com can reveal that Joe Biden bought his six-bedroom Rehoboth Beach house in June 2017 for $2,744,001 cash The transaction was within weeks of a questionable text that Hunter Biden sent to a Chinese associate demanding to seal a deal worth $10million a year‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,’ Hunter wrote on WhatsApp

The only thing all in the GQP have in common is that they are against everything. Their first reaction when learning about something new to them is to hate it. None of them actually are for anything that could conceivably benefit our country and its citizens.

74 million, you can do better than this.

If you fall for the propaganda that lobbyists for the military industrial complex equal “common sense,” I guess this is accurate.

Not quite yet. Let’s see 5 GOP votes for Jeffries, then we’ll talk.

As an old song went.. don’t count your winnings till the dealing is done.

Common sense has prevailed,as the saying goes….at least for now….

The distressing part is 108 republicans were too afraid of the magats to vote against him in a voice ballot (3rd round). Secret ballot- only 86 magats (of the 194) truly support this reprehensible being.

When Gym Jordan lost, the Democrats going into 2024 lost too. He was an absolute gift to the Democrats. I believe the majority of the House Republicans saw that too.

If only we could see that “common sense” actually coming from GOP…… The R’s who actually possess it should speak a little louder, please.

^^^Daily Mail — isn’t that like the National Enquirer, only with a Cockney accent??

199 Republican/conservatives showed no common sense at all.

well, it’s on the internet—-ergo—it MUST be true!

Common sense would be to elect Hakeem Jeffries. There is no common sense left in the Republican Party, just conspiracy hoaxes, unfettered greed, and the quest for power to be the biggest jerk they can be without being held accountable for their moral and criminal shortcomings.

It isn’t a win for common sense. Republicans aren’t going to elect anyone as Speaker because the CR is going to run out in a month, and they know the only way for their toxic party to win is to collapse the economy by shutting down the government along with a Powell interest rate hike for absolutely no good reason (rate hikes do nothing against greedflation which is 90% of the inflation we have right now). A distraught country with a major recession that has been told for 30 years that government doesn’t work but a strongman will ends up with a dictatorship. That’s what the Fascists want. Their plan is out there for all to read too.

Common sense hasn’t actually won yet.

So far…

I LOVE IT!! 2 to 1 there’s gonna be a MAGA Rethugithan that’ll say it was rigged!!

I noticed that as soon as they switched from an open floor ballot to a secret vote, Jordan was rejected quite handily. It suggests to me that many who voted for him only did so for fear of reprisals.

I think there is still a good chance that Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) will make another run for the Speaker’s gavel. Or that Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) will be made Coalition Speaker. Both choices would be better than Jim Jordan! I have no love for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but at least he knew playing chicken with the debt ceiling (over money already spent) last spring or government funding last month wasn’t good news for anyone! Here’s hoping that we can get the gears of Congress moving again and move on to next year when all seats in the House (and one third of the Senate) will be up for grabs. We need to expand our hold on the Senate and win back the House, and show the Freedom Caucus for the bullies they are. Fortunately, we learned with the Jordan vote that when enough people stand up to bullies, they usually back off.

Sorry, they aren’t there yet. They’ve shown a modicum by rejecting Jordon, but I’ll be (pleasantly) surprised if they show common sense by actually choosing someone who is able and willing to do the job correctly. I don’t know enough to be certain there is still actually such a person among the GOP in the House, but even if there is I suspect the odds of them getting the job are somewhere between slim and none.