House Republicans retreated into private caucus for an hour or so, where they voted by secret ballot, and Jordan was ... uhm ... de-selected as the Speaker candidate.
86 said, "Yeah, Jim - you're our guy."
112 said, "Fuck off, Jim."
It's interesting that out of those 112 who voted NO in secret, only 25 of them had the balls to vote that way on a roll call vote, on the floor of the House, where they have to say it out loud.
A couple of things to remember.
- The MAGA strong-arm tactics got even uglier than they usually are - loud and aggressive harassment of members, and their staffers, and their families, up to and including outright death threats. But it backfired, making more people less likely to support Jordan. I'm not feeling all warm-n-fuzzy about maybe this is some kind of turning of the worm, but I may be able to hold out a bit more hope. (as always - hopeful but not yet optimistic)
- I haven't seen anything in this yet to dissuade me from my belief that Republicans are deliberately causing dysfunction.
Oh yeah - almost forgot. Apparently god got it wrong (?)
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