Rep. Tom Emmer dropped his bid for speaker of the House of Representatives, just hours after he secured the nomination, with former President Donald Trump and dozens of Republican lawmakers expressing opposition to his candidacy.
The Republicans are completely untrustworthy. The party has built itself on the idea of “owning the libs” which has killed all compromises.
The only olive branch the Dems should offer is “we’ll keep things functioning if you abstain from the next speaker vote”. They don’t need anything else. The majority of Dems aren’t the socialist communists Republicans like to fearmonger over
That’s exactly my point. Their olive branch should come with rule changes, committee re-shufflings, etc. to get the Democrats in a more powerful, better position. But like you said, the Republicans won’t go for that because they’re intransigent, so…back to square one.
The Republicans are completely untrustworthy. The party has built itself on the idea of “owning the libs” which has killed all compromises.
The only olive branch the Dems should offer is “we’ll keep things functioning if you abstain from the next speaker vote”. They don’t need anything else. The majority of Dems aren’t the socialist communists Republicans like to fearmonger over
That’s exactly my point. Their olive branch should come with rule changes, committee re-shufflings, etc. to get the Democrats in a more powerful, better position. But like you said, the Republicans won’t go for that because they’re intransigent, so…back to square one.