Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

The blocked-House impasse deepening, Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

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    Compromise is the heart of democracy; it might taste vile in your mouth, but coming to an agreement with your countrymen is the only way forward. Republicans only want a government that represents them and represses everyone else. THAT is why they love the traitor trump, because he promises to only be their president and no one else’s. The truth is he only cares about himself and will sell this country for a song if it is to his benefit.

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      Just like he did when he shared highly sensitive information about the defense system in Gaza with Putin, who then traded that info for ammo to the Iranians, who then passed it along to Hamas, who, well, you know how that went.

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            Corroborated by the evidence of those boxes of classified material he took home when he left while doing none of the things that would give some benefit of the doubt that he had good intentions, like releasing information to the public like Manning and Snowden did, which might be a part of what someone who really wanted to drain the swamp would do.

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    I nominate Arnold Schwarzenegger for speaker.

    He’ll get enough votes from both parties. His dad also fought for and was ruined by fascism so he has a pretty big hard on against all of it. Sensible choice in nonsensical times.

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      The doors really open wide when you consider that the nominee can be someone outside of the House. I nominate my 14 year old nephew, i think he’d at least do better than any republican in congress.

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        Exactly.

        Democrats can (and should) go out and find excellent, apolitical candidates. National heroes. We can’t get Jeffries, OK. Understood. You can’t all agree on much, but you are united in not wanting a Democratic political operative as speaker. Understandable.

        Can any of the 221 GOP representatives stack up against former astronaut Scott Kelly? How about a random 9/11 firefighter? Any of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients?

        Any candidate for speaker think they can compare favorably to any of these people?

        The speaker does not need to be a member of Congress, and the Speakership does not need to be a political position. Let’s establish a tradition where if we can’t get a partisan majority for speaker, we look for our candidate from the nation as a whole.

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      I wish he could, but that puts him second in line for the presidency and he wasn’t born a natural US citizen.

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        That’s actually not a concern in regards to Gov. Schwarzenegger. IANAL but requirements for speaker of the house are somewhat lax; some people argue that a candidate doesn’t even have to be a member of the house.

        In regards to being in line for presidency, succession would skip over Gov. Schwarzenegger until succession finds someone who does meet requirements should such a need arise.

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        The fact that he couldn’t become POTUS would only be a plus in Dems in the house voting for him for speaker.

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        Which is kinda a dumb rule because Schwarzenegger has a lot more loyalty to the people than Trump ever did, despite where both were born.

        It also lead to the whole debate about Obama’s birth, which was just a technical debate rather than relevant at all to how good of a president he could be.

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      The easier (and less painful) way out is to elevate SpongeBob… Er… Patrick temporarily to get shit done. But the idiots on the Right don’t want to do anything at all that includes Democratic votes. They are acting like they have a 40 seat majority , not a 4 seat majority.

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        He himself doesn’t want his role to be elevated and is threatening to quit if they do that. And if they want him to be the speaker he wants to be officially elected.

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          Good on him for that, and may we all follow in his footsteps; don’t accept additional work responsibilities unless it comes with the title, pay, perks, etc.

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          I could be mistaken but I thought he was threatening to quit when some Republicans were floating the idea of him doing more without elevating his role with a vote. Like just start doing speaker stuff anyway.

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        I oppose Republicans, but I don’t want to see that done either. They should either eliminate the position entirely (change the Constitution) or elect someone. If they can’t elect someone, then Congress should grind to a halt until it’s done, and we deserve the fallout that brings.

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    Wait, I’m confused. I thought he wasn’t going to run a 3rd time? But he still ran and lost, and now the GOP is dropping him entirely from the running?

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      Secret ballot - they were finding out what representatives really think about him by not doing it in public

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    these chimps have no idea where to find Square One… they’re trying to drag everyone else down to Square Zero with them…