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A little "Speaker Speculation" - Speaker Roulette redux [1]

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Date: 2023-05-28

I may not be completely happy with the way the debt ceiling crisis ended, but I am not that sad about it either. Democrats will join the moderate Republicans who are going to vote for this deal, and that might possibly be the end of the McCarthy era. So, with that in mind, let’s grab our popcorn and beer, and see how Speaker Roulette round 2 turns out. I see this ending in one of 3 ways, and each of them is a big win for the Democrats:

1) McCarthy retains the Speaker’s gavel with the help of Democrats. MAGA completely melts down and, until the 2024 election, they wage war on the moderates. In November 2024, a few of them lose their elections to Democrats. Democrats regain the House, while keeping the Senate due to Biden’s long coattails.

2) McCarthy is removed as Speaker. All Democrats in the House then vote for Jeffries, while Republicans split their votes and are unable to elect a speaker. During this time, all sham investigations of Biden’s administration end. Once again, Democrats regain the House and retain the Senate, thanks to the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight.

3) Improbable, but not out of the realm of possibility, McCarthy is removed, and votes for a new speaker go on for so long that 5 moderate Republicans eventually vote for Jeffries, just to end the impasse. Jeffries gets the gavel. Don’t say that this possibility is bullshit. We can dream, can’t we? And, of course, Democrats regain the House and retain the Senate.

Now why didn’t I mention Joe Biden being reelected in any of these scenarios? Because that is not a possibility at all. That is a given. Sleepy Joe? Not so sleepy, is he? He just gone done smoking MAGA and the Republican Party, just as he has been smoking them ever since he was elected in 2020. 2024 is going to be a great year for the good guys. Count on it. We will have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, then it will be time to go after the illegitimate Supreme Court.

So answer the poll. My answer is going to be option 1, but I will be happy with any of these outcomes. No, we didn’t get everything we wanted, but Biden has blown a huge hole in the Republican Party’s soul (if the GOP ever had one to begin with), and that definitely works for me. Well, done, Dark Brandon.

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