I still don't understand why Democrats in the House aren't just picking random Republican members of the Problem Solvers Caucus to nominate. Don't ask permission, don't warn them, just do what you have to do to get a name on the next Speaker ballot. Make sure there's some Republican vaguely invested in getting things done who is *able to win*. If they play ball, you get to hand Biden bipartisan legislative wins going into 2024. If they don't, then you can say that the squish Republicans in competitive districts are unambiguously unwilling to push back on the most extreme, insane demands from the chaos caucus. If Democrats do nothing, we stay stuck in the Jordan-or-McCarthy paradigm, *as has been obvious since December of 2022*.
I still don't understand why Democrats in the House aren't just picking random Republican members of the Problem Solvers Caucus to nominate. Don't ask permission, don't warn them, just do what you have to do to get a name on the next Speaker ballot. Make sure there's some Republican vaguely invested in getting things done who is *able to win*. If they play ball, you get to hand Biden bipartisan legislative wins going into 2024. If they don't, then you can say that the squish Republicans in competitive districts are unambiguously unwilling to push back on the most extreme, insane demands from the chaos caucus. If Democrats do nothing, we stay stuck in the Jordan-or-McCarthy paradigm, *as has been obvious since December of 2022*.