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Thorn posted...

Not much, honestly. It would just be even more embarrassing for them than this already is.

I say this assuming they'd vacate the chair and force more Speaker votes. If you mean by some weird miracle he remained Speaker than it'd actually be kind of helpful. Speaker sets the agenda for the House. Generally speaking, the House only votes on what the Speaker lets them. It's just that unlike the Senate there's a way around that but it's rarely used. But in this bizarro timeline with a Jeffries speakership he could have the House vote on stuff the Senate passes that some of the GOP in vulnerable districts like the NY Reps might end up voting for.

Also would be a lot stressful ensuring that funding the government and raising the debt ceiling actually got votes instead of having to rely on a discharge petition to circumvent the Speaker.

I rapidly went through three thought processes when reading this.

My first viewpoint was that, in lieu of actual progress, the best thing the Dems could do would be to keep putting forward helpful motions that get denied. It does make the GOP look bad to voters, if only a little bit.

Then I wondered about how doing so would just make the government function like a continuous clown show. Eroding the stability of an already-crumbling system, one grain of sand down the hourglass at a time.

Then I remembered that there was an insurrection that went unpunished, so what does it matter lmao