I feel this is worthy of its own thread instead being nibbled at across several threads. I haven’t studied the options, but I feel it should be someone under sixty with a parliamentary skillset who isn’t too centrist.
I know AOC will be a popular option here, but I’d be interested in alternatives who would be willing to have AOC on their leadership team as a potential successor.
AOC would be amazing but the chances of that are ~zero. If it’s not Pelosi, it’s probably gonna be a standard eDem like Steny Hoyer or whatever. Maybe someone like Clyburn in a misguided attempt to regain the “lost” minority voters this cycle, because that’s easier than making meaningful change. IDK who else, maybe a Schiff or something.
60% Pelosi
25% Hoyer
10% Clyburn / token appeal to minorities
5% Schiff/Nadler/whoever
-50% anyone from the squad, or Katie Porter
Tim Ryan
Yea, Pelosi beat him before but maybe it works out for him this time. I assume he’s just a standard eDem windsock. This line in his House bio made me roll my eyes, so he’d be a perfect Speaker
Ryan has also served in the Ohio State Senate where he spearheaded efforts to establish a state-based earned income tax credit, to standardize community school data reporting, and bring college students into the debate over higher education funding.
Paul Ryan
I think speaker of the house requires a different skill set than what AOC has.
They’ll obviously not pick a great choice though it’s the dem party.
Speaker often comes from a relatively safe seat. I hope Pramila gets consideration. or another woman with more committee seniority.
what’s the process for selecting the speaker?
reps get nominated, then caucus votes
First we need to ask Stacey if she wants it. These are the new rules.
As the Constitution does not explicitly state that the speaker must be an incumbent member of the House, it is permissible for representatives to vote for someone who is not a member of the House at the time, and non-members have received a few votes in various speaker elections over the past several years.
Remember, the speaker needs to be a natural born citizen. Not by rule, but because they would get constitutionally passed over for the presidency should something happen to the Prez and Veep. And then senate president pro tem, currently chuck Grassley, becomes president.
This rules out Jayapal, Lieu, and probably others.
we got Kamala. it’s not that big a deal. aww crap, third in line is senate president pro tempore? fck that noise.
Linda Sanchez
Henry Cuellar
Tony Cardenas
Joaquin Castro
It’s pandering time, folks. Cardenas is my first choice, but tbh, picking one of the Texans would probably a better political move.
Other than demographics, what are the endearing qualities of these politicians?
Does it matter? The number of congresspeople I would consider as having “endearing qualities” is small enough to count on two hands. The point is to get more Latino Democrats into higher positions in the government, something I’ve been talking about since the primary.
All four of them have been in congress for at least 3 terms, so they aren’t noobs, and none of them have done anything objectionable.
I know I’m just reiterating rants above me but
Fuck you Nancy for trying to be speaker for another term. This is simple math, you lost house seats while Biden won.
Get fucked
Schiff or Swalwell, or some other CA dem not named Nancy.
My opinion of Nancy is higher than most here, but she needs to go.
Also, i want Porter to start an exploratory 2024 committee. She’s from IA.
Man Nancy going for speaker again gave me WAAF vibes again. I mean I already had them right after the election, but they kinda faded while I awaited the call, but they’re back now.
She’s a favorite to get it and she is so fucking god awful we will absolutely lose in the house in 2022. She failed so unbelievably badly with messaging, tying Trump to Republicans down ballot, actually going after Trump and trying to hold him accountable etc.
Over 50% of the population walked away from the stimulus shit think both sides were equally at fault. Nearly 100% of Republicans blamed democrats, and only like 70% of democrats blamed Republicans. Majority of independents blamed both sides.
Not to mention she is insanely hated and will drive up turnout. Like fine pick another moderate, but fucking pick one who is willing to fucking fight for people and not just play defense. Absolute fucking disgrace. Like these ghouls live in the 1990s still, not spending money on digital… going after progressives… Like actually spending a lot of money to do it. Spending time attacking Omar instead of Trump.
There was a good podcast from The Majority Report that talked about her insane failures, Schumers too. Like the confirmation hearings? Why in the absolute fuck did you idiots show up? That probably cost them senate seats with Feinsteins performance. JFC.
Heres that podcast, and for the moderates they don’t make it about ideology at all. Mostly about how she did absolutely nothing on messaging, trying to make Republicans in the senate look bad, push wedge issues, tie them to Trump more, and just played defense the entire time
Also apart of the podcast. Apart of nancies deal with getting the speakership last time was that to win it again she would need 2/3 of the caucus instead of just half.
Guaranteed that piece of shit walks it back.