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Does he need to be finding a sasquatch, a unicorn, and the Loch Ness Monster too?
Pipe dreams aren't a valid political strategy. The best way this ends is a power-sharing agreement where there's a Republican Speaker but rules about things like equal representation on committees and the minority having some right to bring resolutions to the floor. The most realistic way this ends is the grenade throwers will relent and agree to coalesce around someone if a power sharing deal even gets close.
People forgot Obama compromised with the Republicans and got fucked over. Compromise after compromise on bills only for Republicans to vote no on absolutely gutted Dem bills. "Obamacare" was basically what Romney setup when he was governor. Republicans screamed socialism on a republican bill.
Oh yeah...
It's waaaaay more likely all republican get their shit together than find 5 willing to vote D....
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I mean, if we're talking about what's likely, it seems to me the House will simply stay in Speaker-less gridlock and chaos for the entire 45 days until the government shuts down again.
Yes, I believe it's significantly more likely that any four of Gaetz, Biggs, Buck, Burchett, Crane, Good, Mace, and Rosendale will agree to some McCarthy-like speaker rather than letting the Democrats win and get a more bipartisan House where the far-right would have less power to drive the agenda.