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The US House of Representatives faces gridlock in selecting a speaker, hindering progress on critical issues and causing embarrassment.
American voters
The full transcript provides in-depth insight into the challenges caused by the delay in selecting a speaker and its impact on addressing urgent matters effectively.
Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today, we are going to talk about the US House of
Representatives and their quest to find a speaker.
Because that is no longer moving at all.
It wasn't moving forward very well to begin with, but now
it's pretty much stopped.
If you have missed the news, Scalise, well, he became
He got the nomination, he was going to be the Republican guy.
He withdrew, he changed his mind.
The absolute clown show that the House GOP has become is still basically in gridlock.
At this point, there's no real clear path towards them finding a speaker.
There's a lot of people operating with their own agendas, not those of even the Republican
Party.
It is important for Americans to remember that not just are we facing multiple, it's
It's just crisis after crisis after crisis on the international stage right now.
And the U.S. House of Representatives, your representatives, the people that are supposed
to represent your interest can do absolutely nothing because the Republican Party can't
decide who gets to hold a gavel.
On top of that, it's worth remembering we also have the whole budget thing that was
never really resolved.
Because the Republican Party plays politics within its own party, trying to jockey for
position, trying to make sure they are in the best position to move forward with their
career when they are done representing you, the country is just put on pause.
There is no way for the United States to really respond to a lot of international issues or
domestic ones because Republicans in the House of Representatives cannot come together to
choose a speaker.
It's an embarrassment.
It is an embarrassment.
Where it goes from here, we don't know yet, but given the hardline politics at play from
people who are in very, very Republican-dominated districts and those who are more moderate,
meaning they lean a certain way with their campaign rhetoric because they are in contested
districts, it seems it seems like it might be a bit before some kind of
consensus is reached unless the one side just caves. But those that are considered
moderates today, which would be hardline Republicans from like five years ago,
Those candidates, they're in a position where if the speakership becomes dominated by the far right it's unlikely
they'll be re-elected because those positions, well they won't play well in their districts that are more evenly matched
or less gerrymandered, whatever the case may be.
So once again, the entire nation is waiting for the Republican Party to finish its popularity
contest before a series of major international events can really be addressed, before a just
list of domestic issues can be addressed.
The American people should probably remember that come election time.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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