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  In their defense, republican based government doesn't work too well either.
context: I thought it would get less amusing the more times he failed, but here we are and it's still hilarious. >
  
  I definitely thought yesterday was the end of it, they'd adjourn, have some private meetings in the evening, and come back united under McCarthy after he dishes out some committee seats or whatever. 
  The fact that they came back this morning and he still doesn't have the votes is just so goddamn funny. >
  
  What’s even funnier is there doesn’t seem to be a viable route at all right now. Those hold outs will never vote for him. The people those hold outs want like Gym Jordan and Andy Biggs are never going to get the majority either. There will be just as many if not more hold outs there. 
  Probably the best way for the GOP to save face right now is to reach across to the Dems and see if they could muster up enough votes between them for someone like Cheney or Kinzinger. 
  They will never do that though since they have pretty much made their platform, “owning the libs”. Instead they will choose to make America watch their internal dysfunction over and over. >
  
  Many in GOP want to do away with investigating themselves for ethics violations. Cheney or Kinzinger wouldn't allow that. So no go. >
  
  The idea of going across the aisle is that you don't need any of the crooked GQP who fear the office of ethics, you just need 6 or so Republicans who haven't done anything wrong along with the 212 Dems to elect anyone they want. >
  
  Dem speaker in a republican majority house? Sign me up. >
  
  I’m amazed there aren’t 6 self-serving republicans willing to broker with democrats for choice committee assignments. 
  Seems like the ideal moment to cross the isle and cut a very powerful deal for oneself. >
  
  Sounds like a good way to be moderately more powerful for two years and then get primaried into oblivion. >
  
  Not just moderately more powerful. Being a committee chair is dramatically more powerful and easily parleyed into a nice cushy lobby job after the two years. >
  
  Yeah but they might not be too excited about the death threats and crazies that would get riled up by that behavior. America doesn't just negotiate with terrorists nowadays, it has a policy of flat out appeasement. >
  
  Well we may not have got a red wave, but we might get to see a bloodbath as the r's start infighting. >
  
  It was a red ripple.
  Specifically, the shot in Jurassic Park that shows the cup of water on the dashboard rippling.
  Now we're watching the T-Rex destroy the SUV. >
  
  Except in this scenario it'd be one T-Rex fighting itself. >
  
  The t-rex was kind of fighting itself when it attacked the SUV >
  
  Turns out conspiracy based governance doesn't work well. Too many loons, too hard to corral.