Will Election For Speaker of the House devolve into pre Civil War anarchy?

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Eddie Teach

#15
October 09, 2015, 12:35:35 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 09, 2015, 12:03:25 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 01, 2015, 01:06:31 AM
Q : Will Election For Speaker of the House devolve into pre Civil War anarchy?

A : No.

Wrong! :nelson:

No article to support your contention? Come on, man, I get all my news from you and John Oliver.  :sleep:
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jimmy olsen

#16
October 09, 2015, 12:53:51 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 09, 2015, 12:35:35 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 09, 2015, 12:03:25 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 01, 2015, 01:06:31 AM
Q : Will Election For Speaker of the House devolve into pre Civil War anarchy?

A : No.

Wrong! :nelson:

No article to support your contention? Come on, man, I get all my news from you and John Oliver.  :sleep:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/us/politics/house-speaker-vote.html
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katmai

#17
October 09, 2015, 01:34:34 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 09, 2015, 12:35:35 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 09, 2015, 12:03:25 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 01, 2015, 01:06:31 AM
Q : Will Election For Speaker of the House devolve into pre Civil War anarchy?

A : No.

Wrong! :nelson:

No article to support your contention? Come on, man, I get all my news from you and John Oliver.  :sleep:

:rolleyes:
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celedhring

#18
October 09, 2015, 02:49:02 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on October 01, 2015, 01:06:31 AM
Q : Will Election For Speaker of the House devolve into pre Civil War anarchy?

A : No.

I was taught this in my journalism classes: every time a news headline is written in question form, the most likely answer is "no".

Eddie Teach

#19
October 09, 2015, 03:03:35 AM
Quote from: katmai on October 09, 2015, 01:34:34 AM
:rolleyes:

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#20
October 09, 2015, 03:54:19 AM
With a few definite exceptions, the blues generally sucks IMO,
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Savonarola

#22
October 09, 2015, 07:51:33 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 09, 2015, 03:54:19 AM
With a few definite exceptions, the blues generally sucks IMO,

What exceptions would you make?
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Berkut

#23
October 09, 2015, 11:29:09 AM
So the latest is that Paul Ryan is being pressured into the job, but of course he doesn't want it, since it is a death knell for anyone who has aspirations beyond the House, which of course Ryan does.
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Valmy

#24
October 09, 2015, 11:33:25 AM
Pity how 'freedom' and 'liberty' basically mean 'fruitcake' these days.
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#25
October 09, 2015, 12:57:18 PM
I think maybe they should just give it to a Tea Party nut, just to get it through their thick skulls that they can't magically make the President disappear.
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jimmy olsen

#26
October 09, 2015, 08:27:01 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 09, 2015, 11:29:09 AM
So the latest is that Paul Ryan is being pressured into the job, but of course he doesn't want it, since it is a death knell for anyone who has aspirations beyond the House, which of course Ryan does.
He probably is the only one which can gain the support of the establishment and radicals. If not Ryan, who? :unsure:
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Tonitrus

#27
October 09, 2015, 09:46:19 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 09, 2015, 11:29:09 AM
So the latest is that Paul Ryan is being pressured into the job, but of course he doesn't want it, since it is a death knell for anyone who has aspirations beyond the House, which of course Ryan does.

Well, he better hurry up and move up to Senator or Governor, as I don't think any House plebe has ever made it through a presidential primary in recent memory.

dps

#28
October 10, 2015, 05:20:32 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 09, 2015, 09:46:19 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 09, 2015, 11:29:09 AM
So the latest is that Paul Ryan is being pressured into the job, but of course he doesn't want it, since it is a death knell for anyone who has aspirations beyond the House, which of course Ryan does.

Well, he better hurry up and move up to Senator or Governor, as I don't think any House plebe has ever made it through a presidential primary in recent memory.

Last person to go from the House to the Presidency without being a Senator or Governor in between was Garfield, and that has a big asterisk.  The only others were Lincoln and Madison--and Madison was Secretary of State in between, and in those days, being Secretary of State was the usual path to the White House.  Even Lincoln didn't go directly from the House to the Presidency;  his failed Senatorial bid against Douglas came in between.  So basically you go from being a Representative to being President approximately once in, well, never.

Eddie Teach

#29
October 10, 2015, 06:05:33 AM
Quote from: dps on October 10, 2015, 05:20:32 AM
Last person to go from the House to the Presidency without being a Senator or Governor in between was Garfield,

GHWB did it, though he had several other prominent positions in the interim.
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