I hear you, but Corporate America has been playing that same game non-stop since the Reagan administration, and the 1%ers still have to have some level of functional governance to get their tax breaks and federal handouts when they want them. It’s a louder call maybe, but not an emergency dial like the artificially created shutdown was and this new speaker drama is.
This specific level of constant crisis/open non-governance is pretty new, IMO.
However, it does look like the current House rules provide for an immediate speaker pro tempore, who will act until the beginning of the January session and an actual vote taking place, so this is not as much of a crisis as I thought it was going to be, with a replacement vote held immediately.
It’s still not good, though. The shutdown was not averted, only postponed for 45 days. Cthulhu help us.
I hear you, but Corporate America has been playing that same game non-stop since the Reagan administration, and the 1%ers still have to have some level of functional governance to get their tax breaks and federal handouts when they want them. It’s a louder call maybe, but not an emergency dial like the artificially created shutdown was and this new speaker drama is.
This specific level of constant crisis/open non-governance is pretty new, IMO.
However, it does look like the current House rules provide for an immediate speaker pro tempore, who will act until the beginning of the January session and an actual vote taking place, so this is not as much of a crisis as I thought it was going to be, with a replacement vote held immediately.
It’s still not good, though. The shutdown was not averted, only postponed for 45 days. Cthulhu help us.