Last week, I wrote about how some Democratic United States Congress candidates to whom special interests had paid relatively little attention were elected in the recent midterm election in the big wave of Democratic electoral success across the country. After the election, I indicated, the special interests would seek to “make up for lost time to ensure these relatively unknown new Congress members become allies.” To the extent such efforts fail, some truly independent Democrats may, I wrote, emerge in the Congress.
Tag: Speaker of the House
If you are holding out hope that there now being nine Republican candidates for speaker of the United States House of Representatives means a candidate who does not want to commit the US government to supporting Israel in its new war may win, think again.
Déjà vu in the United States House of Representatives. For the second time this week two Republican House members were running against each other to become House speaker, both of whom were over the top in their support for the expansive aiding of the Israel government in its war arising out of last Saturday’s Hamas attack.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) narrowly defeated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in a Wednesday secret ballot vote among Republican members of the House of Representatives regarding which man should become House speaker. Next up is a speaker vote by the full House membership.
One thing was never in question in the race between Scalise and Jordan. Either of them as the new speaker would be over the top in his support of the Israel government and of helping it in its new war arising out of the Saturday Hamas attack.