That article is about this House. We’re talking about the Senate. Electing a House Speaker required a simple majority of all members. Given Democrats’ sizeable majority, this means probably 50 Representatives would have to withhold support from Jeffries. This may happen or may not. Fortunately, in the House there are mechanisms for membership to bring bills to the floor regardless of the Speaker’s wishes.
In the Senate, I think enough Democratic Senators are on board for a change from Schumer, which will force a competitive election for Majority Leader. This position has more control of the legislative agenda than the House Speaker does
So you think the same party that’s threatening reps for control of the house simply won’t organize to the same level in the Senate, the much more powerful body of government? Explain why to me the Senate is gonna be a free and fair race from the same party willing to threaten reps over the house.
The House, Senate, and Democratic Party are all different things. You seem to think they’re all controlled by the same people, but they’re not. In the Senate, Chris Van Hollen is stepping up to challenge Schumer for Majority Leader. No one has stepped up in the House to challenge Jeffries. That Jeffries and/or his allies in the House threatened the representative who is the subject of that article has nothing to do with the Senate
AOC doesn’t want it because being Speaker is a full time job and would not permit her to do what she’s good at, plus most of that time would be spent fundraising, which she does not believe she is capable of to the extent needed.
She released a really long explanation of the whole Speaker battle the other day on Instagram, and that’s part of what she talked about: she literally has no interest in it.
I’m not on IG, but there are Instagram viewers that will let you watch without an account, and it is embedded in this article as well (it’s at the very end). You can hear it straight from her own mouth.
She and Bernie Sanders are each, and together, EXCELLENT at getting the progressive message across to average, uninterested voters and getting the vote out. And they’ve been doing it all along; they just never gave up. And here we are.
While Republicans have been hiding from their constituents, all summer and fall Bernie and AOC have been traveling the country and meeting with everybody they can, from activists and organizers to average voters, to get people registered to vote and to educate them on the workings of power, what we can do, and how exactly we can do it.
The video you didn’t watch is just another example of what AOC does on the regular: she fully described with examples what a speaker does, how their position is both legislative and political, the necessary qualities that a speaker should have, why she doesn’t think she has them, and how the speaker is selected.
The recent progressive turnout across all fifty states has a lot to do with AOC and Bernie, and others like them, working as hard as they can, in every way that they can, to get voters actively engaging with the process of democracy again.
That article is about this House. We’re talking about the Senate. Electing a House Speaker required a simple majority of all members. Given Democrats’ sizeable majority, this means probably 50 Representatives would have to withhold support from Jeffries. This may happen or may not. Fortunately, in the House there are mechanisms for membership to bring bills to the floor regardless of the Speaker’s wishes.
In the Senate, I think enough Democratic Senators are on board for a change from Schumer, which will force a competitive election for Majority Leader. This position has more control of the legislative agenda than the House Speaker does
You think party leadership in the Senate is gonna be less forceful than the house?
I don’t understand how you gleaned that from anything I said above
So you think the same party that’s threatening reps for control of the house simply won’t organize to the same level in the Senate, the much more powerful body of government? Explain why to me the Senate is gonna be a free and fair race from the same party willing to threaten reps over the house.
The House, Senate, and Democratic Party are all different things. You seem to think they’re all controlled by the same people, but they’re not. In the Senate, Chris Van Hollen is stepping up to challenge Schumer for Majority Leader. No one has stepped up in the House to challenge Jeffries. That Jeffries and/or his allies in the House threatened the representative who is the subject of that article has nothing to do with the Senate
Tbh, I think the only reason AOC hasn’t done that is because of a potential 2028 presidential run
AOC doesn’t want it because being Speaker is a full time job and would not permit her to do what she’s good at, plus most of that time would be spent fundraising, which she does not believe she is capable of to the extent needed.
She released a really long explanation of the whole Speaker battle the other day on Instagram, and that’s part of what she talked about: she literally has no interest in it.
I’m not on IG, but there are Instagram viewers that will let you watch without an account, and it is embedded in this article as well (it’s at the very end). You can hear it straight from her own mouth.
What is she good at that actually achieves change? I’m not being disingenuous here, I heard about the video she made but did not watch it.
She and Bernie Sanders are each, and together, EXCELLENT at getting the progressive message across to average, uninterested voters and getting the vote out. And they’ve been doing it all along; they just never gave up. And here we are.
While Republicans have been hiding from their constituents, all summer and fall Bernie and AOC have been traveling the country and meeting with everybody they can, from activists and organizers to average voters, to get people registered to vote and to educate them on the workings of power, what we can do, and how exactly we can do it.
The video you didn’t watch is just another example of what AOC does on the regular: she fully described with examples what a speaker does, how their position is both legislative and political, the necessary qualities that a speaker should have, why she doesn’t think she has them, and how the speaker is selected.
The recent progressive turnout across all fifty states has a lot to do with AOC and Bernie, and others like them, working as hard as they can, in every way that they can, to get voters actively engaging with the process of democracy again.