Jeffries calls for ‘traditional Republicans to break with the extremists’

Traditional Republicans have a name.

Its called "Democrat".

What used to be "the left" is now just a more moderate, reasonable right.

What used to be "the right" is not even on the spectrum anymore, its become a populist extremist reactionary fascism. It's so far off the chart its on an entirely separate piece of paper.

Jeffries needs to just accept this fact and walk across the floor. Liberals are now Conservatives, and Conservatives are now Nazis.

Edit: Misread that Jeffries was a Republican, the fact he's a Democrat changes the context a bit. He's absolutely right but he's basically just talking about what I re-iterated above, but its the republican "traditionals" that need to walk across the floor and stop associating with Nazis if they dont wanna go down with that ship.

The extremists they are associating with are just going to Crabs in the Bucket them, clawing them down with them when things go under. If they were smart they'd drop the screaming children and walk over to where all the adults have gone.

It is absolutely wild to me that most major news organizations are completely ignoring the fact that the guy the GOP was trying to put into the speakership until a day or two ago is an overt white supremacist. Like… news anchors are straight up omitting that entire point. It’s not even being mentioned in passing comments.

Zero shot. But it's a nice thought.

Jeffries needs 5 more votes to win.

A Republican nomination needs 217.

The sad part of all of this is that traditional Republicans have handed the party reigns over to extremists for the illusion of maintaining power. Had they told their crazies to go pound sand and fallen behind Democrats they would likely be capable of course correcting to retain some level of competition with liberals. Instead they gave power to nut-bags who have pretty much ensured their eventual, permanent demise.

"Traditional" meaning Republicans that feel the same way as the "extremists", but with the common sense to not say it blatantly and bluntly.

Poor old Republicans can't even compromise with themselves

The challenge is finding 5 house GOP who actually care about the American people. My guess is there aren't 5.

"But but ... but then the Libs might win"

Better than being associated with those extremist white taliban, is it not?

Isn't the point of the republican party to dismantle and shut down the government? Why would they "get their act together" when the literally platform on shutting down as much of the government down? This whole thing is going exactly the way republicans dream of. They have stopped any governing from happening which is the republican dream

This is the best summary I could come up with:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to “get their act together” and elect the next speaker while slamming the “extremists” within their party.

Jeffries joined PBS News Hour inside the Capitol Thursday night after Speaker-designate Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

“I know there are traditional Republicans who are good women and men who want to see government function, but they are unable to do it within the ranks of their own conference, which is dominated by the extremist wing,” Jeffries said.

Several far-right members who helped initiate former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ousting have continued to oppose solutions offered by the party.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), for example, said she voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in the secret ballot, saying she likes Scalise but wants to see him focus on defeating cancer, which he announced as “very treatable” in August.

Democrats may nominate Jeffries as their pick for speaker, potentially placing him in a race to 217 votes against whoever the GOP ultimately decides to send to the House floor.

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While I don't hold out any hope for it, a splintering of one of the two parties would likely be a good thing regardless. We need more viable parties.

What world is he living in. There are none. This is the Republican Party now.

The time to do this was ages ago, it comes too late. The normal Republicans are the extremists, they took over the party.

The only way out of this situation is for 5 or more Rs to agree to nominate and vote for Jeffries. Otherwise there will never be a speaker until the Dems win back the house.

Boy is he in for a rude awakening when they start making the lists to determine who's who.

You made your bed, now fucking lie in it

I'm just picturing that gif of Jack Nicholson mouthing yes and shaking his head up and down.

“Traditional republicans….”

ROFL! Show me one.

He needs to be finding those "rational republicans" and trying to find a handful to vote for a D...

But he won't, because he's a moderate trained by Peolisi. So before he even thinks of negotiating he already has to give up everything Dems want

This will end with Dems voting for a Republican speaker.