DEMOCRATS should NOMINATE LIZ CHENEY for SPEAKER of the HOUSE TOMORROW

• The rules do not require the Speaker to be a current member of Congress.
• If all Democrats voted for Cheney, only 6 Republicans would be needed and I'm pretty sure there's more than 6 Republicans who would support Cheney.
  
• She was recently third ranking member in the Republican Caucus so she is familiar with the position and its responsibilities.
  
• Cheney would be a complete end-run around BOTH feckless McCarthyites and dangerous insurrectionists but pleasing to Conservatives.
  
• Cheney would absolutely know how to manage and support the Conservative Republican agenda but she would have no truck with the insurrectionists or MAGA and she would likely block any frivolous investigations into the Jan 6th committee or its findings.
  
• As a non House Member, Cheney would not have a vote but she would represent true Republicanism and be a serious, patriotic stand-in if both the President and VP were unexpectedly unable to lead.
  
• Nobody would be really happy with Cheney, which suggests a good compromise for a split parliament.
  

The rules do not require the Speaker to be a current member of Congress

 she would likely block any frivolous investigations into the Jan 6th committee or its findings.

I had no idea that was an option, but if it really is, this post is genius.

• If all Democrats voted for Cheney, only 6 Republicans would be needed and I'm pretty sure there's more than 6 Republicans who would support Cheney.
  

 You don’t want to be the enemy of Kevin McCarthy

• McCarthy doesn't seem like much of a threat.  
  
• We have him on tape in 2015 telling Paul Ryan that he thinks Donald Trump is a Russian agent and what did he do about it?
  
• We have him on tape on Jan 6th blaming Trump for the attack and stating that he's no longer fit to lead.  A week later he's down in Mar-a-Lago begging for his support.
  
• McCarthy can't even bring himself to condemn the insurrectionists who tried to overthrow his govt and now are trying to overthrow him.  That seems quite soft.
• Pundits are saying that if McCarthy doesn't make Speaker, he doesn't plan to server out the rest of his term. 

• McCarthy doesn't seem like much of a threat.  
  
• We have him on tape in 2015 telling Paul Ryan that he thinks Donald Trump is a Russian agent and what did he do about it?
  
• We have him on tape on Jan 6th blaming Trump for the attack and stating that he's no longer fit to lead.  A week later he's down in Mar-a-Lago begging for his support.
  
• McCarthy can't even bring himself to condemn the insurrectionists who tried to overthrow his govt and now are trying to overthrow him.  That seems quite soft.
  
• Pundits are saying that if McCarthy doesn't make Speaker, he doesn't plan to server out the rest of his term. 
  

He will resign like Boehner for sure. But if he’s still the Leader of the Party, then it’ll be hard

• Sounds like Jim Jordan is a goner too after this Sports Illustrated/HBO documentary comes out detailing what he knew when about at least 350 sex assaults on male athletes at Ohio State while Jim Jordan was coaching there for 8 years.

She still isn't aligned with the Democrats in policies/values.

• Far from it but it's not like Dems are going to get that alignment as long GOP outnumbers Dems in the House, right?
  
• Besides the obvious nod to bi-partisanship, it would be seen as a reward for courageously demanding the truth about the Jan 6th and putting American Democracy before personal poltical profit.  I doubt Cheney would appoint radicals to chair committees but she would certainly appoint solid pre-Trump style Republican conservatives.  Cheney's appointment would certainly gain some good will from the Romney/Bush wing of Republican politics.

• Far from it but it's not like Dems are going to get that alignment as long GOP outnumbers Dems in the House, right?
  

• I say that but now I'm hearing that at least some of the holdouts will vote Jeffries before McCarthy.  Dems only need six so that seems at least at the margin of possibility right now.

pleasing to Conservatives.

He will resign like Boehner for sure. But if he’s still the Leader of the Party, then it’ll be hard

• Sounds like Jim Jordan is a goner too after this Sports Illustrated/HBO documentary comes out detailing what he knew when about at least 350 sex assaults on male athletes at Ohio State while Jim Jordan was coaching there for 8 years.
  

The only thing worse than a Democrat is a RINO.

I'd be okay with it, but 95% of Conservatives would be outraged. The only thing worse than a Democrat is a RINO.

This is the "Democracy" we thought was under threat from one guy.

 In fact there are no qualifications. I’m pretty sure you could be the Speaker

Of course, if McCarthy had just expelled the members of Congress who tried to overthrow government on Jan 6th, Republicans would be in power right now. 

Another lesson in appeasing violent fascists.  If McCarthy had impeached Trump for the same, DeSantis would be running for President right now.

Let’s keep giving billions to Ukraine while our veterans suffer. Hell ya

No. The cover-up justifies further action if the goal of the Republican party (once again, as a party and not the individual goals of certain individuals) is to subvert liberal democracy. If that's the goal, then we're lost no matter what. If that isn't the goal, only a risk ignoring the event doesn't further radicalize the Republicans and allows us to come back to a central point.