Comments on: I Welcome The Return Of The Court Jesters http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/10/05/i-welcome-the-return-of-the-court-jesters/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 05 May 2026 04:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/10/05/i-welcome-the-return-of-the-court-jesters/#comment-204410 dsws Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:10:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24181#comment-204410 The second layer of my message in [1] is about institutional legitimacy, and accepting that the other sides (there really are always more than two, even though our winner-take-all plurality system forces an artificial reorganization into only two) sometimes win. My representative is one of the leftmost in the House, and I want her to be actively involved in getting the Democratic caucus to vote for a Republican speaker. I want her to accept that there's going to be a Republican speaker, just because the Republicans won a majority of House districts in the last election. No matter what I think of them, they won those elections. This kind of recognition is exactly what the MAGAts are most notably against. The second layer of my message in [1] is about institutional legitimacy, and accepting that the other sides (there really are always more than two, even though our winner-take-all plurality system forces an artificial reorganization into only two) sometimes win. My representative is one of the leftmost in the House, and I want her to be actively involved in getting the Democratic caucus to vote for a Republican speaker. I want her to accept that there's going to be a Republican speaker, just because the Republicans won a majority of House districts in the last election.

No matter what I think of them, they won those elections. This kind of recognition is exactly what the MAGAts are most notably against.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/10/05/i-welcome-the-return-of-the-court-jesters/#comment-204409 nypoet22 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:31:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24181#comment-204409 amen, dan. amen, dan.

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/10/05/i-welcome-the-return-of-the-court-jesters/#comment-204401 dsws Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:24:24 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24181#comment-204401 What I just sent to my representative: Find a group of at least eight members from each party, who want the House to actually function. Agree on some basic points, about having the chamber at least do the bare minimum of what our legislature owes us as a country. Go to the leadership of each party. Make it clear to each that you're also capable of going to the other, and still holding together. Elect a speaker who will do the job, and make it so that they can. It should be a Republican, because they have the majority. But make sure each party's leaders know that you're willing and able to get behind a speaker from the other party if that's what it takes to have a House of Representatives instead of a national embarrassment. What I just sent to my representative:

Find a group of at least eight members from each party, who want the House to actually function. Agree on some basic points, about having the chamber at least do the bare minimum of what our legislature owes us as a country. Go to the leadership of each party. Make it clear to each that you're also capable of going to the other, and still holding together. Elect a speaker who will do the job, and make it so that they can. It should be a Republican, because they have the majority. But make sure each party's leaders know that you're willing and able to get behind a speaker from the other party if that's what it takes to have a House of Representatives instead of a national embarrassment.

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