#both events were trainwrecks but as a former congressional employee I'm sooo invested in this

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in the much-anticipated sequel to last year's "conservative party technically has a majority but cannot manage to choose a leader" fiasco in the u.k., 2023 now brings you the exact same thing, this time in the u.s. with the added twist that the entire house of representatives is shut down and incapable of doing any other business until this mess is resolved

everyone get your lettuce ready, let's see how long it takes to get a speaker

#politics #us politics #2023 us house speaker election #both events were trainwrecks but as a former congressional employee I'm sooo invested in this #i mean obviously it's horrible and the longer this goes on the more problems we will have #and of course it's all indicative of much more significant institutional problems both within congress and in the republican party #and i'm happy to talk about all that if you ask me #i'm a politics student after all #but i'm sitting here by myself watching the news and i just wanted to make haha funnie joke post #(yes these are basically just my same tags from the other night but i wanted to make it its own post) #.txt #about #also you know who i'm thinking about today? mr willis of ohio. iykyk