C-SPAN: Representative Earl Blumenauer: 'It's Not Our Fault Republicans Can't Even Agree With Themselves'

Source:Twitter- U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (Democrat, Oregon)

"Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR): "It's not our fault Republicans can't even agree with themselves. And ultimately, they will have to work with us on a bipartisan solution. You can write that script now, just fill in the numbers later." 

From C-SPAN

Representative Earl Blumenauer was talking to Congressional reporters on Capitol Hill about what the final appropriations bills and perhaps even a budget for 2024 would look like when everything is done and this latest version of the MAGA reality TV show MAGA Goes To Washington is over and House Republicans finally nominate a Speaker. 

But and even though Representative Blumenauer wasn't talking about the latest MAGA crisis and the vacant House Speaker's office, his quote: "It's not our fault Republicans can't even agree with Themselves." could be applied to that story as well. 

House Democrats are not responsible for the fact that House Republicans who are supposed to be in charge of the House of Representatives and supposed to govern the House of Representatives, since they won back the majority in the House last year, can't run the lower chamber of Congress. (And thank God it's just the lower chamber of Congress and they don't have more power at the Federal level)  

Some Congressional reporters are suggesting or at least asking House Democrats led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, to vote for whoever House Republicans finally nominate for Speaker, so the House can finally have a Speaker. But the fact is House Republicans can't even nominate their own Speaker's candidate. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out of the Speaker's race and the only Republican candidate left, is House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who only has 99 out of 222 House Republicans behind him. 

Even though House Democrats are in the minority in the House, they're actually in a very strong position there. They now only have 212 seats out of 435, which is a very strong position for a minority party, but they're united behind their Leader Hakeem Jeffries and they're united against House MAGA on everything. Which means that if House Republicans want the cooperation of House Democrats to nominate a Speaker, they need to work with House Democrats and give them something substantial for that cooperation first. 

All of these things are things that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries needs to be thinking about and what that bipartisan agreement on electing a new Speaker would look like and I'm sure he's already doing that. 

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