{"id":56045,"date":"2023-10-19T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56045"},"modified":"2023-10-19T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:02:01","slug":"gop-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56045","title":{"rendered":"GOP set to lose House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am going to venture gingerly out on the proverbial political limb to make an assertion about the future of the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>It is that the Republicans&#8217; razor-thin control of the lower legislative chamber is in serious danger of flipping back to Democratic control after the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? Because the Republican hierarchy that controls the House cannot function. It cannot elect a speaker after ousting the guy who once had the office. Failure to choose a speaker puts the shutdown of the federal government into even more jeopardy, meaning it is likely to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Who will get the blame? The feckless Republican congressional leadership, that&#8217;s who! And they deserve it, too!<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan, the unofficial chairman of the MAGA board in the House, will not be elected speaker, which is a good thing. The guy happens to be an election denier and an unindicted participant in the action on 1\/6 spasm that threatened to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p>The House does have an interim speaker, Patrick McHenry, who doesn&#8217;t want the job. To avoid the calamity of a government shutdown, the House might give McHenry some more power to at least get the legislative wheels turning to avoid the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>All of this sets up a potential rout in the 2024 congressional election. Democrats need to flip four seats to take back the House.<\/p>\n<p>Bring it!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to venture gingerly out on the proverbial political limb to make an assertion about the future of the U.S. House. It is that the Republicans&#8217; razor-thin control of the lower legislative chamber is in serious danger of flipping back to Democratic control after the 2024 election. Why is that? Because the Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP set to lose House<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9755,2179,7864],"class_list":["post-56045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-6","tag-house-gop","tag-jim-jordan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56046,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045\/revisions\/56046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}