Perspective: C-SPAN during the vote for speaker has become must-watch TV. It’s raucous and surprising, yet spectacularly inert and predictable at the same time. Jon Stewart tweeted Wednesday, “This is the best season of cspan…ever.”
Reps.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Paul A. Gosar spoke together in the House chamber during the House speaker vote on Jan. 3.
What is the House of reps.-elect but a high school filled with recovering debate club presidents? The endless succession of votes gave us an unfiltered view, and so many varying angles, of that august chamber stuck in a legislative rendition of “Groundhog Day.”Perhaps it was a case of magical thinking, but we kept tuning in — okay, some of us rarely tuned out — to see if the script would change. It was tweaked. There were slight additions.
during the seventh vote. And, yet again, for the eighth. Or Lauren Boebert, prior to the ninth vote,Democratic leadership, would-be speaker Hakeem Jeffries and reps.-elect Pete Aguilar and Katherine Clark, poised at their wooden table, rarely summoned substitute players or called for script revisions as the votes for the New Yorker consistently totaled 212, 212, 212.
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