Wow, Jim Jordan made history in the most embarrassing way with his failed bid for speakership
Meidas Touch:The last time this happened was in 1923 when Massachusetts Republican Frederick Gillett received 197 votes from the majority GOP on the first ballot.
Unlike Jim Jordan, however, Gillett went on to win the gavel on the ninth ballot, something that looks increasingly unlikely for Jordan.After a sex abuse scandal, complicity in an insurrection to overthrow the United States Government, and failing to pass a single piece of legislation in his 16 years in Congress and being labeled a “legislative terrorist” by former speaker John Boehner, Jim Jordan seems poised for infamy as one of the biggest Speaker flops in U.S.
history.After his historic loss yesterday, it looked like Jordan would make history again today when a third vote to NOT elect him as House Speaker was scheduled for noon, but this morning he said he was putting his efforts on “pause” amid reports the number of Republicans opposing him had ballooned to almost 30, eight more than yesterday, and 10 more than on Tuesday.The Washington Post reports:Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will not seek an additional speaker vote Thursday, and he will back a plan to give Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.), the temporary speaker, additional powers, according to multiple people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the plan.
