A Dem will be Speaker: it’s tradition, and many Republicans will cheerfully go along. They don’t want to be called “obstructionists”.
“A Dem will be Speaker: it’s tradition, and many Republicans will cheerfully go along. They don’t want to be called “obstructionistsâ€.”
It will be a crying shame if they go along with this. The guy they want to be Speaker is a New Orleans Dem which should speak volumes. I know they do things differently in Louisiana, but the Republicans shouldn’t get beaten down because Edwards won by a lot over the deeply flawed Vitter. And that’s because the GOP won everything else (legislature, attorney general, SOS, lieutenant governor, etc) generally in a landslide. As an example, voters overwhelmingly chose for attorney general the extremely conservative Tea Party right-winger Jeff Landry over the more ‘moderate’ Dem-turned-Republican Buddy Caldwell
Edwards ran as a Republican lite (socially very conservative) and that is clearly the direction LA voters want. So the House Republicans shouldn’t let the Dems take the top box in the House, especially considering that they just expanded their majority there, too.