The last time a Speaker wasn’t elected on the 1st vote was re: 100 years ago. Before that in 1856, it took > 130 votes to elect a Speaker due to extreme polarization over slavery. In the process, 2 congressmen assaulted reporters. (1 “catawompously chawed up” a reporter’s finger)

What’s important here: being unable to elect a Speaker shows severe dysfunction. It’s easy to overlook the highly problematic & potentially dramatic implications of our Speaker problem.

#SpeakerOfTheHouse #politics

If this policy is true, anyone with enough money to run a verified Twitter bot farm can buy the suppression of any account and bury any story they dislike.

That’s the end. Right there.

#Twitter