The embarrassing 'humiliation' of House Republicans continues as they scramble for another speaker nominee

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suffered yet another humiliation when his House speaker nomination came up for a third vote on Friday, October 20 and he lost even more GOP votes than before. Twenty House Republicans voted against Jordan the first time, but that number increased to 22 on the second vote and 25 on the third.

House Republicans, realizing that Jordan was losing support — not gaining it —are now searching for another nominee. Democrats and Jordan's Republican foes breathed a sigh of relief when his bid for speaker went down in flames.

But MSNBC's Hayes Brown, in an op-ed published on October 23, laments that the House's GOP majority continues to be in a state of chaos — and the House is still without a speaker during a time of crisis.

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"Monday morning begins another week when there is no speaker of the House," Hayes observes. "This time, there’s not even a Republican nominee to be speaker. It took Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, three failed ballots before his colleagues pulled the plug on his candidacy."

Brown continues, "Since taking over the majority in January, House Republicans have spent the intervening months making history. I mean that in the most pejorative of senses. Every day spent without a speaker at the helm of the House is another milestone in a record that has no equal in its 232-year history. And it's a run that shows no sign of stopping."

Brown notes that the third House vote on Jordan's speaker nomination "saw him get the lowest number of votes the majority party's candidate has gotten since 1923."

The names of at least nine Republicans are being floated as possible nominees for speaker. And Brown isn't optimistic that the chaos within the GOP's House majority will subside anytime soon.

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"The humiliation of the House Republican caucus will continue until someone emerges as a candidate all sides can at least tolerate," Brown argues. "Unfortunately, though, it's not clear that such a person exists. And if that person does, then he or she is by definition smart enough to stick to the sidelines rather than become the next petty tyrant living in constant fear of being overthrown."

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Read Hayes Brown's full MSNBC op-ed at this link.