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OPINION:
With only 213 Democrats elected to the House of Representatives during last month’s midterm elections, it would seem the party will have no realistic say in the election of the chamber’s next speaker.
House Minority Leader and current frontrunner Kevin McCarthy has shown that he’ll make Faustian bargains with Donald Trump, Jim Jordan or anyone else willing to help him to retain the leadership of an increasingly fractured and intolerant Republican Party.
If House Democrats were to think outside the box, they would work to identify as few as five moderate Republicans who are genuinely loyal to the Constitution and their oaths of office while also wanting to end their party’s Trump nightmare.
As there is no constitutional requirement for the speaker be a current member of the House, Democrats with very limited Republican support could nominate and elect a moderate Republican who has demonstrated an allegiance to our Constitution and preservation of our fragile democracy. While such members of the Democrat’s loyal opposition may be few and far between, perhaps they might consider John Kasich, Larry Hogan or even Liz Cheney.
Such a Hobson’s Choice might be hard swallow for Progressives, but the alternative could be far more distasteful.
DICK NEWBERT
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
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