If McCarthy doesn't become speaker.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

I assume he would resign, right? Which will help us for awhile because the house will become 221-213 until Newsom calls a special election. I mean no way he would want to stay around after getting rejected. Yeah, I know that he stayed in Congress the first time he seeked the role when Ryan got it, but this time is different.

[Phoenix61]

1. Why would he resign? nt

[live love laugh]

2. Resign? Republicans don't resign they plot takeovers.

[Skittles]

3. a person of honor may resign

we're talking about REPUKES here though

[H2O Man]

9. +1

[tritsofme]

4. I don't think he would resign. The real question is if he slinks to the backbenches

or diminishes himself for another stint at majority leader.

Not sure Stefanik would let him get away with that one after his failure.

[relayerbob]

5. Why would he resign?

That won't happen

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

6. Because he would basically be taking a demotion

And not a passing of the torch type one and becoming a wise mentor like Pelosi is taking. Why would he want to stick around as either Majority Leader (second in charge) or even just a regular member of the House when he was supposedly next in line to be Speaker. I just think it would be humiliating to him and he wouldn’t want to stick around for that.

[relayerbob]

8. He has no ethics or standards

He has two goals - money and power. He has little else to provide those to him. If he stays with the new GQP agreement that the new Speaker can be tossed on a whim, he’ll just view it as biding his time.

[Joinfortmill]

7. We can hope.

[tinrobot]

10. David Jolly thinks he'll be gone if he fails to become speaker

Regardless of all this, Jolly predicted that the next few days would see McCarthy's final downfall.

"McCarthy is done, done, done," he said. "He's not going to be next Speaker. I don't think Kevin McCarthy is in the House of Representatives a year from now. I think he is gone."

https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-vote-2659063599/

I sure hope he's right.

[Blue Owl]

11. Fuck, at this point they might as well stick Santos in there...