Until now, the Progressive Review has been a rare place where you could have learned that you don't have to be en elected representative to be Speaker of the House. Now the Washington Post, in typical snotty fashion, admits it
Janell Ross, Washington Post - Whenever there is chatter about the next speaker, some helpful souls inevitably remind us all that the rules technically allow a non-member to serve. It's never actually happened, mind you, but it could. Desperate times might call for desperate measures, right? And it's fun to speculate!
To that end, we submit the following list, which culls some names mentioned Thursday and some of our own ideas and goes on to offer some genuine analysis of why they might make sense.
Please be advised that we are aware that none of the following are ever actually going to hold (or, in one case, regain) the speaker's gavel. But like those non-binding resolutions accompanied by extended floor speeches, we're going extend our moment thanks to a quirk of the House rules.
The possibilities Ross discusses:
Dick Cheney
Newt Gingrich
Colin Powell
Mitt Romney
Donald Trump
Kayne West
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Don Rickles, Cher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Edward Snowden, Sam Smith.
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