Nancy Pelosi's successor?

[Maxwell]

Here's the sad thing - I can't think of one person in the house who would be good for that role. I imagined Chris Van Hollen would take it, and now he's a Senator. I then imagined Xavier Beccerra, and now he's Cali Attorney General. God damn it CAN NOT be Steny Hoyer, so who?

lol Clyburn. I genuinely do not think Tim Ryan is up to the job. Until his recent endorsement of Fake Democrats in New York, I kind of liked the prospect of Speaker Ellison. Crowley is awful, Richard Neal strikes me as a random liberal white dude.

Dark horse prospect - I like John Yarmuth of Kentucky. He's strong on a lot of issues that grassroots progressives care about, he's from a state where there are people that Democrats just need to understand better, seems like a hard worker. I'm not sure of how much of a speaker he could be, but I think he'd be a good face to put on the national stage.

My list now:

1. John Yarmuth
2. Keith Ellison
3. Tim Ryan

Anyone else is kind of disappointing even CONSIDERING that Nancy Pelosi sounds worse and worse every day.

[Maxwell]

Roughly geographically, it's time for a Democratic leader from either the Northeast or the South-

Pelosi (West)
Gephardt (Midwest)
Foley (West)
Wright (South)
O'Neill (Northeast)
Albert (South)
McCormack (Northeast)
Rayburn (South)

ahhh yeah the tars are aligning for Yarmuth.