Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, told reporters Thursday after a closed-door House GOP meeting that he wants Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to tell Republicans what concessions they’ll have to make for Democrats to help them elect a speaker—underscoring the chaotic race to find a new House leader as Republican options grow short to overcome an intraparty impasse.
The funny part is that even if the Republicans choose a speaker, they still need to draft a moderate enough bill to get past Manchin, Sinema, and Biden. The hard liners will never get some of the things they want, and would have gotten way more if they unified behind someone like McCarthy. Instead, they risk having their moderates side with Democrats and concede quite a lot, humiliating the party, or they’ll be blamed for a government shutdown, humiliating the party.
All this has more to do with big egos and personal grievances than any important policy differences. They’re all fascists at this point, and they can’t even unify for their mutual advantage because they made selfishness and asshole behavior a prerequisite for office.