Bipartisan discussions about how to end the two-week speaker vacancy are growing in seriousness as Republicans’ chaotic efforts to elect a permanent speaker struggle to gain traction.
Bipartisan discussions about how to end the two-week speaker vacancy are growing in seriousness as Republicans’ chaotic efforts to elect a permanent speaker struggle to gain traction.
But Kevin was supported by a majority of the Republican conference members, as was Steve, as was Gym. Neither is currently speaker because you need a majority of the whole chamber, and since the Republican majority is so slim you need almost everyone, unless you pull in a few Democrats with you.
That’s the irony of Matt Gaetz’ stunt to fire McCarthy. He claims he did it because McCarthy was making too many deals with Democrats, and he used his freedom Caucus leverage to fix that. But it may very well end up with Democrats gaining more influence, making the Freedom Caucus irrelevant in the process.
Newton’s third law right? For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the world of politics it’s called blowback.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”