The Speaker spectacle at least gives us a break from House grandstanders trying to impeach Joe Biden or freaking out about gas stoves.Well, except for the part where Ukraine is in crisis and Israel is in crisis and the Middle East may soon be in crisis, and the stupid “debt ceiling” is about to make government shutdown and pour kerosene on all those burning crises.
Perhaps we’re all better off with them fighting amongst themselves? Yes, a foreign aid package addressing Ukraine and Israel needs to be considered in Congress, but it’s not like Speaker Jim Jordan, if such a scenario had come to pass last week, would’ve tackled these challenges in a sober and productive manner. So maybe this pause in Congress is a good opportunity for Americans to see the dysfunction of today’s GOP up close. How will a Republican Party that’s unable to pick a leader for weeks convince voters they should keep power?
A speakerless House is what Republicans did to themselves, the American people—and to us in the pundit industrial complex, who have to spend way too much time thinking and talking about some of the dreariest and least serious members of Congress.
But still, pretty much right.
I’m just gonna add this here:
And the data shows that — if you go back and look a FiveThirtyEight blog did an analysis of this a couple of years ago. When donald Trump came into office, there were 293 Republicans in Congress in the House and Senate. By the time he left, those numbers had been gutted in half."No reason; no reason at all…
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