AOC Asks The Questions Even D.C. Journalatti Could Ask

 AOC Xeets:

So let me get this straight: Republicans are threatening to remove their own Speaker, impeach the President, and shut down the government on September 30th - disrupting everyday people’s paychecks and general public operations.

For what? I don’t think even they know. Chaos vibes

As others on Xitter have pointed out, McCarthy could just sit this out and let them vote to "vacate the chair."  The House GOP then needs 100% of the votes, or some Dems to make up the difference, in order to elect anyone else.  Constitution says we have to have a Speaker of the House.  It's the only constitutionally mandated office in the Constitution, except for POTUS and VPOTUS, and the Speaker is in Art. I.

So who you gonna call?  Unless that person can get a majority, it's round-robin voting chaos all over again, while the government shuts down and nobody can do any business like issue more subpoenas they could issue anyway.  Like emptywheel said:

One more thing about the fucking IDIOCY of reporters repeating Big Kev's claim that he's doing this to get subpoena power. 

Who're you going to subpoena? Devon Archer? Again?

Eric Schwerin, again?

How about all the people Ron Johnson subpoenaed YEARS AGO? 

Kevin is trying to placate the GOP House while not actually doing anything at all.  He needs to do that, it seems, in order to avoid a government shutdown.  The irony is, there may be enough House GOP members (Ken Buck! Come on down!) to join with the Dems to save the budget and pay the bills.  

Or not.  In which case the chaos comes down on the doughty heads of Max Gaetz and Chip Roy and Ronny Jackson, all of whom will survive it (Ted Cruz has, over and over and over again).  But the "moderates" in the House, the ones in districts Biden won?

Say goodnight, Gracie.

At least kabuki and performance art have the virtue of being artistic, when done right.   Then again, Twain wasn't too enamored of the Congress in the 19th century; nor Dickens of the House in Parliament.  And he saw it up close and reportorial.  Would that our journalists today had half the grit of Dickens.