Interesting take on Kevin McCarthy's attempt to become Speaker and leader of a caucus that wants nothing to do with governing. The purpose of legislatures is to debate and pass laws. But the GOP doesn't believe in either debate of passing laws. They won't be able to pass tax cuts, because the Senate won't go along with them. Their main leverage is government shutdowns and debt ceiling hostage crises. But McCarthy won't have enough of a margin in his fractious caucus to ride herd of them.
As Marshall says, the Freedumb Caucus was Trump before Trump was Trump. They were the faction of the GOP that made Steve King a home and tormented John Boehner and Paul Ryan. They have already said they won't vote for McCarthy. Without the support of his full caucus, he's sunk. By my count, the GOP has locked in 218 seats in the House. They likely win CO-3 (sigh), CA-22 and CA-3. CA-13 is a toss-up still. I think Democrats hold on in AK-at large. So they will have between 220 and 222 seats and need a 218 for majority votes. That's three votes and the Freedumbers won't support him.
If you enjoyed the cascading and comic failures of the Boris Johnson-Liz Truss revolving door, you should enjoy watching a party that doesn't believe in government trying to run the government.
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