Rearranging the Deck Chairs?
The fight over House Speaker could be a Hobson’s choice, but…
A lot of Republicans may be wondering what the hell just happened.
Before we get into the GOP infighting, however, let’s lay the blame for the chaos in the House squarely where it belongs—on the Democrat’s doorstep. Recall, it was Nancy Pelosi who arbitrarily altered longstanding rules and stacked committees with only the members she wanted.1
This while corrupt partisan prosecutors threatened political opponents with bankruptcy, if not jail time. No doubt, to help distract attention away from the most fundamental assault on the nation’s economy and culture in history. From $33 trillion in debt to defunding police to redefining gender.
It goes without saying the media are predictably having a field day observing the Republican agonistes. But the kind of existential crisis the radicals have wrought is bound to elicit a reaction—or even an overreaction from the other side of the aisle. In this case, the fear that GOP leadership wasn’t giving as good as it got.
And, of course, Democrats were just as eager to go along in booting Speaker Kevin McCarthy as they were in ‘cheering’ (that’s being generous) an errant if not corrupt Census count that might have precipitated this week’s palace intrigue.
As I noted almost a year ago in Jason’s Newsletter, the Census Bureau “overcounted the population of eight states, all but one of which is a blue state…Texas and Florida should each have received an additional seat in the House. Rhode Island and Minnesota should each have lost a congressional seat—but didn’t. Colorado was given an additional seat it didn’t deserve.”2