I think, by not saving McCarthy, they allowed the GOP to lurch even further over the edge. They just selected a back bencher as Speaker, and this guy is as close of a caricature of a modern right winger as they come. The House GOP is about as stable as Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction". It shouldn't take that much effort to get them to do something incredibly stupid.
I think, by not saving McCarthy, they allowed the GOP to lurch even further over the edge. They just selected a back bencher as Speaker, and this guy is as close of a caricature of a modern right winger as they come. The House GOP is about as stable as Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction". It shouldn't take that much effort to get them to do something incredibly stupid.
Yea voting out McCarthy was their biggest power move to date and I'm proud of em for it (when your enemy is drowning, throw him an anvil). Hopefully the MAGA clown car keeps doing what its doing and maybe it helps Biden out next year.
It showed the cohesiveness of the Democrats under Jeffries. But I also think that the Dems have a lot more intellectual firepower than the GOP. Raskin and Schiff are smart, smart guys. Swalwell is pretty smart too and he isn't afraid to mix it up with the GOP (calling McCarthy a pussy to his face recently was a baller move). Of course, they have their own members that go off the reservation, but that's to be expected. My hope is Jeffries learned from Pelosi the benefits of playing the long game. David Frum has talked about how strategic Pelosi was as Speaker, and I think there's an episode of the Bulwark Podcast where Frum talks about this very thing. I'll go hunt it down.
I think, by not saving McCarthy, they allowed the GOP to lurch even further over the edge. They just selected a back bencher as Speaker, and this guy is as close of a caricature of a modern right winger as they come. The House GOP is about as stable as Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction". It shouldn't take that much effort to get them to do something incredibly stupid.
Yea voting out McCarthy was their biggest power move to date and I'm proud of em for it (when your enemy is drowning, throw him an anvil). Hopefully the MAGA clown car keeps doing what its doing and maybe it helps Biden out next year.
It showed the cohesiveness of the Democrats under Jeffries. But I also think that the Dems have a lot more intellectual firepower than the GOP. Raskin and Schiff are smart, smart guys. Swalwell is pretty smart too and he isn't afraid to mix it up with the GOP (calling McCarthy a pussy to his face recently was a baller move). Of course, they have their own members that go off the reservation, but that's to be expected. My hope is Jeffries learned from Pelosi the benefits of playing the long game. David Frum has talked about how strategic Pelosi was as Speaker, and I think there's an episode of the Bulwark Podcast where Frum talks about this very thing. I'll go hunt it down.
Here it is.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/david-frum-house-republicans-aim#details