If I understand correctly, the problem is not having the numbers to support it. The problem is that the crazies managed to negotiate a controlling share of the rules committee, which can ultimately control which items are allowed to proceed to the floor.
This has always been one of the biggest problems with Congress. We'd almost certainly have had a comprehensive immigration package years ago when one passed the Senate, if not for John Boehner preventing it from getting a vote in the House (where it would likely have passed). Why deprive your party of a politically salient issue to gripe over by actually solving a problem? It pisses me off to no end the way something can have ample support in Congress and yet a small number of jerks in leadership positions can keep it buried.
The only saving grace here, if you want to think of it as such, is the instability of this whole deal given that any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, can force a referendum on McCarthy at any moment. How that would actually shake out though, and whether it would be for better or worse, is anyone's guess.
If I understand correctly, the problem is not having the numbers to support it. The problem is that the crazies managed to negotiate a controlling share of the rules committee, which can ultimately control which items are allowed to proceed to the floor.
This has always been one of the biggest problems with Congress. We'd almost certainly have had a comprehensive immigration package years ago when one passed the Senate, if not for John Boehner preventing it from getting a vote in the House (where it would likely have passed). Why deprive your party of a politically salient issue to gripe over by actually solving a problem? It pisses me off to no end the way something can have ample support in Congress and yet a small number of jerks in leadership positions can keep it buried.
The only saving grace here, if you want to think of it as such, is the instability of this whole deal given that any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, can force a referendum on McCarthy at any moment. How that would actually shake out though, and whether it would be for better or worse, is anyone's guess.