A Note of Puzzlement on Kevin McCarthy's Strategy
I read this as McCarthy tacking left while trying not to say so, and throwing Ukraine under the bus—for the moment at least—to give MAGA-heads & those with embarrassing videos from the Red Square...
I read this as McCarthy tacking left while trying not to say so, and throwing Ukraine under the bus—for the moment at least—to give MAGA-heads & those with embarrassing videos from the Red Square a face-saving way to declare victory. But I do not really know—and if anybody really knows, they are not talking…
Is McCarthy making this a vote of “no confidence” in the parliamentary sense
? Or is he actually making a deal with the Democrats while saying he is not? Do remember that Boehner and Pelosi had an effective cospeakership that dared not say its name for quite a long time:
And is the House gridlocked if there is no Speaker? Or are there continuity-of-government work-arounds?
And what is the best thing to read that gives insight into what is really going on here?
I am skeptical that McCarthy has a strategy. He's just stumbling from one thing to the next.
¨But I do not really know—and if anybody really knows, they are not talking…¨
McCarthy doesn´t know. McCarthy is surviving.
¨Is McCarthy making this a vote of “no confidence” in the parliamentary sense¨
The problem is that we have a duopoly system and not a multi-party system. According to Republicans there would be a Red Wave and the Dems would be swept away leaving a huge Republican majority, as in a state government Mississippi or Texas. What actually happened was the election delivered a tiny majority of Not Democrats. There´s a pro-McCarthy majority of the Republican caucus that does not command an absolute majority of the House, a large Democratic minority and a tiny rump that comprises the Lunatic Neo-Confederate Fire-eater Caucus that mostly just wants to be on TV. That latter group hates Democrats, but they also hate Republicans, and essentially they just hate everybody. Their conception is that if they can bring down the Federal Government then they can somehow seize control and rule the ashes of the United States. Bringing down the federal government is not something they can pull off, and again, they just want to be on TV.
McCarthy is essentially trying to govern with a parliamentary minority plus some loons. Even McCarthy has limits, so he´s giving them their shot and they´ll lose the vote and we´ll be back at square one in 45 days. Essentially he´s having to limp through this parliamentary minority in the hope that the next election will deliver a REAL parliamentary majority and maybe a Republican Senate and President, and he can do the real thing he wants to do, whatever that is. God knows. I think he mostly just wants to be Speaker.
The rest is performative bullshit.
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nobody knows what the real story is because the real story is right in front of our faces and basically too stupid to be believed