It never occurred to me that maybe the anti-McCarthy coup might actually have a chance to succeed but what if they did dig their heels in for a few weeks?\u00a0 Maybe the rest of the House Republicans might start wondering if maybe there were a few more candidates that almost everyone could easily agree on.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s so pleasant to dream about what might happen if our elected \u201cleaders\u201d somehow developed backbone and started acting like leaders.\u00a0 Of course, in reality most of them are either completely useless or worse.\u00a0 They vary from hacks and grifters to actual sociopaths.\u00a0 But maybe there are a few that want to do the right thing.\u00a0 And if they show some resolve and take advantage of a rare situation where the actions of a few can impact a whole institution like the present situation in the House, then maybe something unexpected and positive might result.<\/p>\n
Just for the sake of argument, suppose after a couple of weeks of yelling at each other behind closed doors, it occurs to some of the more moderate representatives that a more productive way of solving this problem would be asking each member to provide a list of names that they absolutely would refuse to vote for.\u00a0 Taking everybody\u2019s lists, they could then add up the negatives and disqualify anyone who had more than four no-votes against it.\u00a0 Whoever is left would constitute a pool of names that had the potential to be approved.\u00a0 Then after a couple of test ballots using that pool of names as the source, they could pretty quickly come up with the four or five names with the largest support and begin to do some horse trading to see who could become the Speaker.<\/p>\n
Obviously, my idea would require that most of the Republican House members were reasonable human beings.\u00a0 And we already know that\u2019s not true.\u00a0 I suspect at least half of them are nitwits.\u00a0 But I\u2019m sure that the more intelligent members of the group could persuade their more cognitively challenged brothers and sisters to follow some simple instructions.\u00a0 Surely there are three or four Republican representatives who are both competent and haven\u2019t sold their souls to Mephistopheles yet.\u00a0 Jim Jordan is one name that has come up often.\u00a0 Maybe there are some others.<\/p>\n
The point is the MAGA wing of the party has found a silver lining to the 2022 mid-term meltdown.\u00a0 Their 20-member coalition can wreck the Uniparty\u2019s party.\u00a0 Short of the GOP establishment letting a Democrat become Speaker, their backs are to the wall.\u00a0 And if they did elect a Dem then the whole charade would be exposed and the Uniparty would be truly unmasked for all to see.\u00a0 And from my point of view that would be almost as good as Jordan getting the Speaker\u2019s gavel.<\/p>\n
Now, this is all nonsense.\u00a0 None of this will happen.\u00a0 McCarthy will whine and hector the dissidents and they will be threatened by the donors who paid for their campaigns and eventually they\u2019ll vote for good old Kevin.\u00a0 But for just a day or two they did give me something to cheer about.\u00a0 Listening to all of those politicians screeching apoplectically about irresponsibility and the storied history of the \u201cPeople\u2019s House\u201d gave me a good laugh.<\/p>\n
And who knows?\u00a0 Miracles do happen.\u00a0 Very rarely.\u00a0 But not never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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