Three failed ballots are a reminder: House Republicans have no problem with mutinying against their supposed leaders.
The first day of the new Congress opened and closed yesterday — and there is no speaker of the House. California Republican Kevin McCarthy failed on three consecutive ballots to get the majority needed to take up the speaker's gavel, leaving the chamber in limbo. It's easy (and fun) to make fun of McCarthy, who became the first party leader to lose multiple rounds of voting for speaker in nearly a century. But it's not clear that any other Republican can do much better once taking up the speaker's suite in the Capitol. In the last three decades, a fundamental disconnect has arisen between the requirements of the speakership and the political dynamics within the House Republican Conference. This is a preview of Hayes Brown's latest article. Read their full column here. |
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