Second, the ONLY way out of this mess is for a power-sharing mechanism and compromise with House Democrats. But will Republicans do this given the expected backlash from people with hilarious sounding last names like Gaetz, Crane, Buck and Good? I doubt it. PLEASE NOTE: Democratic House Leader, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, has the numbers to be speaker, if, and it's a humungous if, moderate Republicans bite the political bullet and do a shared arrangement. Of course, its politics, and Republicans will have to guarantee/give some concessions - including leadership of key committees.
But for all of the history and importance of McCarthy's ouster, at its core the Speaker fandango was and is in many ways an idiotic sideshow. It is an even more dysfunctional and dumb attempt by a handful of Republicans to use a quirk in House rules to defy the overwhelming bulk of their conference who, judging by their votes, were satisfied with McCarthy's leadership and wanted him to keep the Speaker's job. And too, the real story isn't about Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy. It's about some 50 or more ultra-radical MAGA Republicans - "radical" because they simply don't believe in compromise and don't accept that it's needed to govern, even when their party holds only a slim majority in the House and must deal with a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Democrat in the White House. Welcome to dysfunction for dummies. So, going forward the lessons of the McCarty Debacle is in many ways about the majority of House Republicans who haven't yet figured out a way to deal with and reign in the crazy, yahoos within their own party. One of the concessions McCarty made to these extremists to win the speakership also made it easier for them to kick him out of the speaker's chair.(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
