Posted on 12/14/2022 5:47:42 AM PST by cotton1706
The House Republican Conference is still entrenched in an internal war over whether to reinstate an arcane rule that would empower any member to bring up a vote to oust a speaker at any time.
The bitter divide is only heating up and has emerged center stage in House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s quest for 218 votes to win the position. For McCarthy’s backers, the so-called motion to vacate is seen as little more than a promise of hostage taking, a tool that could be used by the right flank to hamstring McCarthy’s ability to lead the conference and effectively govern.
“There’s a reason [the motion to vacate] already got debated. You can’t govern with a gun to your head and that is what they are asking for. It makes us highly unstable, and it lays out the potential too for Democrats to take advantage of this and create absolute chaos,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, told CNN. “There is a reason people are against it. You can scream the word accountability all you want … in the end it’s just a path to chaos, not stability, and we are going to have to be very united and very stable if we are going to govern properly. “
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“It brought us Paul Ryan! Hell yeah!”
The point is that their schemes and plans were interrupted, and they were pissed.
But you are correct that they had backup plans (see next post).
Their plan was for Boehner to retire and Eric Cantor to take over. But conservatives took out Eric Cantor, so Paul Ryan was next. And after Paul Ryan, we now get McCarthy.
Which is why we need SOMEBODY ELSE, to thwart their plans again.
That's my problem with too much of the "strategy" these days.
The goal is to piss someone off (libs, RINOs, the establishment, the media, etc.) and not much more. So you end up with a few feel good moments and no meaningful change.
“That’s my problem with too much of the “strategy” these days.
The goal is to piss someone off (libs, RINOs, the establishment, the media, etc.) and not much more. So you end up with a few feel good moments and no meaningful change.”
Well in that case, the goal wasn’t to piss the Establishment off, it was to remove a lousy, drunk, inneffectual, working-with-the-other-side speaker...in order TO GET meaningful change. But of course that didn’t happen, because Boehner and Co. had put in place a whole succession line of similar people, specifically so that NO CHANGE could possibly occur (as we can can since we’re seven years on now with the same things happening).
But we can’t just stop upsetting the apple cart. History is made by people getting in the way and saying no, that’s not happening. And that’s the importance of checks to power.
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