It's like playing poker. The player who never bluffs will quickly signal to the other players when their hand is strong or weak.
It's like watching the football game when one team has no running game. When all they do is pass, the defense quickly figures out that they don't need to keep the cornerbacks on the defensive line.
If McCarthy comes to believe that the Gaetz wing of the party are paper tigers then he will slowly begin reneging on the deals he made to become the Speaker. Making a motion to vacate will keep that doubt in McCarthy's mind that the right wing of the party is serious about holding McCarthy to his agreements.
They might not win the votes, but they eventually lose the game by not even making the motions.
-PJ
Good point.
And at the end of the day, if Gaetz and some others stand strong, McCarthy needs the democrats to hold on.
If he makes that deal with that devil, the democrats run the House for the remainder of this term.
McCarthy becomes a beotch of Pelosi and Jefferies.