I agree it is outrageous, but that’s exactly what Gaetz did - worked with Dems to take down McCarthy. So of course yu can expect any ~10 member sub group to be able to blackmail the whole caucus now.
“I agree it is outrageous, but that’s exactly what Gaetz did - worked with Dems to take down McCarthy.”
Exactly what “concessions” did Gaetz make? What did he promise the Democrats?
Logic has gone out of style on FR. Politics is the art of the possible. Politics is about addition, not subtraction. But mention that these days, and you get denounced as a Rino, or worse, by folks who demand a result not possible given the results of the last election, and who work very hard indeed to insure that they have as few allies as possible.
This sub member blackmail has been going on since McCarthy was elected speaker.
Wonder why McCarthy made promises and then had to reverse himself?
Guys like Rodgers telling him if he did not roll over to their RINO demands, they would file their own motion to vacate the chair and depose him.
McCarthy was put in an untenable position that essentially makes the House ungovernable and allows the Democrats to create their own coalition with Republicans.