Think of what a bad sign of impending leadership it is when the putative Speaker is giving away things (parking spaces, offices, chairmanships, etc.) in the looming shadow of the new Congress, just to be selected.
McCarthy will be a huge mistake, if selected.
I’m not sure I know who would be better (Jim Jordan? Someone outside of the House?) but I am confident that McCarthy has signaled he’s not the one, primarily by the way he failed to capitalize on the failures of the Biden administration to achieve better results in the Midterms. He had no vision, no national theme to connect GOP candidates across the country. I have heard verbal miscues from him that are scary.
This is not the guy. Better have multiple ballots and someone else than to select this guy and regret it (a la Paul Ryan) for 2 years.
Uh, this is exactly how we got Ryan. We had a bunch of self-absorbed politicians acting out and overthrowing Boehner without any plan or strategy for who came after.
Same scenario here. Do you really think the entire Republican caucas will vote for someone more conservative than McCarthy?
McCarthy has been lining up his ducks to become speaker for many years. It’s hard to see this Gang of 9 or whatever stopping this train but good luck to them. Most likely this is just more GOPe orchestrated beltway theater for the base.