The vote orchestrated by a group of far-right lawmakers leaves the House without leadership. The speaker was unable to manage a bitter power struggle within the Republican Party.
Thinking about it more… It would have been an interesting tactic of the Dems to “cooperate” with some more level headed Republicans and sideline the Chaos Caucus from having anymore influence. It could have had major impact on the effectiveness of the house going forward.
As I understand it, they actually tried this. Sort of. But McCarthy was very ANTI-DEMS towards it. So they voted the way they did.
Exactly. McCarthy expected a bail out but refused to talk to them - partially because the Chaos Caucus (nice) explicitly punished him for any reaching across the aisle, but also because he was arrogant enough to think he wouldn’t be left twisting in the wind. Then he had the audacity to blame Pelosi!
He offered them nothing. Literally nothing. The senate had a bipartisan agreement in hand that everyone was ready to go with. McCarthy and his faction said “no.” They said they wanted no compromise and they got exactly what they wanted. The great irony being the 8 members of the GOP who said “no compromise” voted with the democrats against their own party.
I mean no matter how you look at this, the blame lies squarely with McCarthy and Gaetz.
I think that’s fair. My comment was a reaction to the opinion in the article that implied Dems enjoy the chaos for political advantage. As you probably understood, I don’t like it if that was really the case.
Thinking about it more… It would have been an interesting tactic of the Dems to “cooperate” with some more level headed Republicans and sideline the Chaos Caucus from having anymore influence. It could have had major impact on the effectiveness of the house going forward.
As I understand it, they actually tried this. Sort of. But McCarthy was very ANTI-DEMS towards it. So they voted the way they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEj9pnkXei0
Exactly. McCarthy expected a bail out but refused to talk to them - partially because the Chaos Caucus (nice) explicitly punished him for any reaching across the aisle, but also because he was arrogant enough to think he wouldn’t be left twisting in the wind. Then he had the audacity to blame Pelosi!
He offered them nothing. Literally nothing. The senate had a bipartisan agreement in hand that everyone was ready to go with. McCarthy and his faction said “no.” They said they wanted no compromise and they got exactly what they wanted. The great irony being the 8 members of the GOP who said “no compromise” voted with the democrats against their own party.
I mean no matter how you look at this, the blame lies squarely with McCarthy and Gaetz.
I think that’s fair. My comment was a reaction to the opinion in the article that implied Dems enjoy the chaos for political advantage. As you probably understood, I don’t like it if that was really the case.
Agreed, that would not be beneficial to anyone really. Basically a “shitty move”.
Seems like Republicans really did not leave them any other option though.
Also: the reporting of the New York Times has really nose-dived in quality the last few years.