House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca) made a deal to get the House Speaker job that most of KNEW he couldn’t keep…..
The US House of Representatives is run a certain way…..
It IS part of a puzzle that the guys back centuries ago put together that requires dances and compromise ….
Back in school it was explained and ‘Checks and Balances’….
The Rightwingnuts in the US House REALY don’t accept that….
(McCarthy says some of these people in HIS party don’t even knw what they actually want?)
They want to ‘Rule’ on their own…..
McCarthy last week worked WITH Democrats and the Democratic President to hammer out a ‘deal’ to approve the budget spending for 2023 and YES…..RAISE the Debt Ceiling which is amount of money the American can stand to borrow to pay its bills….
McCarthy’s pocket adversaries are now throwing a monkey wrench in the running odf the entire House actions and shutting down the nation’s lwegislative process….
The Grand ole Party Civil War continues….
It cost the party in last years Midterm elections….
One would expect it will cost them MORE next November….
Ad this to Trump’s woes and what do you get for the parties future?
Paralysis, limbo, stalemate — any of them describe the state of the House of Representatives this week.
On Wednesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sent the House home until Monday after spending an entire day talking with a group of far-right conservatives who held up all floor action over their dissatisfaction with the debt limit bill signed into law last week, among other grievances.
They failed to reach any path forward.
McCarthy told reporters that he’s not exactly sure what they want and that different members are asking for different things.
This is a significant challenge to McCarthy’s leadership and his ability to govern and run the House. While it’s not as dire as the motion to vacate — the procedural maneuver by which a single House Republican could trigger a vote to depose McCarthy as speaker — supporters of the rebels say that their tactic of bringing the chamber to a halt by voting against House rules could be just as damaging.
Rank-and-file Republicans are not happy — this is an understatement — about a small group grinding the entire body to a halt.
“This is, in my opinion, political incontinence on our part. We are wetting ourselves … and can’t do anything about it,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said. “This is insane. This is not the way a governing majority is expected to behave, and, frankly, I think there’ll be a political cost to it.”….