Politics: What the Recent Speaker Fight Says about Republicans

While I don’t know how much information about this post contains details that happened after the date that I reverse scheduled this for, I still feel that this contains information worth sharing. You see, Matt Gaetz made a vote to oust the current Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. And this occurred right around the time that Ukraine needed more aid.

 

Now it could be easy for some to blame the Democrats for this. But they just helped McCarthy and then he immediately turns on them. They aren’t going to let him keep his speakership after this. Why would they? He just bit the hand that fed him.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4235808-democrats-say-they-wont-save-mccarthy-speakership/

 

Indeed, with the way Republicans love to infight constantly, with only a small minority of their own party able to make the ouster happen, the way they couldn’t easily replace Kevin with a new speaker, the fact that they couldn’t find a nominee outside of the sedition caucus, the fact that it took four nominees before they found someone, and the fact that Trump steamrolled a lot of the votes, you are going to have to point out how any of this is Democrats’ fault.

 

The Republicans voting to get rid of McCarthy: Andy Biggs, Ken Buck, Tim Burchett, Eli Crane, Matt Gaetz, Bob Good, Nancy Mace, and Matt Rosendale.

 

Patrick McHenry was the first ever internim speaker of the House. It must not be in the line of succession or have any real power since he couldn’t really do anything of any real power in this role. He also couldn’t be the next pick for speaker as he was picked for this role by Kevin and they clearly didn’t want Kevin so why would they pick someone Kevin wanted?

 

Steve Scalise attempt: He seemed like the next in line for the role so it only made sense that he would try to get the speakership which was seemingly rightfully his. But many people didn’t want him and since enough people were against him, it never happened.

 

Jim Jordan attempt: Perhaps the most egregious attempt out of all of them, he is quite infamous and is one of the more controversial Republicans in office today. Somehow, it was his own party that couldn’t get behind him even though he could have done more to get into that role. I’m glad that it wasn’t him elected to office.

 

Tom Emmer attempt: He might have been the best choice out of all of them since he is the only one of the four not to be in the sedition caucus. But he could never make much of an effort to help himself and get a win as he tried the least and shortest out of this group.

 

Mike Johnson success: While Democrats were likely to find a problem with any new speaker (just like how Republicans thought that Nancy Pelosi was a problem), it wasn’t that long for others to find out some of the issue with him. And there are plenty issues with him. We’ll find out more about them in the future. He was just more of an obscure person at first.

 

The Republicans screwed the country over for a while and maybe could have unintentionally shelved the impeachment into Biden that was forgotten about for a while. That’s what the whole speakership debacle says about Republicans. I’ll talk more about this in my next seditious countdown post in my Good Fight blog.