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Burning Down The House
Author: Raine
Date: 01/05/2023 13:29:56
"The only place that isn't functioning, is the place where Republicans were able to win, and that... should be a telling sign for voters ahead in future elections"
Mathew Dowd, Political Strategist You can listen here. Dowd makes an excellent point. It's not just the 20 insurrectionists (5 of whom sought a pardon from TFG) who are stopping the House from electing Kevin McCarthy as the speaker - it's the entire caucus. Their caucus has not held people accountable for what they did, not only on January 6 but for the disruption of the past few years. We are witnessing the result of unaccountability and a governance "policy" of "owning the libs".
They had weeks (if not months) to plan for a peaceful power transfer in the House. Instead, the insurrectionists are preventing it from happening. Right now, we technically have a partial government shutdown. As of January 13, Congressional Staffers will stop receiving paychecks. The attack on January 6 was the insurrection part of the coup attempt. This chaos appears to be a continuation of it. For the next two years, we will see more of this insanity. The people in that chamber, trying to elect a Speaker of the House, are all out there telling the media that this is just democracy in action and they are being transparent about it.
That is a lie. Yes, McCarthy is desperate to have the gavel, but he is just as craven as the rest of them who say what they say for fundraising clickbait. They all want to scorch the earth. What we are witnessing is an abject failure at self-governance. It isn't unlike the fake elector scheme on January 6 to be honest. Take a look at who the alternatives to McCarthy have been and you will see they were election deniers and participants on January 6. It's right-wing anarchy, and they brought it on themselves. So for now, we can smile along with the Dems, but this is going to have real-life consequences for all of us. It won't stop until the anarchistic insurrectionists are held to account. Just re-read the bolded above, that's just the stuff we know.
& 
Raine
Mathew Dowd, Political Strategist You can listen here. Dowd makes an excellent point. It's not just the 20 insurrectionists (5 of whom sought a pardon from TFG) who are stopping the House from electing Kevin McCarthy as the speaker - it's the entire caucus. Their caucus has not held people accountable for what they did, not only on January 6 but for the disruption of the past few years. We are witnessing the result of unaccountability and a governance "policy" of "owning the libs".
They had weeks (if not months) to plan for a peaceful power transfer in the House. Instead, the insurrectionists are preventing it from happening. Right now, we technically have a partial government shutdown. As of January 13, Congressional Staffers will stop receiving paychecks. The attack on January 6 was the insurrection part of the coup attempt. This chaos appears to be a continuation of it. For the next two years, we will see more of this insanity.
What has been on display is a perfect storm of misjudgment and anti-institutionalism. The failure of House Republicans to properly assess the political climate (and their own vulnerabilities) in the 2022 midterm elections left them with a narrow majority rather than the “red wave” margin they expected. That empowered the band of rebels, whose sole objective, at least for a handful, appears simply to be to blow up both the party and Congress for their own gain.
(snip)
When a new speaker is chosen, McCarthy or someone else, that person will enter the office weakened and compromised, presiding over a majority that is not just fragile but also highly volatile. This is a dangerous combination not just for the party but for the country. The power of the Freedom Caucus rebels, who have demonstrated an insatiable appetite to claim power and extract concessions, means that even the most basic but essential functions of Congress — among them passing a budget and raising the debt ceiling limit to cover previously authorized spending — will be difficult to achieve.
An Achilles’ heel of today’s Republican Party has been its inability to govern when in power. Anti-government antagonism, which has grown steadily over the past decade, has often rendered the party incapable of separating bold political claims and aspirations — repealing the Affordable Care Act, for example — from the grittier but less satisfying work of finding compromise. Many of the new members have come to Washington not to legislate but to stop legislation, to “drain the swamp,” as former president Donald Trump has put it. Performative politics have become more appealing (and often more rewarding, in terms of fame and campaign contributions) than working in the trenches to produce results.
That is a lie. Yes, McCarthy is desperate to have the gavel, but he is just as craven as the rest of them who say what they say for fundraising clickbait. They all want to scorch the earth. What we are witnessing is an abject failure at self-governance. It isn't unlike the fake elector scheme on January 6 to be honest. Take a look at who the alternatives to McCarthy have been and you will see they were election deniers and participants on January 6. It's right-wing anarchy, and they brought it on themselves. So for now, we can smile along with the Dems, but this is going to have real-life consequences for all of us. It won't stop until the anarchistic insurrectionists are held to account. Just re-read the bolded above, that's just the stuff we know.
& Raine
