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Created
Fri, 09/06/2023 - 05:00
Updated
Fri, 09/06/2023 - 05:00
The Washington Post: 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. They weren’t doing anything real anyway. All they had on the agenda were messaging bills for the wingnut faction. So, in reality, the MAGA Reps are just denying themselves the ability to say they passed the “Save Our Gas Stoves Act” on Fox News. They didn’t have the guts to raise the Motion to Vacate and truly challenge McCarthy mainly because nobody else wants the job. So they are doing a little kabuki Dance to pretend they have power in circumstances that don’t matter. Hookay. But the “Republicans in disarray”…