Their plan to gum up the election might as well be coming from the RNC As the saga of the House Speaker’s race continues into week, it’s obvious that this Republican House majority is more dysfunctional than at any time in history. This week was supposed to yield a new crop of candidates, among them at least one or two who could bring about a consensus among the moderates (sic)who hail from Biden districts, the institutionalists who allegedly care about maintaining the US system of government and the nihilists who just want to blow everything up. It’s not going well. There have been a number of shifting demands from these various factions but we now know that the one inviolate criterion is that any new Speaker must be an election denier. Yesterday, their leader Donald Trump made it very clear that he will not allow anyone who has ever crossed him in that way or any other can be allowed to have gavel. So when Tom Emmer, R-Mn., who voted to certify the election on January 6th, was nominated for the job, Trump trashed him on Truth Social for failing to understand “the Power of the Trump Endorsement” then reportedly got on the phone with members to make his wishes known. Within the hour told a confidante, “he’s done. It’s over. I killed him.” It’s tempting to see this as a simple Trump ego power play. Emmer didn’t kowtow to the Big Lie so he wanted revenge and he got it. I’m…