GOP Disfunction Continues Unabated.
“There is no longer a cohesive Republican Party. There’s a pre-Trump GOP and a post-Trump GOP, living together uneasily. They may be roommates but they’re not married.
Which is why it was unintentionally unironic for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), after watching 20 Republicans oppose his candidacy for speaker, to lament what could come next in the House. “No one in our conference wants to see any type of coalition government with Democrats,” Jordan told reporters after the first vote Tuesday.
Yet that’s precisely what his own conference has become — a would-be coalition government, if under the same banner. The fitful and still fruitless negotiations that have taken place since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster two weeks ago are closer to a European-style coalition-led parliament struggling to be born than a factional dispute within an American party.”
Many predicted the Republican takeover of the House would result in chaos and that appears to have happened after they voted to oust their own with no plan B replacement. The GOP now struggles to bring in various factions to coalesce around a single candidate after Rep. Jim Jordan failed to secure the necessary votes. All eyes are now on the party’s next move which may include renominating Rep. Jordan or going with a more moderate candidate not referred to as a ‘legislative terrorist’.
