Today’s vote for the next Speaker turned out to be even more humiliating than expected for Kevin McCarthy—and exposed the G.O.P. as a party of performative verbiage.
, he hightailed it down to Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to the disgraced instigator of a failed autogolpe. To a slave to ambition like McCarthy, though, that exercise in public self-abasement probably paled beside seeing Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, get nine votes more than he did—even though Republicans had won a narrow majority in the new House.
It says pretty much everything about today’s House G.O.P. that Jordan, a Freedom Caucus co-founder who made his bones on the right by spending two years targeting Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi attack, and who then emerged as one of’s most ardent defenders, is now a key figure in the Party establishment. Having secured the position he wants as chair of the Judiciary Committee, the Ohioan was evidently content to support McCarthy for Speaker rather than pursue the top office himself.
The irony is that McCarthy had already prostrated himself before the ultras, offering them a series of rule changes, one of which would allow just five representatives to force a vote on ousting the Speaker. Unsurprisingly, these entreaties failed. It is the essence of a revolution, especially one staged for social media and Fox News, that the revolutionaries cannot be bought off by members of the corrupt establishment.
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