.NoahCRothman: Minority Leader McCarthy ignores his party's most embarrassing members and can't keep his conference in line. Maybe it's time for Republicans to consider a plan B.
That is going to make it harder for Republicans to present themselves to voters as an unobjectionable vehicle of opposition to the Democratic president’s agenda. And if McCarthy thinks maintaining discipline in the minority is hard, just wait until he becomes speaker of the House.In the majority, the House GOP will have to present a positive agenda to contrast with Joe Biden’s.
For example, McCarthy has devoted inordinate attention to what he alleges is the persecution of his conference’s most irresponsible members: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona. Democrats removed both members from their committees after they repeatedly made odious spectacles of themselves. Greene was the subject of
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