Dysfunction within the Republican Party has been building for at least three decades and there’s no reason to expect a solution to arrive any time soon.
Night falls on the dome of the Capitol, hours after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023 in Washington.
• Majority Leader Steve Scalise withdrew his candidacy for speaker after it became clear he didn’t have the votes to win on the House floor. But the leadership contest remains basically a sideshow. The real contest is finding a way to pass spending bills to keep the government running when a large chunk of the Republican Party would rather force a shutdown than make deals with the Senate and President Joe Biden - or even compromise with various factions within their own party.
• A bipartisan solution is almost certainly not the way out. Yes, there have been examples of such things at the state level. But the gap between the parties in the House is so large that a stable coalition would be almost impossible to put together. As congressional scholars explain it, the point isn’t to put together a one-time majority to elect a speaker. What’s needed is a long-term coalition to control the House floor every day of the session.
• Unless Republicans are ready to replace Scalise with someone who can assume the post right now, it’s time to empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry so that the House can conduct business while they figure out what comes next. McHenry and both parties have been acting as if his only job is presiding until a new speaker is chosen. But the procedure under which McHenry was chosen was a post-Sept. 11 attempt to assure continuity in government in the case of some major disaster.
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