{"id":534710,"date":"2023-01-04T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-gop-must-stop-this-madness-over-speaker-and-go-after-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:03:28","slug":"house-gop-must-stop-this-madness-over-speaker-and-go-after-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-gop-must-stop-this-madness-over-speaker-and-go-after-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"#House GOP must stop this madness over speaker and go after Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41c7aa7c76b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41c7aa7c76b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-gop-must-stop-this-madness-over-speaker-and-go-after-biden\/#%E2%80%9CHouse_GOP_must_stop_this_madness_over_speaker_and_go_after_Biden%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;House GOP must stop this madness over speaker and go after Biden&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHouse_GOP_must_stop_this_madness_over_speaker_and_go_after_Biden%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;House GOP must stop this madness over speaker and go after Biden&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As generations of students learned in typing class, \u201cNow is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.\u201d It\u2019s a pity so many House Republicans either missed that class or forgot they were supposed to help their own party, not the other one.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP\u2019s inability to elect a Speaker despite having a majority is more than a personal rebuke to the presumed leader, Kevin McCarthy of California. It\u2019s a mark of incompetence and a worrisome sign the party is so fractured it will not be able to unite to accomplish anything of significance for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being a check on the White House and the Democrat-controlled Senate and using its investigative power to probe President Biden and his family\u2019s corrupt business deals, the chaos suggests too many Republicans are freelancing and engaged in a fools\u2019 errand masquerading as an act of principle.<\/p>\n<p>As such, it\u2019s amateur hour and a mystery over what the holdouts stand for, in part because they don\u2019t have a viable alternative to McCarthy. In the first roll call, they scattered their 19 of the 222 votes among five or six other people. In the second round, all 19 voted for Ohio\u2019s Jim Jordan \u2014 after Jordan gave a stirring floor speech in favor of McCarthy!<\/p>\n<p>By the third round, 20 voted for Jordan, even as he continued to support McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>This is madness. The reasons for opposing McCarthy seem either vague or more personal than substantive, especially after he made so many concessions to win their votes. But it was never enough because their opposition is, at this late stage, fundamentally incoherent. Most important, a shootout in a lifeboat is not a persuasive argument that the party is ready to govern.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?w=915\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25228122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1830 1830w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1373 1372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=915 915w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=458 457w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-506.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\"\/><figcaption>McCarthy is viewed as a skilled fundraiser and Republicans picked up seats in the last two elections when he was minority leader. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The clown show was a gift to Democrats, with all 212 of their members united in backing Brooklyn\u2019s Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker. That was at least 15 more votes than McCarthy ever got, even though the GOP has 10 more members. No wonder Nancy Pelosi looked so h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y. Having stepped down from leadership, she could relax and enjoy watching the other party squander its power in a childish temper tantrum from the likes of Matt Gaetz, a Florida rep investigated for underage sex trafficking. <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi might also have felt vindicated in the way she always managed to keep Dems united, even when they also had a narrow majority. Recall that AOC and her little squad of far lefties made a lot of noise, but never felt the need \u2014 or the courage \u2014 to block anything Pelosi regarded as important.<\/p>\n<p>At this rate, I wouldn\u2019t be totally shocked to see the amateurs on the GOP side screw up and accidentally stumble into a scenario where Jeffries gets elected Speaker!<\/p>\n<p>That would serve them right, though it would be a gross disservice to the tens of millions of Americans who voted for a Republican House in hopes it could slam the brakes on Biden\u2019s disastrous policies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-509.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hakeem Jeffries \" class=\"wp-image-25227807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-509.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-509.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-509.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Incoming House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is acknowledged on the first day of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol Building. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/Anna Moneymaker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Needless to say, the Dems\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> handmaidens were giddy Tuesday as Republicans shot themselves in one foot, then reloaded to shoot themselves in the other foot.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is to claim McCarthy is an ideal leader. Amiable to a fault, he\u2019ll never be confused with a visionary Newt Gingrich, the one modern GOP Speaker who united the party around a set of clear principles and forced a Democratic president into significant compromises on spending and other issues. <\/p>\n<p>When Bill Clinton declared in his 1996 State of the Union address that \u201cthe era of big government is over,\u201d it was only because of Gingrich\u2019s leadership \u2014 not just in winning a majority, but in uniting it.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, McCarthy is viewed as a skilled fundraiser and Republicans picked up seats in the last two elections when he was minority leader. That includes 20 pickups in the 2020 election, where Donald Trump lost to Biden. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-507.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich\" class=\"wp-image-25227810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-507.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-507.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/lowry-rodeo-507.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is known as a modern GOP speaker who united the party around a set of clear principles. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And while the red wave predicted for last year failed to materialize, the party did win enough seats to fire Pelosi. But the whole point of gaining a majority seems to be lost on the holdouts. <\/p>\n<p>As Jordan, a leader of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said in his remarks supporting McCarthy, the failure of Republicans to unite would mean more trillion-dollar spending blowouts and that those behind the \u201cweaponization\u201d of the government against the public\u2019s First Amendment rights would never be held accountable. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my friends here on this side of the aisle, I would just say this. The differences we may have . . . pale in comparison to the differences between us and the left, which now unfortunately controls the other party,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cSo we had better come together and fight for these key things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s absolutely right, but that he even needs to remind his own party of the stakes now is distressing. 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