Representative Kevin McCarthy suffered public mortification when a real strongman, Donald Trump, once referred to him as “My Kevin,” a humiliating sobriquet that demonstrated one man’s suzerainty over another in America’s most public power game.
For in his degrading desire for the job of presiding over the “People’s House,” Mr. McCarthy has armed his greatest and gravest critics with the power – actually worse than that: the mere prerogative – of bringing him down and thrusting the chamber into the kind of chaos that dominated American public life this week.
The spectacle was, in a way, a reprise of the bedlam that consumed Capitol Hill precisely two years ago, when a mob besieged the lawmakers gathered to affirm the election of Joe Biden to the Write House. By agreeing to include several members of the Freedom Caucus on the Rules Committee – a powerful panel ordinarily packed with lawmakers beholden to Speakers and reliable sentinels of their will – he has relinquished considerable power over the flow of legislation onto the floor and the conditions in which debate is conducted.
When, for example, a mass of self-styled reformers surged into office in the wake of the Watergate scandal in 1974, the group numbered 49 – more than double the size of the 2023 rebels and a set of lawmakers who eagerly aligned themselves with senior members of the Democratic caucus and portrayed themselves as progressives. The last of those “Watergate babies,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, left office only days ago.
Actually a few forced the hand of deep state establishment, the career politicians to guarantee a return to true SERVING for We the People
A TRAITOR as speaker of Congress. He deserves a Room in a Penitentiary. A TRAITOR of the American Constitution. A KILLER that helped the Genocide of the American people to Covid. The GOP must be declared as Home-Grown Terrorists party like Al-Qaeda. TRAITORS!
Agreed G&M. Power of the majority should never be checked even within the rules set by the regime.
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