The Republican Party looks incapable of governing (they make for a great alternative to reality TV, though).
The encore to the sore-loseritis of 2020 and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2022 involves the House majority being unable to pick a speaker. Hakeem Jeffries now stands as the king vote-getter among the candidates, volunteer and conscripted, for speaker.
Should the GOP choose, say, Steve Scalise instead of Kevin McCarthy, then maybe conservatives agree in hindsight that this all worked out in the end.
But with Democrats in control of the Senate and the presidency, why, at this time, play such high-stakes poker?
The upside of capturing the speakership for someone more palatable than McCarthy appears, at least at this time, much smaller than the downside of handing over the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries or — huh! — Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, or some other middle finger the Democrats insert, with the help of a handful of Republicans, in the very middle of the chamber.
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