Interesting. I haven't followed the leadership stuff too closely because I didn't think they would let the Republicans take the House. I did see that McCarthy just won the leadership election, but of course he needs a majority of the full House to become Speaker. The 31 votes against him are more than enough to sink him, but openly colluding with the Dems is a different beast than an internal Republican squabble.
Like the other comment said (and I guess my initial info was wrong or unclear on), it looks like McCarthy will be Speaker and Scalise will be Majority Leader. Like I said, not great, but it could be much worse. The House at least has less RINO's in it than the Senate, so I think them playing obstruction will be fine for the next few years.
They probably wanted Republicals to win very narrowly. Republicans get blamed for nothing getting done, they have no actual legislative power because getting all but one or two members unanimous is near impossible especially in this post-modern world of blackmail politics.
And it gives Democrats a defense for cheating, 'if we're such cheaters how come we didn't win the house?'.
The only thing Republicans really get is control of the committees, but Democrats don't care about any investigations because they'll just have the media refuse to cover it. Rand Paul getting the goods on Fauci will just be singing to the choir, nobody's going to cover it on the left.
Interesting. I haven't followed the leadership stuff too closely because I didn't think they would let the Republicans take the House. I did see that McCarthy just won the leadership election, but of course he needs a majority of the full House to become Speaker. The 31 votes against him are more than enough to sink him, but openly colluding with the Dems is a different beast than an internal Republican squabble.
Like the other comment said (and I guess my initial info was wrong or unclear on), it looks like McCarthy will be Speaker and Scalise will be Majority Leader. Like I said, not great, but it could be much worse. The House at least has less RINO's in it than the Senate, so I think them playing obstruction will be fine for the next few years.
They probably wanted Republicals to win very narrowly. Republicans get blamed for nothing getting done, they have no actual legislative power because getting all but one or two members unanimous is near impossible especially in this post-modern world of blackmail politics.
And it gives Democrats a defense for cheating, 'if we're such cheaters how come we didn't win the house?'.
The only thing Republicans really get is control of the committees, but Democrats don't care about any investigations because they'll just have the media refuse to cover it. Rand Paul getting the goods on Fauci will just be singing to the choir, nobody's going to cover it on the left.