All About the Money: House Republicans at War
The turmoil of House Republicans, divided by factions and feuds and played out before the public, shows a party’s inability to govern at a time when America’s commitments are tested abroad, and while a government shutdown looms in just five weeks.
While Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and arch-rival Benny Gantz have formed a wartime unity government, as was effectively the case in World War II when Franklin Roosevelt invited GOP luminaries Henry Stimson and Frank Knox to take top posts, Republicans in the “peoples House” cannot even pick a Speaker from their own ranks.
They are the confirmation of an axiom made famous by Lyndon Johnson: “Any jackass can kick a barn down. But it takes a carpenter to build one.” LBJ said that without ever having met Newt Gingrich or Tim Eyman.
The far-right deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for daring to agree on a continuing resolution which kept the federal government going for less than two months. The caucus failed to support Rep. Steve Scalise as his successor, even though the staunchly conservative Louisiana Republican once described himself as “David Duke without the baggage.” (Duke is a former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.)
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