Opinion by Karen Tumulty: Have Republicans devalued their supposed leaders that the job of speaker isn’t even worth having? The forces that brought them here go as far back as the 2010 midterms, which saw the arrival of the tea party movement in Congress.
It’s not clear whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy is going to get the job for which he has yearned and debased himself for years. But one thing did become evident amid the bedlam in the House on Tuesday, when for the first time in a century the chamber was incapable of choosing a speaker on the first ballot: Whoever the hapless soul holding the speaker’s gavel turns out to be, that person is in for two years of hell.
McCarthy deluded himself into believing it was possible to buy off a vehement group of hard-liners by embracing their MAGA agenda and offering concessions on House rules that would render the speaker’s job more tenuous, including by making it easier for a small group of dissidents to call a snap vote to toss out the speaker. All of which only underscored McCarthy’s weakness and the contempt in which he is held by the faction he has courted so arduously.
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