QOTD -- The Republican Cauldron Of Rage

 

"...What Republicans are fighting over is whether to accept the limits of sharing power. [snip]

"The putative complaint against McCarthy’s leadership is that he advanced “incremental cultural Marxism” through government funding. Of course, no such thing exists, which means McCarthy has no way to redress the complaint. The far right is angry about the Biden administration’s continued existence and wishes to blame the leadership for this fact.

"Because this anger has no productive channel, it returns again and again in the form of internal recriminations. The House caucus during Democratic presidencies for the last quarter-century has been an endless procession of coup attempts. Gingrich was deposed for failing in his holy mission of forcing Clinton to slash government. John Boehner and Paul Ryan were driven into retirement. The House Republican caucus will be a cauldron of rage, because the party, at its core, does not believe it should be forced to share power." --  Jonathan Chait,  in the New York Magazine's Intelligencer, with a plausible explanation of the dynamic within the rotted out Republican/ Seditionist Party that's playing out in the daily humiliation of Rep. Kevin "Qevin" McCarthy, the man who won't be Speaker.  (It should be noted that the ultimate ouster of Newt Gingrich as Speaker in late 1998 was due in large part to his ethics violations, including his affair with his now third wife Callista while he was still married to his second wife.  His failure to slash government spending was not the precipitating issue in his removal;  rather it was his exposure as a serial adulterer during a critical election season in which Republicans lost seats they expected to gain.)