{"id":1794745,"date":"2023-01-04T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794745"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:03:34","slug":"relax-the-gop-fight-over-house-speaker-doesnt-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/relax-the-gop-fight-over-house-speaker-doesnt-really-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax, The GOP Fight Over House Speaker Doesn\u2019t Really Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frelax-the-gop-fight-over-house-speaker-doesnt-really-matter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After three rounds on Tuesday, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy did not secure the 218 votes needed to become Speaker of the House. It was the first occasion in a century that the ballot went to multiple ballots. Now, \u201cfight spills into a second chaotic day,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mccarthy-faces-difficult-day-confirms-110226242.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK1vhIl1KCezGLxNNFYBU4GeqDMZ6Nb4CuYbSRzoB_IK6Fvp-y8Xiezm4OxvnXwKIsQr6c8JwUDXMvrTK7wgP1aS-r_XJOjK0eCPU9ljjX3pd1cxJ7vW3iY1FZSXTpEBDgMGfOg4oAWHdLWMHrYQms7Lwk3oIaoJwYZ2ypJZJ990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a> ABC News. There\u2019s <em>a lot<\/em> Washington is full excitement \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because the GOP takes a few more days to get their leadership vote, it is unlikely that any of the voters in the area of zero will have a change of mind or political affiliation. There is nothing particularly dysfunctional in disagreeing on this question. McCarthy isn\u2019t an admiral or preordained by the Lord to be speaker, so this isn\u2019t \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/03\/mccarthy-house-speaker-votes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mutiny<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s just a vote. A battle for leadership is a better example of democratic dynamics than traditional lockstepping. This type of parliamentary battle would be completely normal in other democratic countries.<\/p>\n<p>However the vote ends up, though, it won\u2019t matter much because neither side in this battle has anything special or particularly consequential to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about saving the country and getting somebody that\u2019s going to cut and get us on a financial path of solvency,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/mccarthy-enters-day-two-uncertainty-house-resumes-speaker-votes-rcna64154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> McCarthy supporter Ralph Norman. Guess what? Kevin McCarthy isn\u2019t Henry Clay. He possesses no extraordinary skill or vision that makes him uniquely qualified to stop the Democrats\u2019 next spending bill, much less \u201csave\u201d The country.\u00a0Insufferable is the ingenuity and sanctimony displayed by politicians who believe that the world needs their talents. You can venerate middling politicians by becoming a Democrat and throwing your hosannas to Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>These days, Republicans require more competency than any other thing. The American people voted to split government power \u2014 again. House Republicans have the governing mandate to monitor the executive branch. With a slim House majority, and the Senate and presidency in the hands of Democrats, the only requisite skill needed in a speaker is the ability to corral the party\u2019s factions to stop the opposition. How will you achieve consensus in a partisan vote to become a leader?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t accommodate a small group that essentially has you hostage, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here \u2014 we\u2019re not going to do it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/mccarthy-enters-day-two-uncertainty-house-resumes-speaker-votes-rcna64154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> Don Bacon, McCarthy booster Sure you can. This isn\u2019t the papacy. Is there any other conservative in Congress with basic skills who could bring together the party? McCarthy could go back to his roots as a congressman or a lobbyist, and the country would be exactly the same as it was before he left. McCarthy is as competent as any other member of Congress. However, he&#8217;s not as good as anyone in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the point? It&#8217;s not clear to me. Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert do not have a competing legislative agenda, or coherent philosophical positions. McCarthy went out of his way for placating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1794748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7118,6919,4004,6203,3653,4219,13197,5654],"class_list":["post-1794745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-doesnt","tag-federalist","tag-fight","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-matter","tag-relax","tag-speaker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}