Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
By any fair measure, the House Republican conference has seen better days. This was, after all, the week in which a sitting GOP House speaker faced a successful revolt launched by members of his own party, leading to the first such ouster in American history. A day later, a New York Times analysis argued persuasively that House Republicans “have become ungovernable.” Politico published a related assessment, under a headline that read, “The House GOP is a failed state.
But Jordan’s rival bid, now backed by Trump, raises the prospect of a divided caucus — or more to the point, an even more divided caucus. In fact, one House Republican, California’s Tom McClintock, described the situation as an “impasse,” and issued a written statement overnight that concluded, “The only workable outcome is to restore Kevin McCarthy as Speaker under party rules that respect and enforce the right of the majority party to elect him.
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