This debacle has left him with only bad choices.
After a second day of three failed votes, the House of Representatives remained speakerless, memberless, and without rules on Wednesday evening. The mood in the chamber has moved from fascinated, to bored, to salty and sarcastic. The next stage could be heavyThat means Kevin McCarthy, who dropped out of the speaker’s race in 2015, but this time has vowed to stick around for as many ballots as it takes, needs to start making hard decisions—or have them made for him.
looking directly at McCarthy seated about 10 feet away. “The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, Sir, you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw.” Democrats, who have taken to the old classroom murmur of “It was a rare one. The smile McCarthy wore in the old days of speaker balloting had mostly dissipated on Wednesday. What can he do?
Consider that McCarthy has oriented every moment of his life for the last seven years towards becoming speaker. He’s embraced Trump, fallen out of favor with Trump , and gone on down to Mar-a-Lago to beg for forgiveness. He put in his time as majority leader under Speaker Paul Ryan and as minority leader for the last four years. He raised hundreds of millions of dollars to win back the House, and won it.
on the Armed Services Committee. I asked South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman to name the change that could bring him to throw his support behind McCarthy.“One of the things is, is he willing to shut the government down rather than raise the debt ceiling?” Norman said. I noted that the consequence of not raising the debt ceiling is, not a government shutdown. He said that that’s why “you need to be planning out now what path you’re gonna take now, to trim government.”is not a realistic concession.
So what are McCarthy’s options if there are no more concessions to break the impasse, and even the combined pressure from fellow members, the press,
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