Latest news and live updates on the House vote on whether to oust Kevin McCarthy. The vote was prompted by a motion by Matt Gaetz after government funding disagreements.
Because the Speaker is elected by the majority. So the removal has to be by some part of that same group that put the Speaker there in the first place. That usually happens only when a schism appears within a party and part of being a well oiled political party is to prevent schisms forming.
Actual Republican leadership, like the organization that is the Republican party, not the folks that are part of that organization within the US House, has become a complete and utter cluster fuck of unmitigated magnitude to put it in insanely nice terms. Historically it took a lot of backbone to manage former Dixiecrat and Nationalist groups operating within the Republican party. Under Reince Priebus, long story short, all that fucking went out the goddamn window. And Ronna McDaniel, seeing the complete dumpster fire that is the Republican National Committee, decided the best thing to do was to bring TNT inside jugs of gasoline and see what happens.
I mean, there’s not really a whole lot of policy that happens anymore at the RNC, it’s mostly become a group that focuses on donor groups and arranging them in… whatever logic it is that they use for priority for promotion. Long standing policy has mostly been delegate to those groups and is largely outside the RNC at this point. Which brings up the question, what the fuck is the RNC even used for now?
With SuperPACs largely legal now and the pretense of a unified political party gone, the only thing that I can imagine the RNC is actually useful for anymore is that they’re enshrined in a lot of local law to allow them to be on the ballot, and that’s about it. But yeah, usually political parties have way more control over their group than this. Gaetz just randomly firing off at his own is evidence that the RNC has lost 100% of their power over their members and exists only as a means to funnel money into a group for exchange for a protected right by law to be on the ballot.
I’m surprised it’s the first time this has ever happened
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Because the Speaker is elected by the majority. So the removal has to be by some part of that same group that put the Speaker there in the first place. That usually happens only when a schism appears within a party and part of being a well oiled political party is to prevent schisms forming.
Actual Republican leadership, like the organization that is the Republican party, not the folks that are part of that organization within the US House, has become a complete and utter cluster fuck of unmitigated magnitude to put it in insanely nice terms. Historically it took a lot of backbone to manage former Dixiecrat and Nationalist groups operating within the Republican party. Under Reince Priebus, long story short, all that fucking went out the goddamn window. And Ronna McDaniel, seeing the complete dumpster fire that is the Republican National Committee, decided the best thing to do was to bring TNT inside jugs of gasoline and see what happens.
I mean, there’s not really a whole lot of policy that happens anymore at the RNC, it’s mostly become a group that focuses on donor groups and arranging them in… whatever logic it is that they use for priority for promotion. Long standing policy has mostly been delegate to those groups and is largely outside the RNC at this point. Which brings up the question, what the fuck is the RNC even used for now?
With SuperPACs largely legal now and the pretense of a unified political party gone, the only thing that I can imagine the RNC is actually useful for anymore is that they’re enshrined in a lot of local law to allow them to be on the ballot, and that’s about it. But yeah, usually political parties have way more control over their group than this. Gaetz just randomly firing off at his own is evidence that the RNC has lost 100% of their power over their members and exists only as a means to funnel money into a group for exchange for a protected right by law to be on the ballot.