Thursday marks the first anniversary of House Republicans’ defining moment this term: they’d spent 15 rounds of voting to install just nine months earlier. The decision to wasn’t something that makes for a great campaign ad — not for GOP members trying to earn second terms. But there’s that makes a great case for granting Republicans another shot at the majority next year.
And yet, that’s exactly what House Republicans are doing right now, taking a break from the hard work of failure to . Irrespective of what an abject catastrophe the last two years have been, are trying to convince Americans that they deserve to be the majority in the 119th Congress, as well. It’s a level of audacity that should be disqualifying, not rewarded with another two years of, at best, mediocrity and, at worst, enabling the end of democracy in a second Trump administration.
While McCarthy’s undignified boot from the speakership was a lowlight, the House majority covering itself in glory. With only a lame-duck session awaiting after the election and another spending fight along with it, no major legislative push is planned to take advantage of those final weeks. Accordingly, the 118th Congress will go down in history as having in modern history.
The best thing you could say for the House the last two years is that it kept the lights on in Washington — barely. There have been as Republicans spent more time than debating with Democrats in the Senate and President Joe Biden in the Whit.
