A few folks on Dkos and elsewhere have been expressing some deep concerns over the House Speaker fight. How will we pass a budget? How will we adjust the debt ceiling? To them I say: don’t worry. The world will not turn upside down. At least, not because of this.
Yes, we still have to pass a budget eventually. Yes, we have the debt ceiling thing coming up sometime this summer.
But you see, Kevin McCarthy needs to get nearly 100% of Republicans to vote for him for Speaker to get the seat, because no Democrats are voting for him at all. In contrast, presumably all Democrats will vote in favor of passing the budget and approving the debt ceiling, meaning that only a handful of Republican votes will be needed to get that done. While in the current climate it seems like there are no rational Republicans left that don’t want to burn the government to the ground and dance in the ashes, the truth is there should be enough “moderate” Republicans that are in vulnerable districts that won’t want burning the economy to the ground on their resume come next election cycle, or whose corporate donors don’t want to see the global economy take a nose dive because Matt Gaetz and MTG are in a bad mood, to get the votes to pass those things.
In the meantime, every day the GOP engages in knife fights with a couple dozen diehard Never Kevins instead of deciding which committee is going to start the first investigation into Hunter Biden’s Penis, is a good one, and every day these lunatics keep the headlines showing the American Public that they can’t even govern themselves let alone a country, is also good. Relax. We got this. And maybe something weird will happen and we’ll end up with Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, which would absolutely be entertaining as hell because of all the MAGA heads exploding across the country over winning the House but losing their precious payback investigations.