Two years ago today. An insurrection on the Capitol. Two years later. Those insurrectionists are still trying to destroy America. None of them have faced any consequences and are freely going about their chaos causing business.
#January6th
I’m not the first person to notice this, but if #McCarthy had grown a pair, done his job as House Minority Leader, and sanctioned the pro-coup members of his caucus instead of actively sucking up to them, they wouldn’t be in Congress now, looking for new and exciting ways to humiliate him.
How do you figure?
It seems to me their voters would have voted them in regardless of anything McCarthy might have done.
Heck, such people might have worn the sanction as a badge of honor to get even more excitement out of their constituents.
I doubt either would have been particularly successful.
More and more these days we are seeing very well-funded campaigns end up losing, so that doesn't assure too much tipping of the scales, and also I think the type of people who vote for the circus acts don't even know what a committee assignment is or else they would probably not vote that way in the first place.
And heck, at this point those members are gaining so much influence in this game that their constituents back home might be cheering them on!
I really think the strategy should have been to push them out to the corner so that their voters are more likely to get bored with them going into the future rather than directly fighting them.
That's the mud wrestling they thrive on.
@volkris
For one thing, he could have used his considerable power with the NRCC to support their primary opponents. Even Repubs in deep-red districts get fed up with being represented by circus acts.
For another, he could have asked Speaker Pelosi to screw with their committee assignments, office suites, etc. I’m sure she’d have been delighted to oblige—and might have had some suggestions of her own.