The Kevin McCarthy Double Ironic Foul Up
This situation with the speaker of the house, when completely deconstructed turns out to be not only hilarious but strategically a complete foul up by Pelosi and the Democrats who had every opportunity in the world to throw a few votes to McCarthy long before he had to make a slew of concessions to the most right-wing of the Republicans.
This conciliatory move would have put him over the top and shown some grace on the part of the Democrats. Instead, they did as told and threw their votes to a symbolic Democrat candidate Hakeem Jeffries, a radical. What was the point of that?
The first irony was the fact that there was such a slim majority of Republicans in the first place. This was orchestrated by the Democrats and made it possible for 20 holdouts to put a stranglehold on the approval of McCarthy. Normally with a typical midterm majority of 40-50 seats the 20 holdouts would not matter. Pelosi herself got voted in with 20 dissenters.
So having orchestrated that, the mystery remains why didn’t the Democrats simply throw 20 votes (or all their votes) right away at McCarthy thus making sure no concessions were made to the extreme right wing? All the concessions are aimed at investigations of the Democrats, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden etc.
So what were they thinking? Were they merely showing off that they would vote as a single block of robots when told to? It’s obvious that no real strategy was employed by the Democrats except to eventually highlight that the Trump wing of the Republican party got its way. And Nancy Pelosi is praised as some sort of terrific Speaker-of-the-House. What a farce.
This conclusion, which stems from mere logic is typical of your No Agenda analysis, is hardly something you’ll ever get from the mainstream/corporate media which is lockstep with the Democratic party. The mere concept that Pelosi could screw this up so badly is unthinkable to them. They all followed the edict to mock the Republicans as a party in disarray and portray them as clowns instead of seeing the danger of what was occurring. Rubes.
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