I am frankly baffled by his unceremonious dethroning this week at the hands of the grandstanding Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who successfully mutinied McCarthy along with seven fellow Republicans and every single Democrat present in the lower chamber.
In early January, as then-future and now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was in the midst of the political fight of his life, this column excoriated him as an "empty suit and a quintessential Swamp creature ... whose main lodestar is cutting deals and expending political capital in order to boost his own political fortunes."
As of this writing, that goal remains elusive. Gaetz claims to want reductions to top-level government spending, an end of U.S. taxpayer funding for the war in Ukraine, and much stronger security measures for our outrageously porous southern border. This concession seems to give away Gaetz's real game. Scalise has been a part of House Republican leadership since 2014; he is just as much a part of the Republican establishment on Capitol Hill as is McCarthy. Indeed, Scalise even disagrees with Gaetz's purported hard-line stance on continued funding of Ukraine.
Perhaps the most important aspect of this saga, in the midst of a bitter Republican presidential primary and in the lead-up to next fall's general election against a catastrophically unpopular octogenarian incumbent, is the political fallout. Maybe former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal had it right when he called on the GOP to "stop being the stupid party."
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