You just can’t make this up. Eight Republicans have joined with every Democrat in the House to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. The math on this is quite simple: two hundred republicans voted to keep Kevin McCarthy. Eight voted to remove him. This means that over 96% of Republicans in the House wanted to keep McCarthy while slightly less than 4% decided he had to go. Obviously, there was zero change the 4% could win over the 96%, so they gleefully accepted the help of every Democrat in the House. House Democrats are always glad to watch Republicans self-destruct.

This is exactly what has been happening in our society, with devastating results. The tiniest minority of people are now demanding all decisions be made solely regarding their own selfish interests. They do not care about the impact of these decisions on anyone else. They succeed only because they convince others, mostly Democrats, to embrace the extortion.

At some point, soon and very soon, the ignored majority is likely to provide a very public display demonstrating why this is never a good idea. One would think that the self-destruction of the Bud Light brand would have provided an important clue, but some people never learn.

The Grace Hopper Celebration’s annual conference and career fair is designed to help women advance their careers in computing. That is a good idea, since it represents an opportunity for women to gain attention from prospective employers. But this year there was a problem. The problem is that the definition of woman was embraced to include transgender and even none-binary individuals. Apparently, several men, actually a lot of men, seized the day. All they had to do was enroll as non-binary, which of course requires zero biological differentiation. They swarmed over the convention in some cases shoving real woman out of the way in their pursuit of those coveted positions.

Men Overrun Grace Hopper Women In Tech Conference By Registering As Non-Binary – OutKick

“When you create a stupid system, don’t be surprised when people exploit it.”

I am not a huge fan of Kevin McCarthy. He has been a lot better than people like Paul Ryan or John Boehner. But this situation has little to do with his actual performance. It is rather the decision by eight individual Republicans who have decided that the Conservative Universe revolves around them and only them and they don’t even pretend to listen to anyone else. This is not a recipe for getting things done, it is a recipe for disaster. Earth to these eight clowns, if every Democrat in the House, all desperate for Speaker Hakim Jeffries, embraces your plan, rethink your plan. They are not on your side.

Who knows what will happen here, but one thing is certain. If Republicans cannot find a way to unite behind common interests, when necessary, they are doomed to fail. Democrats seldom make that mistake. They are always united. Usually wrong, but always united. Republicans should have learned this from the Revolutionary war. “We either hang together or we hang separately.”

My prediction is that Republicans will unite behind someone. If not Kevin McCarthy, someone even stronger. The first assignment for the next Speaker of the House will be to guarantee this never happens again. It is obvious that Democrats united to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. This was a deliberate action on their part to interfere with Republican Party leadership. Don’t be surprised to see Republicans return the favor. And, if you are one of the eight, it might be wise to start considering alternative career paths.

Hopefully wiser heads will prevail, with or without Kevin McCarthy. Letting the inmates run the institution is not exactly a winning strategy. Instead, this has instantly put the entire conservative agenda behind the “8 ball”. The good news is that in the long run, they may have united Republicans as never before. United to stop the great eight from running the show in the future. Equally united in in the knowledge that Democrats have zero interest in playing fair. Otherwise, the Republican agenda will be caught behind the 8 ball, which is not a good place to be.

TDM