Calmes: House Republicans should stop following Netanyahu's chaotic example
LA TimesStanding united back in 2019: GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Cheney and Steve Scalise. On the other: House Republicans’ civil war over choosing a new speaker after last week’s mutiny against former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Given a bipartisan desire to speed U.S. aid to Israel, Republicans expressed urgency about selecting a consensus speaker to end the House’s paralysis. Sen. Tim Scott, supposedly the kinder, gentler Republican in the 2024 presidential field, wrote on social media Sunday morning: “Biden’s weakness invited the attack.” Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel, on Fox News, called the attack on Israel a “great opportunity” for Republicans to hit Democrats. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican and chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on CNN, “I look at the world out there and all the threats that are out there — and what kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we can’t govern, when we’re dysfunctional, when we don’t even have a speaker of the House?” He answered himself: “I think it sends a terrible message.” At least one Republican understands the warning for his party in Israel’s tragedy.
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