Subject: Re: Matt Gaetz cost his party dearly
Right now, Scalise doesn't look like he can get to 217. If that's the case, the GOP won't have a Speaker this week - pushing the earliest possible vote into next week.

Nah, it'll be Jim Jordan and Scalise will throw his support behind him.

The right thing to do is to vote in favor of the resolution - but if you're not going to do that, walking out is better than giving a floor speech against the resolution.

Except that by walking out, they're expressly turning their backs on the resolution...and letting everyone know where they stand.

Jayapal will vote yes on a resolution expressing support for Israel because she's pragmatic enough to know what either a 'no' or a 'present' vote means (plus her constituents will vote for her at a 95% rate back home in Seattle anyway, so a 'yes' vote won't cost her anything even though she'll do it with her fingers crossed behind her back). But there's a 0% chance that some of the more virulent CPC members would vote 'yes' and instead will vote 'Present' - Tlaib, AOC, Bush, Bowman, etc.

The masks are off, and the faces behind them ain't exactly pretty.