No. of Recommendations: 3
Sure about that? Your party has some serious problems when it comes to this kind of thing:
Yep. Just look at the example you gave. 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. Heck, it's better even than silently voting no. Those folks had the benefit of seeing how badly efforts to express support for Palestinian interests are landing right now. And it's helping them land more on the "least bad" side of things, where their first impulses might have led them to do something far dumber.
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. Which gives CPC Democrats even more time to see how this plays out, coordinate amongst themselves, work out some of their own divisions, and lay the groundwork for how they can handle a tough vote without causing themselves too much damage. And that's just on Israel - Gaetz' defenestration of McCarthy looks like it will cost them two weeks of their legislative majority and put them on the back foot when it comes time, again, to deal with a government shutdown.
Heckuva a job, Gaetzy.
