No. of Recommendations: 7
Kuo's take:
"We already know how this story in the House ends, no matter who the Speaker is. The GOP will arrive back at political equilibrium and pass the budget that the Senate already approved, or they will cause havoc until the voters force them to do so. Because that outcome is more or less preordained, Democrats are best off letting the dysfunction play itself out in the Republican side of the chamber, and stand ready to step in to vote for bipartisan bills, not GOP Speakers, to actually benefit the country.
<Dems should> Let the Republicans sort out their own mess, and don't get involved....
This approach has its advantages. Democrats are supposed to support Democrats and to vote against Republican extremists. This way, the messaging is cleaner. Honor and principles are preserved.
The crisis in government right now is one of the GOP's own making. If they cannot resolve it, the country will suffer pain, but that has a way of clarifying who has committed it. The solution to that pain is to vote them out next November, and not to give them lifelines so that they can claim they were effective leaders.
