Republican Tim Burchett described Nancy Pelosi as pretty successful as speaker and said he has doubts about the leadership of current incumbent Kevin McCarthy.
"We don't need someone just to say we've got 218 votes or whatever that jumps on the train after it leaves the station," Burchett said."We need some people, Speaker Pelosi, for instance, I'll give you; you know, I don't agree with her ever, hardly on anything, but she, she was pretty successful in her [tenure], and the way she did it was she put an issue out amongst her caucus.
After Collins described the remarks as a"rare compliment from a Republican for former speaker Pelosi," Burchett replied:"No, she's a friend of mine. Matt Gaetz is one of a small group of House Republican rebels who attempted to block McCarthy's election as speaker in January. The Florida representative has
Thomas Gift, a political scientist who heads the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, toldGift said:"Since the day he earned the speaker's gavel, Kevin McCarthy has been constantly doubling over backwards to keep his unruly caucus together. The real surprise surrounding the imploding discipline among House Republicans isn't that happening, but why it didn't happen sooner.
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