Moderates in both parties have been unduly passive, giving a few hard-right Republicans exceptional power.
The terms of the party cartel that govern the House meant that then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy wouldn’t bring a bipartisan bill to the floor for a vote.If there’s one thing everyone in the House of Representatives can agree on these days, it’s that they are mad.
It’s not as if better models don’t exist. Power in the Alaska legislature, for example, is shared by a coalition of moderate Republicans acting in tandem with Democrats. Something similar happened several years ago in New York — except it was a group of moderate Democrats breaking with the majority of their party to form a caucus that controlled the state senate in tandem with Republicans.First, given the current partisan makeup of the House, the speaker should clearly be a Republican.
But Democrats didn’t take the bait. As a result, there is no government shutdown, no Speaker McCarthy and, critically, no aid to Ukraine — even though most members of both parties support it.
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