Opinion | Nevermind the House GOP drama — pay attention to what they’re proposing – By J. Patrick Coolican (Minnesota Reformer) / Oct 4, 2023
The drama this week over U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy losing his speakership is another instance when we gawk at the mosh pit instead of listening to the lyrics.
I’ll grant that the spectacle of a dysfunctional political party running the U.S. House is a sight to behold, but we ought to pay attention to what they are actually proposing, because it’s quite revealing.
A scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, the D.C. right-leaning think tank, called last week’s brush with disaster the “Seinfeld shutdown,” because like Larry David’s vision of his sitcom, it was about nothing.
The far-right Republicans who are driving us into these governing crises, the argument goes, are having more of a temper tantrum than anything. As the Washington Postput it:
