From Pelosi's effective leadership to Chaos.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/01/from-pelosis-effective-leadership-to.html

The first Republican majority in the House in four years, in its opening exercises conducting what has been a routine and relatively peaceful transfer of power for most of the nation's history, is showing us that it is no longer capable of governing. Extremists, while not making up nearly as large a majority as their leader wants us to think, has still paralyzed the party, mainly because the rest of it has still decided it is too weak and conciliatory to stand up to the orange menace and take their party back. So, while the extremists aren't participating in the negotiating and deal-making that is an essential part of a representative democracy, they are also helping to make their party's chances of holding this majority and winning the White House in 2024 slimmer every day.

This is a prelude to the next two years of Republican house leadership. Even with the gerrymandering that is essentially the only reason they actually got their thinnest of majorities this mid-term, this is going to turn into an electoral disaster. And in all honesty, I don't think the party can survive this in one piece. It is in "disarray" (I love to use that term!) and the tendency of Republican extremists to avoid any kind of deal making or compromise and stick to their "my way or the highway" way of doing things will cause a fracture that can't be repaired.

[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The comparison could not be more stark. . . . . nt