May 9, 2024
Longtime readers may have noticed I don’t spend much time on the parties’ bomb throwers in Congress. Part of this has to do with not wanting to reward bad behavior, but more of it has to do with these people having comparatively little power. The only reason I bring them up now is to drive the latter point home. Yesterday’s failed motion to vacate the speakership was a bad, emperor-has-no-clothes moment for the bomb throwers. Hopefully, future bomb throwers take heed.