Most of them are either Full Kraken or scared of their own voters.
Kevin McCarthy is lost. He’s blurting his inner monologue to anyone who will listen, careening back and forth between MAGA monstar and establishment elephant—depending on whom he last spoke to. The House Republican conference he has been charged with leading is a frazzledrip inside a clusterfuck wrapped in a cocoon of anthrophobia. They are as coherent a unit as the 2001 Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring Aerosmith, Britney, N’Sync, Nelly, and Mary J. Blige.
Many of the “representatives” McCarthy wants to “lead” are simultaneously deathly afraid of their voters and personally bewildered as to whether the party is going to return to zombie Reaganism, pivot to populist nationalism, launch “I’m not a suit” Barstool conservatism, or just go the whole hog on Q.
That’s why today Republicans voted 200-to-11—in a public ballot—to keep the assassination-supporting, school-shooting-denying, coup-backing, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim bigot in her position on the House committees for education and labor and the budget, while the same caucus voted 145-61—in a secret ballot—to keep impeachment-supporting, truth-telling, anti-conspiracy neocon Liz Cheney as conference chair the night before.
How does any of this make sense?
https://thebulwark.com/understanding-the-house-republican-clusterfrick/