Fighting Fire With Fire

 So, a lot of people seem to be freaked out by Kevin McCarthy's craven capitulation to the wingnut right wing members of Congress in agreeing to reinstate an old rule allowing any member of the House to demand a vote of confidence in the speaker, bringing the workings of the House to a crashing halt any time they were threatened with legislation they didn't like, and potentially destroying the ability of the House to accomplish anything outside of the piggish actions they have promised.


Things can have unexpected consequences, however. As far as I have heard, nobody had considered the fact that this rule would be available to Democrats too.


Consider this scenario:  McCarthy has threatened to strip the greatest member of the current House, Adam Schiff, of all his committee assignments, in an act of revenge for the House doing the same thing (for very justified reasons) to the execrable traitor, Marjorie Taylor Greene.  In return, I would suggest, Schiff might decide to demand a vote of confidence on the speaker every time the Republicans engage in the abominable misuse of their power which we know it on their agenda.  


Or the task of making these objections could be shared among House members with secure seats.  Turnabout is fair play- I just have no confidence in the Democrats playing this kind of hardball, particularly in light of the fact that the mainstream press, which will largely ignore any Republican uses of this new rule, will portray the House Democrats as seditious monsters for doing the same thing.


Well, a guy can dream, can't he? 

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