The Capitol Hill clusterfuck continues as Steve Scalise has just announced he's withdrawing from the Speaker's race. (Just a quick thought: Can you imagine how everybody would react if it was the House Democrats who were flailing around while the world erupted?)
All those corrupt Republicans in Louisiana who were probably rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of owning another Speaker must be mighty disappointed. And it's not the first time they've been let down by one of their own. Remember Bob Livingston? How quaint his exit seems today.
The chaos in the House is objectionable for a ton of reasons, but it was made particularly unseemly when Republicans questioned Scalise's health, or stepped outside their private meeting to complain that the Democrats needed to ride to their rescue, or even — a bare three hours ago — denied point-blank that Scalise would drop out. As Senator John Fetterman observed on The Late Show last night, Americans are not sending their best and their brightest to Washington.
So who's next? "Elsie" Stefanik? (Who still doesn't seem to be anywhere, by the way.) Tom Emmer? Kevin Hern? Gym Jordan, back from the dead? Or somebody nobody's mentioned yet? It's almost too scary to ask.
P.S. You have to assume that Elsie is too busy lobbying to be Benedict Donald's running mate, but you never know. It's dawned on us that if she had continued to be a valid and contributing member of the bipartisan caucus, and if she hadn't gone off the deep end these past six years, her name could be seriously floating as a consensus candidate with support from Democrats and a handful of Biden-district Republicans. Oh, well! We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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