by Hugh Jackson, Nevada Current
October 5, 2023
House Democrats, including the trio from Nevada, who this week all voted to tell Kevin McCarthy “you’re fired” (or words to that effect), made an assortment of points, including but not limited to:
1) McCarthy is an untrustworthy buffoon
2) Republicans built this, it’s their problem
3) Getting rid of McCarthy offers the hope that House dysfunction will end and House Republicans will start governing responsibly.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus reiterated the first two points in a statement yesterday. McCarthy “has weakened our democratic institutions, gone back on his promises, called for a bogus impeachment inquiry, and brought us to the brink of a disastrous shutdown. It’s up to Republicans to get their own house in order.”
But there is little if any evidence in support of the third point – that things will somehow be better under a new Republican Speaker.
At the end of May, over objections from his party’s hard-right extremists, McCarthy put a negotiated debt ceiling measure on the House floor, so that Republicans and Democrats both would have a chance to vote on it. It passed with bipartisan majorities, and a default on the nation’s debt that would have cratered the economy was averted.
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