Is Jim Jordan Sabotaging Scalise?

Yep. He is

Hastily written post. I’m sitting in my hotel room in DC, rushed here to do CNN for the Speaker vote… that… didn’t happen. All good, but in some discussions with my former colleagues, frustrations are boiling over. In the past, a vote would be taken “in the family” for speaker, and the winner would then enjoy the support of everyone on the floor.

The idea of voting for someone different on the floor is a new phenomenon, and it’s terrible for the functioning of the house. It empowers the legislative terrorists who simply force their will on everyone by their superpower…shamelessness. Fame is the new currency, and you can become famous by torching the place.

There is a lot of suspicion, which I share, that Jim Jordan is encouraging the holdouts so that everyone relents and puts him in the Speakership. He said he would nominate Scalise, but if he was truly in…he would publically announce that he would not take a further nomination for Speaker, and encourages everyone to back Steve. But he won’t, because he is sabotaging him.

All of this would be generally inside baseball except, there are real consequence in Israel and Ukraine. Empower McHenry to bring those bills to the floor, get it done, and deal with the drama afterwards. It’s what most want, but 12 or so house members have forced their will. The voters need to end their careers next November.