Opinion: House Republicans' real choice: Kevin McCarthy for speaker or chaos
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich comments on the Republican Party taking back the House in the midterm elections on 'Hannity.'House RepublicansBecause of the narrow majority, a handful of House Republicans saw an opportunity to blackmail the rest of the conference and force their will by refusing to vote for the conference’s choice for speaker.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Most of the non-McCarthy members have already agreed that the majority must rule, and McCarthy is close to having the votes to become speaker on Jan. 3.However, it only takes five to cause chaos. That would mean five are attempting to coerce 214 other members. In his first inaugural address in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln warned against the inevitably destructive precedent this behavior sets us. As Lincoln put it:"If a minority will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which, in turn, will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.
The small hardline group needs to find some reasonable requests to allow them to end up supporting the House GOP Conference’s candidate for speaker.
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