Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Don’t lower the bar for the incoming GOP House majority
This fantasy Republican Party would also develop a plan to fight inflation. This would not include measures that make inflationcutting taxes for the rich, growing the deficit and repealing cost containment plans to limit prescription-drug price gouging. Likewise, after complaining for years that the U.S. labor participation rate is unacceptably low, responsible Republicans would hold serious hearings to explore the reasons for the problem and concrete proposals to fix the problem.
The GOP would also strengthen its internal organization. It’s easy to forget that during the past 30 years or so , Democrats have had orderly leadership transitions and relatively tight control of their left flank. No Democratic speaker has had to bargain away the threshold for a, thereby rendering their leadership unstable. Republicans are obligated to get their act together.
Finally, competent GOP leadership would deal with the ethics debacles on its own side. That would follow theby House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her caucus in 2010, when they eased out Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, amid multiple ethics scandals. In 2006, then-Minority Leader Pelosi also took the lead role in forcing Rep. Alan B.
, “Pelosi is one of four speakers who did not have an ethics scandal, and, of the four, she is the only one to push for and pass extensive ethics reform. … When she ultimately took over in 2007, she championed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, extensive reform that tightened lobbying, campaign finance and ethics laws.”
Simply because House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is weak and his members so crazed does not mean voters should lower the bar for assessing their tenure. Republicans have an obligation to govern, address the problems they ran on, respect the other party’s committee appointments and focus their oversight on legitimate issues. If they cannot manage that, voters have every reason to kick them out in two years.
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