These two things are not the same
Despite what our media likes to pretend, both parties are not the same – not even close. The last four years alone should be testimony enough to this fact, as the GOP almost seems determined to disprove this concept on their own, by doing something more reckless nearly every week at this point.
It’s only been a week since the Republicans decided to oust their own speaker for the crime of reaching a compromise with the Democrats that would keep the government from shutting down and we’re roughly as close to getting a new House speaker as we were back then, with only two of the clown car candidates withdrawing themselves from consideration.
While this is continuing to play out with no end in sight, and a smattering of ridiculous political motives on the part of the GOP (a whole lot of them who think Donald Trump has a serious shot at being speaker), it took all of 10 minutes for the Democrats to rally around House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and renominate him for speaker.
There’s not a very good chance that this happens, of course, in that Democrats get five Republicans to vote for Jeffries, but he’s miles ahead of anyone that Republicans could possibly put in contention for the job. The fact that no Republicans are even trying to get concessions from Jeffries shows that they’re not actually serious about choosing a speaker either – and the fact that we don’t have one while they’re the majority party at a fairly pivotal time in world history, shows that they’re not serious about the job. Let’s vote them out in 2024.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making