GOP is already at a stalemate over Donald Trump’s senile cabinet debacle
After Donald Trump’s babysitters went to all the trouble to convince the Republican Senate to allow Trump’s cabinet picks to be confirmed as recess appointments, Trump went and blew it by nominating someone who was never going to get through the process quietly. Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General can only be described as a senile move, given how obvious it was that it wasn’t going to work as intended.
Now the Gaetz nomination has already brought the GOP to an internal stalemate. Republican House leader Mike Johnson, apparently at Trump’s behest, has publicly announced that the House Ethics Committee report on Gaetz should not be released. But multiple influential Republican Senators are demanding that the report must be released.
How will this play out? It’s tough to predict. But these Republican Senators are publicly staking themselves to wanting the report released, and they know it’ll be hard for them to flip flop on this later. So we’ve already got the Republican House and Senate wasting their time, bandwidth, and political capital on an internal battle over the Gaetz nomination, at a time when they’re supposed to be trying to flex their muscles against us. Good.
The longer this battle over Gaetz drags on, the uglier it gets, and the more headlines it generates, the more it’ll weaken Trump, weaken Mike Johnson, and weaken the Republican Senate. All Trump had to do was make an Attorney General pick that the Senate was comfortable letting slide through as a recess appointment. Instead Trump did what senile people do: he blew it in obvious fashion.
