Representative Kevin McCarthy keeps falling short in his bid for House Speaker as the Republican holdouts offer no alternative and Democrats laugh.

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All righty, well, we are now in the midst of day two of Kevin McCarthy's attempt to become House Speaker.

And here's the wonderful thing about politics.

If you watch it as a tragedy, it's really sad.

But if you watch it as a comedy, it's actually super duper funny.

And right now, what is happening?

It's funny mainly because the stakes are so low. Let's be real about this. The stakes for the speakership of the House are incredibly low at this point, because all the leader of the House basically has to do is say no to most of Joe Biden's proposals. There are certain things that the Speaker of the House, no matter who it is, is not going to do. Those things include an interminable government shutdown with no end. I know that there are some people who think that if you get a conservative enough leader in the speakership of the House, that person is just never going to sign a check ever again as Speaker of the House. That is not going to happen because that would be political suicide. This has been proven over the course of the last 10 years, repeatedly, overtly, over and over and over again.

So that's not going to happen.

Then there's the question is whether Kevin McCarthy is going to surrender more often than another alternative conservative leader.

This would posit the presence of another alternative conservative leader.

Now, if you could provide me a name, then maybe I'd consider it.

Since you can't provide me a name, and since the only viable alternatives have already

endorsed Kevin McCarthy, it makes it very difficult to see exactly what the strategy of the

people who are holding out on McCarthy is. Now, if they were holding out to gain some sort of

procedural recompense, if they were holding out in order to get some sort of surrender from

McCarthy on key issues that matter, that might make sense as well. Last night on his show, for example, Tucker Carlson suggested that Kevin McCarthy should promise to the holdout that he's going to release all of the material from the January 6th commission. Okay, fine. I mean, if that's what they wanted, that would be totally great. Sure. I'd love to see the thousands of hours of footage that are being hidden. I would love to see all of the interview context.

Sure, why not?

Tucker suggested that, for example, Thomas Massey be given charge of some investigative powers. Okay, sure, why not? But that's not the actual demand. Here is the problem. No one knows what the demands are. I know this because I'm speaking to many Congress people, like pretty much every hour now. And what they are saying is that behind closed doors, the people who are making the demands of McCarthy aren't actually making any material

demands. They don't even know what they want. What they are enjoying is the spectacle of being

at the center of the political conversation, sort of in the same way that the squad on the left side

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