Republican contestants throw their hats into the ring for the next Speaker of the House.

But does it really matter?

Rhonda Santis pours resources into Iowa and Joe Biden explains how to confront intransigent

conservative family members.

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today. American meat delivered. Okay. So the house race to replace the speaker is on.

Again, the recriminations have only begun at this point because the fact of the matter is this was a stupid fight that achieves nothing.

It's all about incentive structures.

As I suggested yesterday on the show, it is not about Kevin McCarthy being a bad speaker of the house.

The truth is it wasn't even about Paul Ryan being a bad speaker of the house.

You make a better case that it was Boehner being a bad speaker of the house.

But the reality is that in all of these situations,

these folks have been ousted largely because of divided government

and then unrealistic expectations from other members of the political caucus,

who either have unrealistic expectations or who are fibbing to their own crowd.

See, for politicians, the intensive structure is always to tell your own people the things they want to hear. And what your people want to hear is if they vote for you, they will get the sun, the moon, and the stars. If they vote for you, you will be able to give them everything that possibly have wanted. And then when that doesn't materialize, you have a couple of choices. One is, you could be honest with them. You can say, listen, we did the best that we could. we got the most that we can. The problem there is that you're going to be outflanked by someone else who's going to come along and promise them the sun, the moon and the stars. So you can either rely on the intelligence of your voting base, which you could do. And I think the most honest and best politicians do do that. They say, listen, we were shooting for 100% and instead we got 80%. We got 60%.

That's all we could get because that's the reality of life.

But it does put you in the political danger of being outflanked by someone who's going to promise you everything in the world.

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