Preciction. The House will get semi-reasonable leadership in August
For now the right wing crazies will win enough concessions that the Speaker who gets elected, be it McCarthy or someone else, will be unable to reign them in. That sets the nation up for a serious crisis when the debt ceiling must be raised during the Summer.
Most commentators have focused on how the tiny Republican majority sets up the craziest members of the Freedom Caucus to wield inordinate power through sheer unreasonable obstinacy. The relatively moderate Republican members of Congress are, virtually by definition, less unreasonable, so they are hesitant to recklessly throw their weight around, but they too now have significant leverage now, despite being relatively few in number, with Republicans clinging to a five seat majority in the House. They may be loath to pull the trigger on setting up a working bipartisan relationship with Democrats now, but when the full faith and credit of the United States Government is literally on the line, I predict they will feel differently.
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