Joe Scarborough Buries GOP Inability to Govern After McCarthy Ouster Sparks Pandemonium: ‘Absolute Chaos’

With Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House Speaker, Joe Scarborough tore into Republicans by holding it up as proof of their inability to govern the country.

Scarborough referred to the Wall Street Journal editorial board’s disapproval of the chaos that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and seven other Republican rebels gave rise to by siding with the Democrats for McCarthy’s historic removal. He particularly pointed to their takeaway that “The ouster captures the degraded state of the Republican Party in this era of rage.”

“It is amazing that the Republicans hold one branch of government. One branch of government, the House — half of a branch of government — and it’s just absolute chaos. Madness,” Scarborough said. “Perhaps you filed this one under, letting calmer heads prevail. But to go on a one-week recess, I’m sorry. You don’t have your you know what together, and you’re better than that.”

Jonathan Lemire noted how the House chaos clearly lies with the Republicans since Democrats all agreed to oust McCarthy, who “has been hanging by a thread for a while.”

“Matt Gaetz and others wielded this threat, the easy move to call for a motion to vacate to get what they wanted from McCarthy. And it was never enough,” Lemire said. “And now, the Republicans disappear. The House goes out of session for week. We’re only 40-odd days until the government runs out of funding again. So that just ups here the drama and also just the disarray and chaos brought forth by Republicans.”

Lemire also noted how McCarthy’s team told him that dealing with Gaetz’s faction “was like negotiating with terrorists and there was never any satisfying them.” Scarborough followed up on that by calling them “political terrorists without any demands.”

“We’ve been talking about how the Republican Party’s turned under Donald Trump into the party of gestures,” he said. “This is the ultimate gesture: shutting down the United States House of Representatives and sending out fundraising letters while you’re doing it when you have no path forward with 96 percent of the Republican conference is against you, and yet just 4 percent are able to shut down the House and then fundraise off of it.”

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