Expect the Republican House to be just like the speaker debacle: pure chaos

Legislatively, the Republican party seems primed to play the role of hostage-taker rather than lawmaker

The Republican party didn't exactly start 2023 hot out of the gate.

Despite a new House majority, the Republican members of Congress spent their first few days in office in an embarrassing protracted squabble over the speakership. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, who has spent the last few years assisting members of the extremist conspiracy-mongering Trumpian Republican radicals in their rise to power, found himself predictably on the receiving end of the extremist conspiracy-mongers, who wanted one of their own in charge as well as a series of rule changes. After largely capitulating to his party's lunatic fringe, McCarthy squeaked through on the 15th vote.