Sunday 1 October 2023

What's with this guy Matt Gaetz?

The only way to avert a shutdown in the United States was for the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, to reach a compromise deal with the Democrats. It was inevitable, even though it was really really last minute. Joe Biden signed the deal literally minutes before the midnight deadline. Yet Matt Gaetz, Republican congressman from Florida, hard-right politician, doesn't believe in compromise. He would prefer to have a ruinous government shutdown than give an inch to the Democrats. And because McCarthy was forced to compromise with the Democrats to get the votes to keep the federal budget going until November, Gaetz's only response is to vow to brim down NcCarthy and to unseat him as Speaker of the House. That's what he will be aiming at next week. He will no doubt gather around him a band of similarly extreme Republicans to end McCarthy's speakership. Where is the leadership in the Republican party? Why don't they tell Gaetz to get a life and move on? The US has avoided a shutdown and that surely should be viewed as good news for the nation and good news for Congress. So Gaetz should be a grown-up and stop acting like a very spoilt child.

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