“Sticks don’t work in this town,” said Representative Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, a McCarthy ally. They certainly don’t work for Republicans. Mr. Gaetz said on Tuesday that lawmakers should not give the post to somebody willing to sell “shares of himself to get” it. Carrots may have succeeded in winning Mr. McCarthy the speaker’s gavel. “He will have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straitjacket constructed by the rules that we’re working on now,” Mr. Gaetz said.

Source: Libya Today January 07, 2023 16:06 UTC