About the Speaker impasse detailed in the previous post, Steven Hayward of Power Line has a comment that may be relevant.
The impasse over selecting the next Speaker of the House will end very soon for a simple reason: since no members can be officially sworn in until there is a Speaker, it means none of them can draw a paycheck. That will tend to concentrate the mind of many House members.
I doubt he’s correct. A paycheck delayed a few days shouldn’t mean much to these guys, gals and whatevers, They mostly manage to get rich while in office and they don’t do it from their federal paychecks.
The twenty or so holdouts are ideologues of one stripe or another. That motive tends to make mundane matters like paying the rent pale into insignificance.
Plus, long term nobody will actually lose any money. Like federal employees during a so-called “government shutdown” they’ll eventually get every penny even if it is delayed a week or two.
