Trey Gowdy is right. The House is basically ungovernable.

Found this to be one of the simplest explanations of the complex issues re: House Speaker.  Good to share with folks who can’t figure out why or why not Paul Ryan … why or why not someone from the Freedom Caucus … why or why not the most conservative guys who could win the job may not want the job.

Chris Cillizza writing at The Washington Post:

In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy (R) offered his honest — and correct — assessment of his party in Congress. Here’s the key bit:

I think the House is bordering on ungovernable right now. … Being speaker is a very difficult job. We need to have a family conversation and sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before that conversation starts. We’re getting close.

Now, Gowdy was explaining to Welker why he wouldn’t be interested in the soon-to-be vacant job as speaker of the House. But his reasoning is almost certainly why Paul Ryan isn’t jumping at the job either, despite basically every establishment Republican in the country urging him to do it.

The problem for Ryan, Gowdy and anyone else who is thinking about being speaker can be explained in a very simple math problem. Republicans currently control 247 seats.  There are, roughly, 40 Republican members — the vast majority of whom identify with the tea party-affiliated Freedom Caucus — who will vote against the wishes of leadership on almost any major measure unless the leadership adopts a very conservative stance. If you subtract 40 from 247, you get 207 — 11 votes short of what a speaker would need to pass a piece of legislation without relying on any Democratic votes.

Boehner was confronted with again and again during his time as speaker. He would hold firm on the preferred conservative outcome and refuse to budge in negotiations with the White House. But as deadlines drew near — and things like shutting down the government over a dispute over funding Obamacare loomed — Boehner would always advocate for talking to Senate Democrats and the White House in hopes of cutting the most advantageous deal possible.

There’s more at the link above, read it all.  I look forward to Tommy Dimsdale’s video from the GSP Republican Women meeting the other night, Mick Mulvaney also gave a great rundown of the present situation.

The bottom line is that the solution is not to merely put the guy with the highest scorecard rating in the position.  However, getting a popular person who will not change the process is a swap, not a change.  And the House needs change.

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