Is the Speaker Fight Good or Bad?

we'll see...

If you check the articles at RealClearPolitics you can see that there is a significant difference of opinion on the question of the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

McCarthy Consumed by MAGA Politics He Helped Push Stephen Collinson, CNN
Fight Over Speaker Is How Democracy Should Work Tucker Carlson, FOX News
Right-Wing Nuts in House Are Right About One Thing Alexander Sammon, Slate
McCarthy Spectacle Shows How GOP Will Damage America Jill Lawrence, USAT
What's Happening on Capitol Hill Is Long Overdue Neil Patel, The Daily Caller While the GOP Implodes, the Democrats Are United Scott Dworkin, Newsweek Ferment of Change Lurks in Republican Chaos Oren Cass, Financial Times

So, you tell me. Is the fight over the Speakership a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? Good or Bad for America? Or the GOP? Or the Democrats? Or “our democracy?” Or what?

Who knows?

At ConservativeTreeHouse, Sundance says:

According to Politico, the Congressional Leadership Fund (team McCarthy) has come to an agreement with the Club for Growth Fund (team not McCarthy) and worked out a deal the representatives may be permitted to support.

Listen: Congress is the cockpit where the interests battle for their share of the loot. I get the impression that the battle for the loot is getting tougher and tougher.

That’s why, I presume, Congress no longer passes legislation and appropriations by regular order. Instead, in the Nancy Pelosi years, everything — everything — came out of the Speaker’s office.

Now, I presume that the rebels that are resisting the McCarthy speakership are fighting for more power for committee chairmen — so that ordinary mortals can get their fingers on the loot.

Presumably, therefore, the process of divvying up the loot is not as relaxed as it used to be.

And I suppose, since Rule One is that the one thing that really gets people mad is when that check from the government fails to show up, the problem is that, since the whole point of government is to share out loot, and the old loot doesn’t count, then various interests are amping up the fight for loot, every budget time.

Or something.

I guess, it doesn’t matter for ordinary mortals. Whatever happens, I’ll just be on the receiving end.