As Casey Stengel once remarked about the 1962 Mets: “Can’t anyone here play this game?”
Part of the game in Congress requires recognizing defeat before one takes the field — especially on high-profile votes. A good maxim for leadership would be: When it doubt, sit it out. And yet House Republican leadership took not just one but two votes last night on high-profile issues … and managed to embarrass themselves twice in the space of less than an hour.
Axios marvels at the incompetence:
Why it matters: Even in an era of ousted speakers and wild, daily internal disarray, Tuesday night’s back-to-back defeats for House Republicans were epic.
Zoom in: House Republicans were fuming and embarrassed after the twin defeats on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and military aid for Israel — a bill that was a GOP chess move against President Biden.
We were all…
