Primarying Matt Gaetz and his band of troublemakers

When Matt Gaetz filed his ill-informed MTV, aka Motion To Vacate, he had a group of co-conspirators. It's time to end Gaetz's political career. It's time to primary his co-conspirators, his partners in crime, too. Then it's time to pick the next Speaker. Here's the list of traitors who voted against a stop-gap CR that would've cut spending and secured the Tex-Mex border, then voted to out Kevin McCarthy:

• Andy Biggs, AZ
• Ken Buck, CO
• Tim Burchett, TN
• Eli Crane, AZ
• Matt Gaetz, FL
• Bob Good, VA
• Nancy Mace, SC
• Matt Rosendale, MT

Of these 8, Buck and Mace have a reasonable streak in them, though they haven't always exercised the best judgment. Biggs, Gaetz, Good and Rosendale are spit-for-brains idiots with a history of getting 75%-85% of what they want, then saying that isn't enough. I don't know Burchett and Crane that well but they voted for Gaetz's chaos. That's enough to warrant them getting primaried. The good news is that these are conservative districts. Whoever wins the primary usually wins the general election. Primarying these malcontents is a low-risk option.

The title to Ben Domenech's article is perfect. The title is "Matt Gaetz catches the car," which is what happened. He doesn't have a plan for unifying the House GOP. I'm not sure he wants that. Mr. Domenech wrote this:

Gaetz invited chaos, convinced enough Republicans to go along with him, and now has to live with the consequences. A Hakeem Jeffries speakership might be perfect for him. To rail against the Washington uniparty of 208 Democrats and eight Republicans who dashed hopes of impeachment and any fiscal hedge against everything the Senate wants could prove quite profitable, even if you were one of those eight.

During Gaetz's interview with Laura Ingraham, Gaetz said that this fight wasn't personal:

That's a pile of BS. This is closer to the truth:

As a student, I was taught by brilliant professors about the dynamics of legislative decisions and negotiation, the nooks and crannies of process and debate, the give and take, the game theory at play. Then, when I arrived on Capitol Hill, within a month I discovered that a certain member had completely changed his position on a piece of legislation — a 180-degree reversal from where he stood before. When I asked an aged veteran legislative aide about why this was possibly the case, he looked at me, bemused, and asked — "He’s getting a divorce. Which lobbyist do you think his wife slept with? This is personal, not politics."

The scales fall from the eyes and you find the personal, in this case, the personal grievances of one Matt Gaetz, the man with the slick hair from Hollywood, Florida, who today achieved something that has not even been seriously attempted in a century-plus: the ouster of the speaker of the House, in this case Kevin McCarthy.

Matt Gaetz isn't changing. He sees himself as holier-than-thou. In his mind, everyone else is flawed while he stands flawless. This isn't about policies. It's personal. While it's correct to not take Gaetz seriously as a policymaker, he's still a troublemaker who needs to be dealt with. The same thing is true with Rosendale and Biggs.